Tag: Nadim Cheikhrouha

Saint, Camera, Action!: Kaouther Ben Hania Frames a Divine Rebellion in ‘Mimesis’

Fresh off winning the Grand Jury Prize in Venice for The Voice of Hind Rajab (read review), Kaouther Ben Hania has shifted directly to...

The Voice of Hind Rajab | 2025 Venice Film Festival Review

In a Child’s Name: Ben Hania’s Grueling Portrait of Genocide It’s the responsibility of artists to use their platforms as a mechanism to speak truth...

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...

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...

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Interview: Alireza Khatami – The Things You Kill

For his second feature film, Toronto-based Alireza Khatami tackles...

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A Poison Tree: Khatami Deconstructs the Psychoses of Patriarchy For...