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54 articles available in total starting from 18/05/2008. Last article published on 18/04/2024.

Review: We Are Inside

Review: We Are Inside

In her remarkable, intimately autobiographical documentary, Lebanese director Farah Kassem finds the political in poetry and infuses politics with the poetic  

18/04 | Visions du Réel 2024

Review: Embodied Chorus

Review: Embodied Chorus

Danielle Davie and Mohamad Moe Sabbah offer a look both raw and poetic at life with an STI  

11/03 | Luxembourg 2024

Review: Diaries from Lebanon

Review: Diaries from Lebanon

BERLINALE 2024: The efforts to live a relatively normal life amidst the unstable realities of Lebanon are at the heart of the socially engaged documentary by Myriam El Hajj  

26/02 | Berlinale 2024 | Panorama

Myriam El Hajj • Director of Diaries from Lebanon

Interview: Myriam El Hajj • Director of Diaries from Lebanon

“I was inside the events and living through them with my characters”

BERLINALE 2024: The director breaks down her portrait of the hardships that Lebanese society has gone through over the last few years  

22/02 | Berlinale 2024 | Panorama

Marcelo Gomes • Director of Portrait of a Certain Orient

Interview: Marcelo Gomes • Director of Portrait of a Certain Orient

“I want to talk about the human being in context, not about the context itself”

The Brazilian director breaks down his story of a migration process that takes his characters from Lebanon to Brazil  

07/02 | IFFR 2024 | Big Screen Competition

Review: Portrait of a Certain Orient

Review: Portrait of a Certain Orient

Marcelo Gomes tells the story of an escape from Lebanon to Brazil by way of a black and white drama interweaving passion, memory and desire  

31/01 | IFFR 2024 | Big Screen Competition

Review: 2G

Review: 2G

Karim Sayad follows four former smugglers from Nigeria wrestling with a reality light on other options, and successfully captures the desperate poetry of their plight  

21/11/2023 | IDFA 2023

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer and poster for IDFA Frontlight title 2G

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer and poster for IDFA Frontlight title 2G

Karim Sayad’s documentary follows four former smugglers who struggle to make a living after Niger’s ban on migrant transportation  

06/11/2023 | IDFA 2023

Cyril Aris  • Director of Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano

Interview: Cyril Aris • Director of Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano

"I wanted to explore how art can get people back on their feet again"

The Lebanese director gives us the insights on his documentary centred on a film crew in the middle of production paralysed by the catastrophic explosion in the Port of Beirut in 2020  

07/07/2023 | Karlovy Vary 2023 | Competition

Review: Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano

Review: Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano

The inexhaustible spirit of Terry Gilliam’s on-set misadventures is all over Cyril Aris’s complex doc  

04/07/2023 | Karlovy Vary 2023 | Competition

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