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“Al-Shouq” (Lust) is the latest addition to a relatively new trend in Egyptian cinema: movies that realistically follow the lives…

In "Heliopolis," Ahmad Abdalla’s fiction debut, a seminal scene depicts a couple gazing at each other for a moment in…

The ominous, low grumble of a bomber, slowly and methodically patrolling the vast skies above, ushers in the Iraqi soldier’s…

“This is a symposium of love, a symposium from the heart,” Soheir Abdel Kader, Vice President of the 34th Cairo…

It’s a shame that the Cairo International Film Festival doesn’t give out an award for Most Annoying Film—“So Much for…

International film festivals are somewhat about pride in your country, and no film in the festival thus far has featured…

For audience members, some films—especially the type screened at international film festivals—can be a test of endurance. The reasons may…

Trouble, the crazed man of a Romanian village, walks by the house of one of the villagers. Obviously drunk, the…

The 21st annual Doha International Book Fair—and its companion first-ever children’s book festival—were not Qatar’s primary obsession this late November…

First off, a confession: I watched “Ring Road” by accident.