Category: Reviews
“Round 13”: When Life Demands One More Fight — A Raw, Devastating Portrait of Love, Loss, and Resilience
Premiering at the 46th Cairo International Film Festival in the Arab Horizons Competition, Tunisian filmmaker Mohamed Ali Nahdi’s Round 13 emerges as [...]
“Complaint No. 713317”: A Darkly Hilarious Dissection of Bureaucracy, Marriage, and the Quiet Collapse of Ordinary Lives
By Nabil Alani - CIFF46
In Complaint No. 713317, Egyptian filmmaker Yasser Shafiey proves that great cinema does not require grand locations, sweepin [...]
One More Show: When Art Refuses to Die — A Devastating, Unforgettable Portrait of Gaza’s Last Circus
One More Show — directed by Mai Saad and Ahmed Eldanf — arrives at the 46th Cairo International Film Festival as one of the most emotionally shatterin [...]
(Y)Our Mother: A Fragile Reckoning with Love, Distance, and Inherited Silence at Amman Film Festival 2025
At the Amman International Film Festival 2025, one of the most quietly powerful films to emerge from the Arab Documentary Competition was (Y)Our Mothe [...]
Têtes Brûlées: Intimate Grief and Quiet Resistance at the Amman International Film Festival 2025
At the Amman International Film Festival 2025, Arab Cinema in All Its Boldness found one of its most tender and emotionally resonant expressions in Tê [...]
Shadows of Recife: Kleber Mendonça Filho’s “The Secret Agent” Reimagines Resistance Under Brazil’s Dictatorship
In The Secret Agent, Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho crafts a dense and atmospheric cinematic journey into one of the darkest chapters of Br [...]
Love at the Edge of Madness – Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love Electrifies Cannes 2025
At the Cannes Film Festival 2025, few films in Competition provoked such a visceral and unforgettable response as Lynne Ramsay’s Die My Love. A filmma [...]
Cinema Reborn on the Croisette – How Cannes Classics Keeps Film History Alive
At the Cannes Film Festival 2025, the past did not merely return—it was reborn on the big screen. Through the celebrated Cannes Classics section, the [...]
The Message (El mensaje): Whispered Faith, Wandering Souls — Iván Fund’s Quiet Berlinale Revelation
At the Berlin International Film Festival 75th edition, amid louder political allegories and high-concept cinema, Iván Fund presented one of the compe [...]
Dreams (Sex Love): When Intimacy Becomes Language — Dag Johan Haugerud’s Golden Bear Triumph
With Dreams (Sex Love), Norwegian filmmaker Dag Johan Haugerud delivers a film of rare quiet power — one that listens more than it speaks, feels more [...]