Reviews

Dir/Wri: Noha Adel | Cast: Main cast: Reem Safwat, Rehab Anan, Carol Ackad, Kawthar Younis | Egypt/France. 2024. 96mins Conflict is never far away in this female centric film inspired by...

Dir: Houssain El-Din Mustafa | Egypt, Drama 122' The Beggar is a lyrical love story directed by Houssaim El-Din Mustafa who looks at one man’s search for the meaning of life...

Dir: Sonia Kronlund | France Doc, 90' So who is the man of a thousand faces? He introduces himself as Daniel, Alexandre or Ricardo and apparently comes from Brazil or Argentina....

Dir/Wri: Payal Kapadia | Cast: Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha, Chhaya Kadam, Hridhu Haroon | India Drama 110' Writer-director Payal Kapadia‘s Mumbai set feature All We Imagine As Light was the first Indian...

A pioneer in the African and Arab world Egyptian cinema has an impressive legacy that dates back to the 1890s. With over four thousand features, shorts and documentaries produced across...

Dir: Lucy Lawless | With Christiane Amanpour, Margaret Moth | US Doc 85' A swashbuckling CNN combat camerawoman and trailblazing female icon; the unbelievable, yet entirely true, story of award-winning journalist,...

WriDirs: Carol Mansour, Muna Khalidi | Doc 89' Filmmakers Carol Mansour and Muna Khalidi are close friends of the Abu Sittan family and explore from an intensely personal angle the life...

Dir.: Satyajit Ray | Cast: Madhabi Mukherjee, Soumitra Chatterjee, Shailen Mukherjee | India 1964; 117 min. Another story of female alienation, set in Kolkata in the early 1880s and based on...

Dir/scr. Pema Tseden. China. 2023. 109mins The snow leopard is a protected animal in its native Tibet but it represents different things to the local people in this wild region.  Pema Tseden,...