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Censorship officials cave to pressure, lift ban on Khaled Youssef film

Filmmakers, intellectuals triumph against censorship, bureaucracy after pressure to remove ban of…

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At War: Visuals of working class struggle against global capitalism return to Cannes

Fifty years ago, France was shaken by radical waves of protests and…

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Sofia: Classist analysis of marriage institution in modern Morocco

Film scooped Best Screenplay award in Un Certain Regard competition

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Iconic starlet of feminism remembered

Although it has been three years since the death of the iconic…

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One Day wins International Critics’ prize for first film

Film was presented in Semaine de la Critique at Cannes Film Festival

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World politics, poverty, triumph of personal rights at Cannes 2018

Palme d’Or went to Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Shoplifters, drama that tells story of…

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Moroccan film ‘Sofia’ awarded Un Certain Regard prize for best script

Film is written, directed by Moroccan filmmaker Meryem Ben Mbarek

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Girls of the Sun: Fetishising female militancy

Eva Husson’s Girls of the Sun premiered at Cannes Film Festival in…

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