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73 articles available in total starting from 16/03/2005. Last article published on 08/09/2025.

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

Meryam Joobeur • Director of Who Do I Belong To

Interview: Meryam Joobeur • Director of Who Do I Belong To

“I like the idea of very real emotions set in a world that feels a bit surreal”

BERLINALE 2024: The debuting director delves into her film, in which something very real – and very tragic – co-exists with mysticism  

24/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Competition

Review: Who Do I Belong To

Review: Who Do I Belong To

BERLINALE 2024: Meryam Joobeur makes an accomplished first feature film with a thrilling and atmospheric story boldly blending realism, oneirism, the family microcosm and jihadi themes  

22/02/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Competition

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