The Wall
Vicky Krieps gives a striking performance as a racist Arizona border patrol guard in Belgian director Phillippe Van Leeuw’s otherwise underwhelming contemporary frontier western ‘The Wall’.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Dec 19, 2023 | Featured, El Gouna 2023, Festivals |
Vicky Krieps gives a striking performance as a racist Arizona border patrol guard in Belgian director Phillippe Van Leeuw’s otherwise underwhelming contemporary frontier western ‘The Wall’.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Dec 18, 2023 | El Gouna 2023, Featured, Festivals |
Gaining extra urgency in the light of current events, British-Palestinian director Farah Nabulsi’s debut feature ‘The Teacher’ is a well-intentioned but flawed drama set in the occupied West Bank
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Dec 16, 2023 | El Gouna 2023, Festivals |
French-Iraqi director Leila Albayaty explores her own complex cultural roots, painful family tensions and buried traumatic memories in her emotionally raw docu-musical ‘From Abdul to Leila’.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Dec 14, 2023 | El Gouna 2023, Festivals |
A charmingly eccentric 12-year-old girl struggles to bond with her estranged father in writer-director Charlotte Regan’s funny, sunny, prize-winning debut feature ‘Scrapper’.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Dec 12, 2023 | Festivals, El Gouna 2023 |
A timely coming-of-age drama about young women dealing with the complexities of sexual consent, writer-director Molly Manning Walker’s prize-winning debut feature ‘How to Have Sex’ is impressively nuanced and emotionally rich.
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