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65 articles available in total starting from 16/03/2005. Last article published on 24/05/2025.

EXCLUSIVE: Poster and first clips for Venice Orizzonti entry Aïcha

EXCLUSIVE: Poster and first clips for Venice Orizzonti entry Aïcha

The new film by Mehdi M Barsaoui, the director of A Son, follows a young woman who seizes her chance to start a new life, but everything is soon compromised  

14/08/2024 | Venice 2024 | Orizzonti

Review: Red Path

Review: Red Path

Lotfi Achour portrays the psychological impact of trauma within a politically charged landscape after a jihadist attack shatters a young boy’s life  

13/08/2024 | Locarno 2024 | Cineasti del Presente

Emma Benestan • Director of Animale

Interview: Emma Benestan • Director of Animale

"There are some films that have healed me and helped me over the course of my life, and I think that's why I feel the urge to make movies"

CANNES 2024: The French-Algerian director tells us more about her modern western, about a 22-year-old woman who has to carve out a niche for herself in a male-dominated world  

03/06/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Critics' Week

Review: To a Land Unknown

Review: To a Land Unknown

CANNES 2024: Mahdi Fleifel’s second feature is a migrant drama steeped in empathy, boasting an uncompromising lead performance by Mahmood Bakri  

25/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Directors’ Fortnight

Mahdi Fleifel • Director of To a Land Unknown

Interview: Mahdi Fleifel • Director of To a Land Unknown

“I’m always intrigued by what it means to have no place where you belong”

CANNES 2024: The Palestinian-Danish director takes on the melancholy of exile as two Palestinian cousins get stranded in Greece  

24/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Directors’ Fortnight

Review: Jim’s Story

Review: Jim’s Story

CANNES 2024: Karim Leklou lights up a magnificent and poignant film by Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu, about the long trajectory of a complex paternity  

22/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Cannes Premiere

Review: Animale

Review: Animale

CANNES 2024: Emma Benestan delivers a modern western and metaphorical fantasy film about a woman who has to find her place in a male-dominated world  

22/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Critics’ Week

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

Review: Diaries from Lebanon

Review: Diaries from Lebanon

BERLINALE 2024: The efforts to live a relatively normal life amidst the unstable realities of Lebanon are at the heart of the socially engaged documentary by Myriam El Hajj  

26/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Panorama

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