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Lemon Tree: camera as tool to deconstruct borders in Arab-Israeli conflict

Lemon Tree brings the camera to the borders. The film takes place…

Adham Youssef Adham Youssef

Roses are red, violets are blue, Rosetta is a girl we aren’t used To

The camera scurries to get a hold of a young woman as…

Farida El-Sayed Farida El-Sayed

The killing of the Sacred Deer: Searching for the perfect cinematographic blend

In his film Dogtooth (2009), Greek Director Yorgos Lanthimos used one lens…

Mohammed Tarek Mohammed Tarek

Fragments of Broken Glass

In Elia Suleiman’s first feature film, Chronicle of a Disappearance (1996), he…

Farida El-Sayed Farida El-Sayed

The Hurt Locker: how to use film to create pro-war propaganda?

Somewhere in Iraq, a soldier steps forward to disable a bomb, some…

Mohammed Tarek Mohammed Tarek

‘Western’: a feminine critique of the male ego 

Opening the sidebar program of the Cannes Film Festival, “Un Certain Regard”,…

Adham Youssef Adham Youssef

US war films and the African question: reproducing “other” in Black Hawk Down

In 1979, Apocalypse Now, an American Vietnam war film directed by Francis…

Adham Youssef Adham Youssef