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204 articles available in total starting from 06/05/2010. Last article published on 09/09/2025.

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: East of Noon

Review: East of Noon

CANNES 2024: In her sophomore feature, Hala Elkoussy crafts a chaotic folktale set in a bizarre theatre company ruled by a childish tyrant  

22/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Directors’ Fortnight

Saïd Hamich Benlarbi • Director of Across the Sea

Interview: Saïd Hamich Benlarbi • Director of Across the Sea

“I have lived through the experience of exile”

CANNES 2024: In his new film, the French-Moroccan director salutes the dreamers and those who never truly feel at home  

18/05/2024 | 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

Hala Elkoussy • Director of East of Noon

Interview: Hala Elkoussy • Director of East of Noon

“Art has to be pertinent”

CANNES 2024: The visual artist-turned-director brings a satirical bite to the festival, as she shows generations that clash, hoping for a better life  

17/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Directors’ Fortnight

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: Meeting with Pol Pot

Review: Meeting with Pol Pot

CANNES 2024: Rithy Panh's highly personal style of fiction is a new variation on his cinematographic quest to shed light on the Cambodian genocide  

16/05/2024 | Cannes 2024 | Cannes Premiere

Review: We Are Inside

Review: We Are Inside

In her remarkable, intimately autobiographical documentary, Lebanese director Farah Kassem finds the political in poetry and infuses politics with the poetic  

18/04/2024 | Visions du Réel 2024

Shaima Al-Tamimi  • Producer

Interview: Shaima Al-Tamimi • Producer

“The process of making documentaries requires wearing various hats, but what stands out is its therapeutic quality”

The producer from Qatar, a guest country of this year's edition, explains why producing documentaries is a deeply personal journey for her  

21/03/2024 | Emerging Producers 2024

Nelson Makengo • Director of Rising Up at Night

Interview: Nelson Makengo • Director of Rising Up at Night

"After making my short film, I realised there was a need to tell a longer story together with the protagonists"

BERLINALE 2024: The Congolese filmmaker delves into his portrait of the residents of Kinshasa as they face the challenges of life in an environment coloured by the uncertainty of tomorrow  

06/03/2024 | Berlinale 2024 | Panorama

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