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,...

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London Calling: 1-2 Special Addicted to Harris Dickinson’s ‘Urchin’

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Daniel Tantalean & Ryan Bobkin Among Sundance Institute Names 2025 Producers Lab Fellows

Daniel Tantalean and Ryan Bobkin are part of the...

A New Michel Franco Film Set for 2026 Launch?

“I already shot it and I’m editing now.” While...