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Who Do I Belong To | 2024 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review

Return of the Soldier: Joobeur Explores Ghosts of War Matriarchs confronted by their radicalized children have slowly and painstaking formed a cinematic subgenre of...

2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Meryam Joobeur’s Motherhood

After thinking Motherhood might drop at a major film festival in 2023, we are now inclined to think that Meryam Joobeur might actually go...

A Bond That Breaks: Meryam Joobeur’s “Motherhood” Readying For Festival Launch in ’23

Pretty much a done deal for a major film festival launch in 2023 and sitting high up on our most anticipated list of directorial...

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La petite dernière (The Little Sister) | Review

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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.