Tag: Cairo International Film Festival 2022

The Family

The Family

Posted by | Nov 24, 2022 | , , |

The toxic privilege of Algeria’s ministerial elite is the target of Merzak Allouache’s fitfully successful mix of class satire and political thriller.

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Far from the Nile

Far from the Nile

Posted by | Nov 23, 2022 | , , |

Cairo awarded its best documentary prize to this broadly appealing fly-on-the-wall documentary about a group of musicians from countries bordering the Nile who go on a demanding hundred-day-tour of the U.S.

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Alam

Alam

Posted by | Nov 22, 2022 | , , , |

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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19B

19B

Posted by | Nov 18, 2022 | , |

Ahmad Abdalla’s latest is a handsomely produced, effective drama about a redundant Cairene house guard, the sole resident of a dilapidated mansion, trying to stave off the encroaching collapse of his world.

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