Culture

Two young Egyptian authors have made the shortlist for the 2011 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF), popularly known as…

Winner of many awards including Best Arab Film at 2009’s Damascus Film Festival, the Syrian film “Once Again” is the…

The rich ambiguity and artistry of contemporary Polish cinema--Roman Polański, Krzysztof Kieślowski—is mostly ignored in “Born of the Sea,” the…

The Digital Cinema category in the Cairo International Film Festival is one not readily recognized by your average film-goer, and…

If there’s one trait that best characterizes Gulf cinema, it’s an undying love for all things melodramatic--and the Bahraini film…

Christian Andersen works 14 hours a day on his farm in Regstrup village, Denmark. Every morning, he eats breakfast with…

First-time Greek director Margarita Manda describes her movie “Gold Dust” as one born out of a need to talk about…

Pablo, a famous Argentinian writer in his late sixties, enters his elevator to go to his writing studio; a number…

Sometimes, it can be a rewarding experience to walk into a movie theater with no background information on the film…

Set in a nameless Egyptian city in the early 1960s, “The Jokers” (NYRB 2010) is a ruthless send-up of power, corruption…