Tag: Toufik Ayadi
Fuori | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
Hoosegow Girls: Martone Pays Delicate Tribute to Goliarda Sapienza
“Never refuse to see the unpleasant aspects of life,” wrote Goliarda Sapienza in her widely...
Interview: Sofia Alaoui – Animalia
When the balance of the universe is disturbed, the hierarchy of nature's totem can be reconfigured. If the earth's creatures are more closely attuned...
2023 TIFF: Ladj Ly’s Les Indésirables to World Preem in Toronto
Unless Venice pulls the carpet from underneath them, Ladj Ly won't following Golden Lion comp preemed/penned Athena by Les Indésirables (aka Bâtiment 5). Instead,...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #60. Sofia Alaoui’s Animalia
Animalia
A directorial debut we've been heavily anticipating since we came across her masterful Sundance’s Grand Jury Prize short, French-Moroccan filmmaker Sofia Alaoui (who was...
Saint Omer | Review
Parallel Mothers: Diop Explores Monstrousness and Motherhood in Provocative Courtroom Drama
For her narrative feature debut Saint Omer, Alice Diop builds an agonizing and elegant...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #109. Ladj Ly’s Les Indésirables
Les Indésirables
One of the last major projects to move into production in '22 and on this list is Ladj Ly's sophomore film with the...
Ahed’s Knee | Review
Kneedful Things: Lapid Highlights Complex Conflicts in Indignant Screech
The entirety of Ahed’s Knee, the fourth film from Israel’s Nadav Lapid, is formatted to aggravate...
