Author: Adham Youssef

A child’s endeavor to find baking ingredients in ‘The President’s Cake’ becomes a boldly vivid portrait of life in 90s’ Iraq amid war, foreign sanctions, dictatorship, and childhood, with a commendable young cast and unique visual identity.

Amel Guellaty’s ‘Where the Wind Comes From’ is a vibrant road movie combining humor, fantasy, and charismatic performances of two young people determined to imagine their freedom beyond social restraints and economic crisis.

Georges Khabbaz and Hanna Schygulla bring a quiet yet powerful emotional force to ‘Yunan’, Ameer Fakher Eldin’s striking meditation on depression, trauma, and exile.