iman - Page 7 of 14 - The Film Verdict

Opponent

Posted by Jordan Mintzer | Feb 22, 2023 | Berlin, Berlin 2023, Featured, Festivals, International Oscars 2024 |

Payman Maadi gives another outstanding performance in a deeply layered refugee drama that isn’t always the sum of its parts.

Mediterranean Fever

Posted by Jay Weissberg | Jan 16, 2023 | Featured, Festivals, Palm Springs 2023 |

Palestine’s Oscar submission is an uneven story of a depressed man hoping to get his neighbor to bump him off, told in a vaguely black comedy manner.

Cairo Conspiracy

Posted by Jay Weissberg | Dec 22, 2022 | Festivals, Spotlight |

Sweden’s shortlisted International Oscar hopeful, formerly known as ‘Boy from Heaven’, is a solid though cautious, slow-burn loss-of innocence tale wrapped around the struggle between State versus Religion, designed for Western consumption.

Riverbed

Posted by Deborah Young | Nov 25, 2022 | Cairo, CAIRO 2022, Festivals, Spotlight |

Lebanese actress Carole Abboud brings a sense of wistful loneliness to the role of an independent woman estranged from her adult daughter in Bassem Breche’s sketch-like feature debut.

Alam

Posted by Jay Weissberg | Nov 22, 2022 | Cairo, CAIRO 2022, Festivals, Spotlight |

Writer-director Firas Khoury refreshingly normalizes the lives of a group of Palestinian teens in Israel and then adds a political overlay in this notable debut that deserves more attention than accorded in Toronto.

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