Tag: Nadine Labaki
Swimming Home | 2024 International Film Festival Rotterdam Review
Marriage Story: Justin Anderson Serves Up An Enigmatic Challenge Is His Feature Debut
A marriage in crisis cooks under the summer sun in filmmaker Justin...
2024 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Justin Anderson’s Swimming Home
Our most anticipated feature debut films for this year is indeed ready but it'll be dropping in 2024 instead. Perhaps a fest that is...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #52. Justin Anderson’s Swimming Home
Swimming Home
In a surprising field of many first-time works on our list, this year's most anticipated directorial debut goes to commercials director Justin Anderson...
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...
Video Interview: Nadine Labaki – Capernaum
There is a sequence in Nadine Labaki's Capernaum where Zain (who now belongs to the Antoine Doinel film canon) proactively attempts to save the...
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...
The Conversation: Best Foreign Language Oscar Contenders
While we’ve yet to see what will take home the Golden Lion out of Venice this September, many of the contenders for what will...
2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 11 – Nadine Labaki’s Capharnaum
The Lebanese writer-director-actress started in the Director's Fortnight with Caramel in 2007, moved up to the UCR section with Lebanon 2011's with Where Do...
Live from Cannes: 2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel – Meet the Jury!
Celebrating our seventh year, for the 71st edition of Cannes, we decided to switch things up for our Cannes Critics' Panel. First, we expanded...
The Conversation – Cannes Predictions VI: Middle East Repped by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Jafar Panahi & Hiner Saleem
We can anticipate a handful of items from the Middle East, Africa, and India will populate several sidebars, if not the competition itself. Turkey,...
The Conversation: Top 10 World Cinema Filmmakers Missing in Action (Class of ’17)
As we get ready to wrap up the cinematic offerings of 2017, it’s time to revisit those auteurs we haven’t heard from for a...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #138. Rio, I Love You
Rio, I Love You
Director: Stephan Elliott, Fernando Meirelles, José Padilha, Paolo Sorrentino, Vicente Amorim, Guillermo Arriaga, Im Sang-soo, Nadine Labaki, Carlos Saldanha, Andrucha Waddington
Writer(s):...