Tag: Georges Schoucair

Interview: Mounia Akl – Costa Brava, Lebanon

Arriving at TIFF after having premiered at the Venice Film Festival, first-time Lebanese filmmaker Mounia Akl who actually penned the screenplay with Clara Roquet...

Memory Box | 2021 Berlin International Film Festival Review

Analogue Chronicles: The Past is Present in the Latest Memory Exercise from Hadjithomas & Joreige A veritable remembrance of things past catalyzes the semi-autobiographical narrative...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #85. Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joriege’s Memory Box

Memory Box It’s been over a decade since the last narrative feature from Lebanese directors Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joriege, but they’re back with fourth...

Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness | Review

Killer Ratings: Bakhshi Brings Reality Television Gimmickry to Morbid, Potential Levels To err is human, to forgive divine---or so we’ve come to accept as a...

Rafiki | Review

Let’s Be Friends: Kahiu Dares to Question Kenyan Conservatism Social conventions always require such power and resistance that brave individuals must engage in a continuous...

Top 50 Most Anticipated American Independent Films of 2019: #40. Rania Attieh/Daniel Garcia’s Initials S.G.

Initials S.G. Rania Attieh and Daniel Garcia sanguinely moved into production in January of 2018 with their fourth feature film, Initials S.G. A wink to Serge Gainsbourg, the...

2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #38. Rania Attieh & Daniel Garcia – Initials S.G.

Recently featuring their film at the American Film Festival's US In Progress in Wroclaw, the team of Rania Attieh and Daniel Garcia look to...

2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #2. Oualid Mouaness – 1982

He might be a first time feature filmmaker, but Oualid Mouaness, a Lebanese short film helmer firmly transplanted in the US has been patiently building...

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