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‘The Settlement’ review: Egyptian debut is a bleak and dispiriting revenge thriller
Dir/scr: Mohamed Rashad. Egypt/France/Germany/Qatar/Saudi Arabia. 2025. 93mins
In a bleak and lawless nook of Alexandria, Egypt, a delinquent 23-year-old son is pulled again into the...
‘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...
‘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...
Egyptian magical realism drama, Libyan doc win top prizes at CineGouna industry platform
Egyptian filmmaker Jad Chahine’s magical realism drama The Masters Of Magic And Magnificence and Libyan-US filmmaker Jihan’s characteristic documentary My Father And Qaddafi have...
‘Perfumed With Mint’: Venice Review
Dir/scr: Muhammed Hamdy. Egypt/France/Tunisia/Qatar. 2024. 113mins
Cairo-born Muhammed Hamdy’s debut characteristic confronts the ghosts of the previous and the best way they hang-out and form...