Tag: Kaouther Ben Hania
2024 Cinema Eye Honors Awards: Sam Green’s 32 Sounds Lands Best Picture – Oscar Nom Next?
Sam Green's 32 Sounds took the top honor of Best Feature at the 2024 Cinema Eye Honors Awards. Will this acknowledgement help raise the...
2024 Lumières Awards: Anatomy Of A Fall, The Animal Kingdom, Last Summer & Disco Boy Land Noms
Naturally, all focus and the most nominations would go to Justine Triet’s Anatomy Of A Fall (it leads in six categories) but this did...
2023 European Film Awards: The Zone of Interest, Fallen Leaves & Anatomy of a Fall Grab Most Noms
The European Film Academy revealed the nominees for the main categories of the 36th European Film Awards and while Radu Jude's Do Not Expect Too...
Four Daughters (Les filles d’Olfa) | Review
Leave Them to Heaven: Ben Hania Experiments with Form in Anguishing Roleplay
For her sixth feature, Four Daughters, Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania takes a...
The Key to My Art: Kaouther Ben Hania to Direct “Tu ne feras point d’images” in 2024
After premiering her Les Filles d’Olfa aka Four Daughters (which was nabbed by the Kino Lorber folks) in the Palme d'Or competition this past...
2023 TIFF: Rustin, The Holdovers, Memory, The Beast, NYAD, Fingernails, Hit Man & The Royal Hotel Get Confirmed Itineraries
With one announcement we got confirmations for films that will either exclusively play in Toronto or will hit either Telluride and/or Venice just prior....
2023 Cannes Film Festival: Nicholas Bell & Eric Lavallée’s Top 10
We arrived. We watched. We reviewed. We lost a lot of sleep and we battled the ticketing system. Combining our efforts to bring you...
Kaouther Ben Hania’s Four Daughters – 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 3
Another first-timer in the comp, Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania came to Cannes in 2017 for the Un Certain Regard section selected Beauty and...
You BETcha!: Kaouther Ben Hania, Ramata-Toulaye Sy, Alice Rohrwacher, Wang Bing & Glazer Top Contenders for the Palme d’Or
Yesterday the Cannes Film Festival opened with Maïwenn’s Jeanne du Barry (marking the return of Johnny Depp in the French language no less) but...
Live from Cannes: 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel – Meet the Jury!
Last year Ruben Östlund took home the big daddy of film prizes winning his second Palme d'Or and this year he gets to be...
2023 Cannes: Glazer, Ceylan, Rohrwacher, Haynes & Ramata-Toulaye Sy Competing for the Palme d’Or
A surprise Wim Wenders project (Perfect Days), a rare directorial debut Ramata-Toulaye Sy (Banel et Adama) and a Wang Bing film (Jeunesse) are part...
2023 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – 24 Palme d’Or Hopefuls
It's official folks! The drop date has been confirmed. There'll be a couple of films that trickle in a bit after the announcement is...
2020 Venice Film Festival: Michel Franco, Mona Fastvold, Jasmila Zbanic & Konchalovsky in Comp
Mona Fastvold, Emma Dante and Chloé Zhao were tipped for the comp months ago, but today heavyweights such as Jasmila Zbanic, Malgorzata Szumowska (Never...
Introducing Our Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: A Precursor (Picks 300 to 151)
As we wave au revoir to a year in cinema that gave us the Berlinale Golden Bear winner Synonyms, the Cannes Palme d'Or winner...
Beauty and the Dogs | Review
Body Talk: Ben Hania’s Troubled and Troubling Portrait of Sexual Assaul
Perfectly encapsulating, perhaps to the heights of exaggeration and exploitation, why victims of sexual...
2017 IFP Week: Latest from Falardeau, Menon, Cassidy & Shatzky, Clea DuVall & Franka Potente Among Co-Prod Market
Tucked in between spaces occupied by Venice and Toronto and NYFF, is the indispensable IFP Week. A summit slash showcase for true independent visions...