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55 articles available in total starting from 19/05/2014. Last article published on 24/05/2025.

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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

Erige Sehiri • Director of Promised Sky

Interview: Erige Sehiri • Director of Promised Sky

"In everyday life, we hide things, we don’t tell people everything, we don’t show everything"

CANNES 2025: The French-Tunisian filmmaker explains the intentions which fed into her second fiction feature film which revolves around three migrant women brought together by circumstance in Tunis  

15/05 | Cannes 2025 | Un Certain Regard

Review: Promised Sky

Review: Promised Sky

CANNES 2025: Erige Sehiri wins viewers over with an incredibly human film, placing focus on three women from sub-Saharan Africa living in Tunis and developing a growing awareness of the world  

14/05 | 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

Review: Where the Wind Comes From

Review: Where the Wind Comes From

Amel Guellaty's feature debut is a vibrant portrait of youth caught between tradition and the restless desire for freedom on the outskirts of Tunisia  

27/01 | Sundance 2025 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Amel Guellaty • Director of Where the Wind Comes From

Interview: Amel Guellaty • Director of Where the Wind Comes From

“Road movies mostly use handheld cameras and natural light, but I wanted to go somewhere else that takes on the rules of the imagination”

The Tunisian writer-director talks about blending the road-movie format with a free-spirited coming-of-age tale set across different parts of the country  

27/01 | Sundance 2025 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Review: The Vanishing

Review: The Vanishing

Karim Moussaoui’s film follows a privileged young man in Algiers who starts to break at the seams, but its bland narrative and lack of stakes drag the story down  

10/12/2024 | Marrakech 2024

Review: L’Aiguille

Review: L’Aiguille

Abdelhamid Bouchnack shines a light on the sensitive subject of intersexuality in Tunisia, experienced as a source of shame to be washed away through surgical intervention on newborns  

02/12/2024 | Turin 2024

Review: The Bridge

Review: The Bridge

Walid Mattar's modest yet lovely comedy is a cautionary tale about getting what you wish for  

26/11/2024 | Cairo 2024

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