Anywhere Anytime
Director Milad Tshangir’s impressive debut feature ‘Anywhere Anytime’ puts a contemporary illegal-immigrant spin on Vittorio De Sica’s beloved Italian neorealist classic ‘Bicycle Thieves’.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Nov 23, 2024 | Festivals, Cairo, Cairo 2024 |
Director Milad Tshangir’s impressive debut feature ‘Anywhere Anytime’ puts a contemporary illegal-immigrant spin on Vittorio De Sica’s beloved Italian neorealist classic ‘Bicycle Thieves’.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Nov 22, 2024 | Featured, Cairo 2024, Festivals |
The Cairo jury gave their main prize to Romanian director Bogdan Muresanu’s tragicomic Cold War period piece ‘The New Year That Never Came’, but local writer-director Noha Adel earned the most awards and warmest reviews with her bittersweet female-driven ensemble drama ‘Spring Came Laughing’.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Nov 20, 2024 | Cairo 2024, Festivals |
Drawn from his own family background, Turkish director Necmi Sancak’s prize-winning debut feature ‘Ayse’ is a bleak but powerful portrait of a highly stressed woman caring for her disabled brother,
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Nov 19, 2024 | Cairo, Cairo 2024, Festivals |
Made in collaboration with feted dissident director Jafar Panahi, Nader Saeivar’s ‘The Witness’ is a muted but quietly furious protest drama about murder and misogyny in contemporary Iran,
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Nov 19, 2024 | Festivals, IDFA, IDFA 2024 |
Drawing on her own troubled family background, Irish visual artist and first-time feature director Myrid Carten paints a slightly muddled but emotionally powerful portrait of addiction and depression, shame and blame with ‘A Want in Her’.
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