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54 articles available in total starting from 18/05/2008. Last article published on 18/04/2024.

Lea Najjar • Director of Kash Kash

Interview: Lea Najjar • Director of Kash Kash

“It was necessary to constantly refocus on this microcosm and find a way to express something bigger through it”

The winner of Best Documentary Film at this year’s First Steps Awards talks about her approach to the singular world portrayed in the movie and its protagonists  

29/09/2022 | /Qatar/Lebanon/Germany

Wissam Charaf • Director of Dirty, Difficult, Dangerous

Interview: Wissam Charaf • Director of Dirty, Difficult, Dangerous

"I didn't want it to be one hour and a half of social film on the suffering of people"

VENICE 2022: The French-Lebanese director talks to us about his second feature, a love story involving an immigrant from Ethiopia and a Syrian refugee set against the backdrop of racial discrimination  

01/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Review: Dirty, Difficult, Dangerous

Review: Dirty, Difficult, Dangerous

VENICE 2022: Wissam Charaf depicts the romantic idyll of two migrants trapped in Beirut in a minimalist tale exuding charm and truth, beneath a light-hearted exterior  

31/08/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Review: The Devil's Drivers

Review: The Devil's Drivers

Daniel Carsenty and Mohhamed Abeguth's documentary on smugglers making a living in Occupied Palestinian Territories is a truly wild and emotional ride  

22/03/2022 | Thessaloniki Documentary 2022

Review: Shall I Compare You to a Summer’s Day?

Review: Shall I Compare You to a Summer’s Day?

BERLINALE 2022: In this experimental take on Shakespeare’s sonnet, Mohammad Shawky Hassan lets a group of men recount the pitfalls they have encountered in their love lives  

22/02/2022 | Berlinale 2022 | Forum

Review: See You Friday Robinson

Review: See You Friday Robinson

BERLINALE 2022: Ebrahim Golestan and Jean-Luc Godard, New Wavers Iranian and French, embark on an email round-robin conversation in this amusing documentary from Godard collaborator Mitra Farahani  

21/02/2022 | Berlinale 2022 | Encounters

Review: Fiasco

Review: Fiasco

In his very personal, atypical coming-out dramedy, Lebanese filmmaker Nicolas Khoury explores fears and common family dynamics on his road to maturity  

10/12/2021 | Cairo 2021

Review: Costa Brava, Lebanon

Review: Costa Brava, Lebanon

Debuting filmmaker Mounia Akl explores environmentalism in Lebanon through the lens of one defiant family, in this beautifully shot drama  

15/11/2021 | Thessaloniki 2021

22 projects taking part in the 17th Francophone Co-production Meetings

22 projects taking part in the 17th Francophone Co-production Meetings

The new edition of the event, which will give pride of place to Lebanon, will unspool in Brussels from 10-12 November  

08/10/2021 | Production | Funding | Belgium/France/Luxembourg/Switzerland

Review: The River

Review: The River

As far as “slow cinema” goes, the latest offering from Lebanon’s Ghassan Salhab just crawls along  

09/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Competition

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