Dir: Gabriel Mascaro | Cast: Denise Weinberg, Rodrigo Santoro, Miriam Socarrás, Adanilo, Rosa Malagueta, Clarissa Pinheiro | Portugal, Sci-fi drama 82' 2025 Stories about courageous women refusing to budge are a...

Egyptian cinema holds a treasure trove of classics dating back to the 1950s waiting to be rediscovered and well worth revisiting. Thanks to the specialist restoration centre just outside Cairo, many...

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The new Grand Egyptian Museum is the biggest archaeological museum in the world. Showcasing  around 100,000 artefacts from some seven millennia of the country's history, the museum serves as a...

Belt and Road Film Week is an event that showcases films and promotes cultural exchange among countries participating in the Belt and Road Initiative, 2025, which was intruded by the...

The New Year That Never Came won the Golden Pyramid for best film at Cairo's 45th International Film Festival (CIFF). The dark comedy unfolds on the cusp of Romania's 1989...

Dir: Mohamed Subahi | Sudan, Doc 75' A lively documentary despite its tragic subject matter charting the history of modern Sudan through the lives of three people in today's Khartoum. The country...

Dir: Carlos Marques-Marcet | Cast: Alfredo Castro, Angela Molina, Monica Almirall | Spain 106mins Euthanasia is a hot topic at the moment with The Room Next Door taking the Golden Lion...

Joseph L Mankiewicz' version of Cleopatra is a real romp and one of the most magnificent romps in the history of cinema. A restored Egyptian classic this dazzling epic had an...