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In a quasi-political thriller, Ala Eddine Slim translates a nightmare of two sleeping animals into a mysterious multilayered investigative story referring to a morally and environmentally corrupt Tunisian village.
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Posted by Adham Youssef | Aug 14, 2024 | Festivals, Locarno 2024 |
In a quasi-political thriller, Ala Eddine Slim translates a nightmare of two sleeping animals into a mysterious multilayered investigative story referring to a morally and environmentally corrupt Tunisian village.
Read MorePosted by Adham Youssef | Aug 9, 2024 | Festivals, Locarno 2024 |
Lotfi Achour’s engrossing psychodrama ‘Red Path’ (‘Les enfants rouges’) is a powerful investigation into the traumatized mind of a young shepherd who witnessed the beheading of his cousin by an extremist group.
Read MorePosted by Adham Youssef | Jul 5, 2024 | Festivals, Karlovy Vary 2024 |
In writer-director Abdellah Taïa’s ode to youthful rebellion ‘Cabo Negro’, two heartbroken queer Moroccans take refuge in a luxury villa to confront old traumas and share solidarity.
Read MorePosted by Adham Youssef | May 29, 2024 | Cannes 2024, Festivals |
Tawfik Alzaidi’s classically narrated, slow-burn drama ‘Norah’ is a tribute to art and artists in socially conservative societies like 1990s Saudi Arabia.
Read MorePosted by Adham Youssef | May 23, 2024 | Cannes 2024, Festivals |
When ‘The Village Next to Paradise’ bowed in Un Certain Regard, Mo Harawe became the first Somali filmmaker to compete at Cannes.
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