Deborah Young - The Film Verdict

Gazan Tales

Posted by Deborah Young | Nov 16, 2024 | Cairo 2024, Festivals |

Shot over a year ago by students in a filmmaking workshop in Gaza, ‘Gazan Tales’ is a disarming snapshot of four men’s everyday lives, as they pass their days unaware of the disaster about to befall them

Decoded

Posted by Deborah Young | Nov 15, 2024 | Festivals, Cairo 2024 |

Popular director Chen Sicheng brings Mai Jia’s bestseller ‘Decoded’ to the screen in a wildly imaginative if often confusing genre-buster that co-stars John Cusack as a brilliant mathematician pitted against his even more brilliant Chinese pupil.

Passing Dreams

Posted by Deborah Young | Nov 14, 2024 | Cairo 2024, Featured, Festivals |

A stubborn boy searches all over Palestine for a lost pigeon in ‘Passing Dreams’, Rashid Masharawi’s unexpectedly gentle, non-confrontational allegory about the state of the country.

The Return of the Cairo International Film Festival

Posted by Deborah Young | Nov 4, 2024 | Featured |

200 miles from the Egypt-Gaza border, the city on the Nile prepares to open the curtain.

Skin in Spring

Posted by Deborah Young | Sep 27, 2024 | Festivals, Cine Verdict, San Sebastian 2024 |

Small in scale but big in its ambition to show how an ordinary woman reinvents herself by learning to express her desires, the Colombian film ‘Skin in Spring’ is observational fiction at its most delicate and intriguing

Author: Deborah Young

Gazan Tales

Decoded

Passing Dreams

The Return of the Cairo International Film Festival

Skin in Spring