Noted filmmaker Amos Gitai adds another brick to his lifelong critique of Israeli government policies in ‘The Road to Jericho’, whose call for peace between Arabs and Jews has a striking timeliness as the Iran war rages on.
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Ashgan El-Hamus’s loosely structured first feature ‘Al Baraneya’ uses a mosaic of scenes from rural Egyptian life to champion both a close-knit community and women’s right to choose their own lives.
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‘Everytime’ in the Narrative Feature Competition and ‘To Hold a Mountain’ in the Documentary Feature Competition were notable winners at the 32nd Sarajevo Film Festival, which closed with a screening of the restored version of the Academy Award®-winning film ‘No Man’s Land’ by Danis Tanovic.
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Filmmaker Lana Daher filmically mimics the chaos, confusion and complexity of her native Beirut’s recent history in a whirlwind of archival montage that is at once stunning and indecipherable.
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