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Celebrating the diamond jubilee of its confiscation of the film “Lashin” on 17 March 1937, Egypt’s Board of Censors marked the occasion by banning Amir Ramses’ “Jews of Egypt,” one day before it was set to be...
At some point during the shooting of “Ein Shams” in 2008, Ibrahim El Batout had a camera rigged on a moving car. Without a shooting permit, he was recording tracking shots of Cairo’s streets, to be used as a backdrop for the film...
VENICE –– “Ya Man Aach” (It Was Better Tomorrow), Hinde Boujemma’s first feature-length documentary is screened in the Proiezioni Speciali section of the 69th Venice International Film Festival. Following Aida, a...
VENICE — A hefty psychological drama that follows five friends getting lost in a forest, and slowly reveals a more complicated web of issues that overshadows the physical entrapment, “Leones” is the first film by visual artist and...
VENICE — Late Italian screenwriter Cesare Zavattini, a main contributor to the neorealist movement, once said: “in the archives are [sleeping] images that are eager to come to life.” His prophecy comes to life in “La Nave...
VENICE — “Amr Nagi Ismail,” says the mother, stating her son’s name to an edgy police officer. She has been desperately trying to find him since he was kidnapped by the State Security Investigative Services.
This scene, among...
Following its award-winning spree at the Third Doha Tribeca Film Festival, the 2012 Berlinale and the 15th Ismailia International Film Festival, Namir Abdel Messeeh took his debut feature documentary “The Virgin, the Copts and Me” on a...
