Tag: Abu Bakr Shawky
2025 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Un Certain Regard
Last year, the Un Certain Regard section had several gems. Caméra d'Or jury prized Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel's Armand and the UCR jury of Xavier...
2023 TIFF: Patricia Arquette, Mehdi Fikri, Ninna Pálmadóttir & Molly Manning Walker Line Up Discovery Programme
With the exception of a trio of titles including the big Un Certain Regard winner in Molly Manning Walker's How to Have Sex, this...
Yomeddine | Review
Natural Selection: Shawky Shackled by Straight Story
Tackling notions of identity in both a figurative and transfigurative sense, Yomeddine teeters ever so lightly into fable terrain...
2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 2 – Abu Bakr Shawky’s Yomeddine
Rare are the films from debut filmmakers to crack the Competition line-up and perhaps the first title to be funded by a Kickstarter campaign, Yomeddine...
Live from Cannes: 2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel – Meet the Jury!
Celebrating our seventh year, for the 71st edition of Cannes, we decided to switch things up for our Cannes Critics' Panel. First, we expanded...
The Conversation – Cannes Predictions VI: Middle East Repped by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Jafar Panahi & Hiner Saleem
We can anticipate a handful of items from the Middle East, Africa, and India will populate several sidebars, if not the competition itself. Turkey,...
