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62 articles available in total starting from 18/05/2008. Last article published on 09/01/2025.

Massoud Bakhshi  • Director of Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness

Interview: Massoud Bakhshi • Director of Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness

"The world is torn between a rich minority that wants everything, and a majority that has nothing"

Iranian filmmaker Massoud Bakhshi discusses Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness, a majority European production recognised in Sundance and on its way to the Berlinale  

10/02/2020 | Sundance 2020 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Review: Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness

Review: Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness

In his second feature, a largely European majority production, Iranian filmmaker Massoud Bakhshi creates a redoubtable and thrilling TV procedural with a female touch  

27/01/2020 | Sundance 2020 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Mehdi M Barsaoui and Sami Bouajila • Director of and actor in A Son

Interview: Mehdi M Barsaoui and Sami Bouajila • Director of and actor in A Son

"We’re dealing with a real filmmaker here"

We met up with director Mehdi M Barsaoui and actor Sami Bouajila on the occasion of their film A Son scooping the Cineuropa Prize during Brussels Mediterranean Film Festival  

09/12/2019 | Cinémamed 2019

Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness to compete at Sundance

Yalda, a Night for Forgiveness to compete at Sundance

The film by Iran’s Massoud Bakhshi, a French majority production staged by JBA and sold by Pyramide, will have its international premiere at Park City as part of the World Cinema Dramatic Competition  

06/12/2019 | Production | Funding | France /Germany /Luxembourg /Switzerland /Iran /Lebanon

Review: Ibrahim: A Fate to Define

Review: Ibrahim: A Fate to Define

Lina Al Abed's first feature-length documentary mixes the investigative and the personal in a story about the unknown destiny of her father  

16/09/2019 | Toronto 2019 | TIFF Docs

Review: 1982

Review: 1982

Lebanon’s Oualid Mouaness makes his debut with a stirring tribute to the innocence of a child who witnesses the Israeli invasion of Beirut in June 1982  

11/09/2019 | Toronto 2019 | Discovery

Review: All This Victory

Review: All This Victory

VENICE 2019: Ahmad Ghossein’s debut narrative feature is a one-location movie looking at the psychology of war  

03/09/2019 | Venice 2019 | International Film Critics’ Week

Review: A Son

Review: A Son

VENICE 2019: Mehdi M Barsaoui’s tense debut about a marriage and a country in crisis is hugely satisfying  

31/08/2019 | Venice 2019 | Orizzonti

Colette Naufal | • Director, Beirut International Film Festival

Interview: Colette Naufal | • Director, Beirut International Film Festival

“The purpose of the festival is to bring arthouse films to the audience”

Colette Naufal chats to us about the Beirut International Film Festival’s selection process and its Public Square section  

20/05/2019 | Euro Film Fest

Wanuri Kahiu • Director

Interview: Wanuri Kahiu • Director

Interview

CANNES 2018: Kenyan filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu talked to us about her film Rafiki, presented in this year's Un Certain Regard section  

22/05/2018

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