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97 articles available in total starting from 16/03/2005. Last article published on 14/09/2026.

The Red Sea Film Festival all set to kick off its third edition

The Red Sea Film Festival all set to kick off its third edition

The Saudi Arabian gathering weighs anchor on 30 November with the motto “Your story, your festival”, and with European films and co-productions scattered around its programme  

29/11/2023 | Red Sea 2023

Review: Behind the Mountains

Review: Behind the Mountains

VENICE 2023: In Tunisian director Mohamed Ben Attia’s mysterious and suggestive new film, you’ll believe a dad can fly  

08/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Orizzonti

Afef Ben Mahmoud, Khalil Benkirane • Directors of Backstage

Interview: Afef Ben Mahmoud, Khalil Benkirane • Directors of Backstage

"The idea was to start with the show and then get closer to these characters, who are normal people"

VENICE 2023: The directorial duo talk about their road movie through the forests of the Atlas Mountains in Morocco, where we follow a dance troupe as they head out on the last leg of their tour  

07/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Review: Backstage

Review: Backstage

VENICE 2023: The feature debut by directorial duo Afef Ben Mahmoud and Khalil Benkirane recreates the vibrant and chaotic universe of what goes on behind the scenes of a touring dance troupe  

06/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Mohamed Kordofani  • Director of Goodbye Julia

Interview: Mohamed Kordofani • Director of Goodbye Julia

"The friendship story in my film is a model for the political situation in Sudan, and for a possible reconciliation"

CANNES 2023: The Sudanese director discusses his first feature, a film that strikes a balance between a political and cultural backdrop and a highly intimate plot  

24/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Un Certain Regard

Kaouther Ben Hania  • Director of Four Daughters

Interview: Kaouther Ben Hania • Director of Four Daughters

"It was interesting to bring actors, like mirrors, face to face with real characters"

CANNES 2023: The Tunisian director, in the running for the Palme d'Or for the first time, explains her unique approach, which blurs the line between documentary and fiction  

22/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Competition

Review: Goodbye Julia

Review: Goodbye Julia

CANNES 2023: Sudanese director Mohamed Korfani makes an entrance with a highly accomplished first feature film, exploring the conflicts in his country by way of an intimate, female story  

21/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Un Certain Regard

Review: Four Daughters

Review: Four Daughters

CANNES 2023: Kaouther Ben Hania shines a light on the complex place that women occupy in Tunisia through the story of a family and an original hybridation between documentary and fiction  

20/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Competition

Review: Inshallah a Boy

Review: Inshallah a Boy

CANNES 2023: In this debut feature by Jordanian director Amjad Al Rasheed, a widow contends with the country’s patriarchal inheritance laws, as her only child is a daughter  

18/05/2023 | Cannes 2023 | Critics’ Week

Thierno Souleymane Diallo  • Director of The Cemetery of Cinema

Interview: Thierno Souleymane Diallo • Director of The Cemetery of Cinema

“As people say, a tree without roots cannot grow; films are also parts of these roots”

The Guinean filmmaker is determined to find a lost movie, 1953’s Mouramani - or maybe even his own childhood  

16/03/2023 | CPH:DOX 2023

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