Tag: Cinema of Egypt

Seeking Haven For Mr. Rambo | 2024 Red Sea Intl. Film Festival Review

First Blood: Khaled Mansour’s Debut Follows A Man Ready To Fight For The Fate Of His Dog In First Blood, John Rambo is a quiet...

East of Noon | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review

Noon Gloom: Elkoussy Mounts Shadowy, Allegorical Fantasy An industrial wasteland outside of a specific time or place provides the backdrop for Hala Elkoussy’s ingenious, but...

Video Interview: Ayten Amin – Souad

Egypt's official submission for the 'Best International Feature' category at the 94th Academy Awards is Ayten Amin's Souad, which received the official Cannes 2020...

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...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #79. Positive School – Nabil Ayouch

Positive School French-Moroccan filmmaker Nabil Ayouch will have his seventh feature Positive School ready in 2019. The French-Moroccan production has been backed by Ali N’ Productions (Morocco)...

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Interview: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud – Persepolis

The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.

Interview: Eivind Landsvik – Low Expectations | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

Exploring themes of mental health, emotional recovery, companionship, and...

Interview: Sandra Wollner – Everytime | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

One of the discoveries of this year's Cannes Film...