Tag: Mohamed Hefzy

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...

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...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #80. Hany Abu-Assad’s Huda’s Salon

Huda’s Salon Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad heads into his eighth feature with Huda’s Salon, a based-on-a-true-story nightmare which was forced to halt production twice due...

Luxor | Review

Hotel Spell: Durra Explores the Tenuousness of the Present Through Romance of the Past She hasn’t quite lost that loving feeling, which seems to be...

Video Interview: Zeina Durra – Luxor

The soaked in history backdrop of Egypt serves as a reminder that the past is sometimes more present than one can anticipate and while...

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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...