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‘Aisha Can’t Fly Away’ review: A Cairo careworker finds herself caught up in local gang tensions
Dir: Morad Mostafa. Egypt/Sudan/Tunisia/Saudi Arabia/Qatar/France/Germany. 2025. 131mins
A good life is rendered unattainable by the unconscionable calls for of others in Aisha Can’t Fly Away, Morad...
‘Ancestral Visions Of The Future’ review: Intricate visual poem from exiled Lesotho filmmaker
Dir/scr: Lemohang Mosese. France/Lesotho/Germany/Qatar/Saudi Arabia. 2025. 88mins
A filmmaker and video artist from Lesotho who resides in Berlin, Lemohang Mosese has made belonging and displacement the...
‘Ancestral Visions Of The Future’ review: Intricate visual poem from exiled Lesotho film-maker
Dir/scr: Lemohang Mosese. France/Lesotho/Germany/Qatar/Saudi Arabia. 2025. 88mins
A filmmaker and video artist from Lesotho who resides in Berlin, Lemohang Mosese has made belonging and displacement the...
‘How To Build A Library’: Sundance Review
Dirs: Maia Lekow, Chris King. 2024. Kenya. 103mins
If information is energy, then libraries should be defended in any respect prices. That’s the mindset of...
‘Khartoum’: Sundance Review
Dirs. Anas Saeed, Rawia Alhag, Ibrahim Snoopy, Timeea M Ahmed & Phil Cox, Sudan/UK/Germany/Qatar, 2025. 81 minutes.
Sudanese documentary Khartoum walks some important miles within...
‘Seeking Haven For Mr Rambo’: Red Sea Review
Dir: Khaled Mansour. Egypt/Saudi Arabia. 2024. 102 minutes
When tensions boil over between 30-year-old Cairo safety guard Hassan (Essam Omar) and his bullish landlord Karem...
‘Red Path’: Thessaloniki Review
Dir: Lotfi Achour. Tunisia/France/Belgium/Poland/Saudi Arabia/Qatar. 2024. 101mins
As if life for 14-year-old goat herder Ashraf (Ali Helali) and his older teen cousin Nizar (Yassine Samouni)...
Palestinian film ‘Happy Holidays’ heads winners at Marrakech Film Festival
Scandar Copti’s Palestinian drama Pleased Holidays took the Étoile d’Or foremost award on the 21st Marrakech Worldwide Movie Competition.
The movie, a Haifa-set drama by...
‘Spring Came On Laughing’: Cairo Review
Dir/scr: Noha Adel. Egypt/France. 2024. 96mins
Easy conversations swiftly descend into explosive confrontations in Spring Got here On Laughing. Noha Adel’s Cairo-set debut characteristic shatters...
Marrakech to honour Sean Penn, David Cronenberg, Naima Elmcherqui
Marrakech Worldwide Movie Competition will current honorary tributes to Sean Penn, David Cronenberg and late Moroccan actress Naima Elmcherqui at its 21st version this...