Tag: Yomeddine

Yomeddine | Review

Natural Selection: Shawky Shackled by Straight Story   Tackling notions of identity in both a figurative and transfigurative sense, Yomeddine teeters ever so lightly into fable terrain...

2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 2 – Abu Bakr Shawky’s Yomeddine

Rare are the films from debut filmmakers to crack the Competition line-up and perhaps the first title to be funded by a Kickstarter campaign, Yomeddine...

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,...

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Interview: Jihan K. – My Father and Qaddafi

Selected Out of Competition for the Venice Film Festival,...

Interview: Eva Victor – Sorry, Baby

Eva Victor’s Sorry, Baby is a sharply observed, emotionally...

Interview: Óliver Laxe – Sirāt

In his debut You Are All Captains (2010), Óliver...

The Secret Agent | Review

Mischief, Thou Art Afoot: Filho Captivates with Seductive, Furtive...