Tag: Sara Ishaq

2026 Marrakech Intl. Film Festival: Ben’Imana, Congo Boy, House of the Wind & A Day in the Life of Jo: Chapter Phaedra in Competition

The year’s final major film festival has unveiled its lineup, and the 23rd Marrakech International Film Festival is serving up a cinephile’s feast of...

The Station | 2026 Cannes Film Festival Review

No Man’s Land: Women Wage Resistance in Ishaq’s Wartime Debut Yemenis director Sara Ishaq approaches an examination of life during wartime in her native country...

2026 Cannes: Sara Ishaq, Blerta Basholli, Marine Atlan, Zou Jing & Félix de Givry in Critics’ Week Line-Up

The radiant Ava Cahen topper of La Semaine de la Critique since 2022 gives us eleven reasons to want to explore the section that...

2026 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Un Certain Regard

Introduced in 1978 by Gilles Jacob, the Un Certain Regard sidebar typically presents around twenty films championing distinctive styles and unconventional storytelling. In recent...

2025 Marrakech Film Festival: New Projects by Scandar Copti, Mounia Akl & Amjad Al Rasheed at the Atlas Workshops

Before the Marrakech Film Festival unveil their 2025 line-up, we have learned the films that are the make up of the Atlas Workshops (November...

2025 Final Cut In Venice: Sara Ishaq’s ‘The Station’ & Saeed Taji Farouky ‘Standing at the Ruins’ Among Selections

Erige Sehiri's Under the Fig Trees, Asmae El Moudir's The Mother of All Lies, Amjad Al Rasheed's Inshallah a Boy and Scandar Copti's Happy...

2024 Eurimages: Maryam Touzani, Emily Atef, May el-Toukhy & Kaouther Ben Hania Land Coin

The results of the third Eurimages Project Evaluation Session of 2024 have been unveiled and among the batch of filmmakers we find the likes...

2024 Venice Gap-Financing Market: Ulrike Ottinger, Aga Woszczyńska, Shahrbanoo Sadat, Erige Sehiri & Theo Court Among Selected Projects

The projects for the upcoming Venice Gap-Financing Market have been unveiled (27 feature-length fiction) and there'll be several listed here projects that we'll discuss...

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Ken Russell’s The Devils – 2010 Fantasia International Film Festival

Iconic director Ken Russell was in town to receive a lifetime achievement award from Fantasia for his 50-plus years in the business, a career that has spawned many genre classics including Altered States, Gothic, and The Lair of the White Worm. But it was the little-seen and hard to find The Devils from 1971 that proved to be Russell's most controversial work, and Fantasia managed to snag a copy to be screened on Russell's big night. In the video, Russell discusses the true story behind the film and receives his award with the grace befitting one of the great filmmakers of all time.

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