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21 articles available in total starting from 22/01/2024. Last article published on 17/03/2025.

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Najiba Noori, Rasul Noori • Director and co-director of Writing Hawa

Interview: Najiba Noori, Rasul Noori • Director and co-director of Writing Hawa

“It’s not just my mum's story; it’s also the story of so many other women who have been through the same experiences”

The director and co-director, also siblings, describe the shared intentions behind their film, a personal look at their mother’s life and three generations of women in Afghanistan  

27/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Review: Writing Hawa

Review: Writing Hawa

Najiba and Rasul Noori leverage their own subjectivity to create a tremendously powerful work on emancipation, freedom and opportunity for women in Afghanistan  

26/11/2024 | IDFA 2024

Review: Sugar Island

Review: Sugar Island

VENICE 2024: Afrodiasporic artist and filmmaker Johanné Gómez Terrero looks at tradition and spirituality through the eyes of a pregnant teenage girl  

13/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

Johanné Gómez Terrero • Director of Sugar Island

Interview: Johanné Gómez Terrero • Director of Sugar Island

"Slavery and sugar are intrinsically linked"

VENICE 2024: The Afro-diasporic director whisks the viewer away to the sugar-cane plantations where a young woman gets pregnant too early  

10/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

Sandhya Suri • Director of Santosh

Interview: Sandhya Suri • Director of Santosh

"We spent the days researching with the police and the evenings bringing that reality into the script"

CANNES 2024: The British-Indian filmmaker discusses her fiction debut, a story of a woman who goes from being a housewife to a widow to becoming a police officer  

27/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Un Certain Regard

Review: Santosh

Review: Santosh

CANNES 2024: A new police recruit assumes the post of her deceased husband in Indian filmmaker Sandhya Suri’s impressive crime-drama  

21/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Un Certain Regard

Nada Riyadh, Ayman El Amir • Directors of The Brink of Dreams

Interview: Nada Riyadh, Ayman El Amir • Directors of The Brink of Dreams

“These girls challenge traditions”

CANNES 2024: The Egyptian filmmakers follow an all-female street-theatre troupe that is, and always was, uncompromising  

18/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Critics’ Week

Review: The Brink of Dreams

Review: The Brink of Dreams

CANNES 2024: Egypt’s Nada Riyadh and Ayman El Amir follow a group of young women as they challenge longstanding norms by starting an all-female street-theatre troupe  

17/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Critics’ Week

Paula Iglesias, Marta Gómez • Directors of Flying Hands

Interview: Paula Iglesias, Marta Gómez • Directors of Flying Hands

“In order to tackle any project, we need to find a strong personal connection with it”

The Spanish filmmakers show the work of a woman who is able to fight against societal obstacles and avoid the discrimination afflicting the hard of hearing in her native Pakistan  

03/05/2024 | Hot Docs 2024

Review: In the Land of Brothers

Review: In the Land of Brothers

The debut feature from Iranian filmmakers Raha Amirfazli and Alireza Ghasemi skilfully weaves together an edifying fiction in three parts, about Afghan refugees in dramatic circumstances  

23/01/2024 | Sundance 2024 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

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