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Latest Cinema News

Standing ovation for Egyptian film Cactus Flower at Dubai Film Festival

Egyptian actress Menna El-Batrawy receives best actress award for her role in…

Daily News Egypt

Ai Weiwei’s ‘Human Flow’ makes Oscar shortlist

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei first began work on his powerful refugee documentary…

Daily News Egypt

Saudi Arabia to reopen cinemas after 35-year ban

"This marks a watershed moment in the development of the cultural economy…

Deutsche Welle

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

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

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

Fragments of Broken Glass

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

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

‘Western’: a feminine critique of the male ego 

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

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