Tag: Tawfeek Barhom

2026 Sundance: Amandine Thomas, Nash Edgerton, Cristina Costantini, Liza Mandelup & Tawfeek Barhom Among 54 Selected Shorts!

Fifty-four short films (and not all world premieres) were selected from a whopping 11,480 submissions to be part of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival....

Interview: Tawfeek Barhom – I’m Glad You’re Dead Now (Short)

From Tarik Selah's Boy from Heaven (2022) to the recent Jonathan Millet's Ghost Trail (2024), Tawfeek Barhom has the kind of face that stays...

Ghost Trail | Review

The Executioner's Song: Millet’s Stabbing Debut Looks at How Control Moves Beyond Borders If a Syrian doesn’t find himself in Syria does he still make...

2025 Cannes Film Festival Winners – Competition [Video]

The jury of Juliette Binoche, Alba Rohrwacher, Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia, French-Moroccan writer Leïla Slimani, thesps Halle Berry and Jeremy Strong, South Korean auteur...

2025 Cannes Film Festival: Jafar Panahi’s ‘It Was Just an Accident’ Wins the Palme d’Or

He won Venice. He won the Berlinale. He now wins the Palme. With strong competition from the likes of Kleber Mendonça Filho, Oliver Laxe...

Cairo Conspiracy | Review

You Gotta Have Faith: Saleh Explores Corruption of Institutions in Procedural Thriller “Power is a double edged sword. Sometimes it cuts the hand that wields...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #52. Terrence Malick’s The Way of the Wind

The Way of the Wind Terrence Malick turns to Jesus for what will stand as his tenth narrative feature The Way of the Wind (which...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #51. The Last Planet – Terrence Malick

The Last Planet In all likelihood, we’re perhaps being wishful thinkers suggesting Terrence Malick will be unveiling his next project, The Last Planet only a...

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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.