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77 articles available in total starting from 30/05/2013. Last article published on 18/11/2025.

Review: The Stories

Review: The Stories

Abu Bakr Shawky retells the tumultuous history of Egypt in the second half of the 20th century in an audience-friendly way, as seen from the perspectives of a couple and an extended family  

18/11 | Black Nights 2025 | Competition

CineGouna Funding awards best projects, including European co-productions

CineGouna Funding awards best projects, including European co-productions

El Gouna Film Festival’s lab and pitching platform handed prizes to projects from the MENA region with European participation  

28/10 | El Gouna 2025

Yunan takes home the Arab Critics’ Awards for European Films

Yunan takes home the Arab Critics’ Awards for European Films

Ameer Fakher Eldin’s film has received the prize presented for the seventh time by European Film Promotion and the Arab Cinema Center  

20/10 | Festivals | Awards | Europe

The Cairo International Film Festival readies its 46th edition

The Cairo International Film Festival readies its 46th edition

The oldest film gathering in the MENA region will welcome European productions and co-productions, and present Hungary’s Ildikó Enyedi with the Career Achievement Award  

15/10 | Cairo 2025

Three films shortlisted for the Arab Critics' Awards for European Films

Three films shortlisted for the Arab Critics' Awards for European Films

Eva Libertad's Deaf, Georgi M Unkovski's DJ Ahmet and Ameer Fakher Eldin's Yunan vie for the award given out by a jury of 100 film critics from 16 Arabic-speaking countries  

07/10 | Festivals | Awards | Europe

Review: Cotton Queen

Review: Cotton Queen

VENICE 2025: In spite of its title, Suzannah Mirghani’s impressive debut, following a Sudanese girl assessing her future on a plantation, avoids any fluff  

03/09 | Venice 2025 | International Film Critics’ Week

Suzannah Mirghani’s debut, Cotton Queen, set to world-premiere in the Venice International Film Critics’ Week

Suzannah Mirghani’s debut, Cotton Queen, set to world-premiere in the Venice International Film Critics’ Week

The German-French-Palestinian-Egyptian co-production tells the story of Nafisa, a teenage girl growing up in a cotton-farming village in Sudan  

25/07 | Production | Funding | Germany/France/Palestine/Egypt

Morad Mostafa • Director of Aisha Can't Fly Away

Interview: Morad Mostafa • Director of Aisha Can't Fly Away

"I asked myself why, in Egyptian cinema, we don't have any films about non-Egyptians characters"

CANNES 2025: The Egyptian filmmaker talked to us about the origins of his debut feature, centred on an African migrant in Cairo  

24/05 | Cannes 2025 | Un Certain Regard

Review: Aisha Can’t Fly Away

Review: Aisha Can’t Fly Away

CANNES 2025: Morad Mostafa crafts a debut feature that’s cinematically familiar in its festival aesthetic but is let down by a surface-level story despite its weighty themes  

23/05 | Cannes 2025 | Un Certain Regard

Aisha Can’t Fly Away becomes the first Egyptian film in Un Certain Regard since 2016

Aisha Can’t Fly Away becomes the first Egyptian film in Un Certain Regard since 2016

Morad Mostafa’s debut feature follows the eponymous 26-year-old immigrant and caregiver navigating violent tensions in the Cairo neighbourhood of Ain Shams  

18/04 | Production | Funding | Egypt/France/Germany/Tunisia/Saudi Arabia/Qatar/Sudan

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