Film

Popular uprisings that toppled veteran leaders in the Arab world have raised hopes among north African filmmakers that the winds…

“Boy” (New Zealand). Coming-of-age films are usually little more than a list of calculated clichés— the loss of innocence, the…

In the mid 1940s, when prominent (though untalented) Egyptian actor Anwar Wagdy openly bragged to journalists about the famous actresses…

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

Renowned French actress Isabelle Huppert plays Babou in Marc Fitoussi’s latest feature comedy, “Copacabana,” the only French production entered in…

“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…

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…

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