Moroccan director Alaa Eddine Aljem discusses his first feature, The Unknown Saint, a comic and absurdist fable about the intersection of faith and commerce. …
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Maxime Giroux discusses The Great Darkened Days
Québécois director Maxime Giroux tells us about The Great Darkened Days,his absurdist, poetic, and often brutal fable about the corruptive power of capitalism. …
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Our five favourite films from Cannes 2019
The selection of the Cannes Film Festival was less exciting this year than it had proved to be in the past, but some wonderful gems stood out. …
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Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts on their doc For Sama
Besieged in Aleppo, Waad Al-Kateab kept filming. From her incredible archive, she assembled with British director Edward Watts the breathtaking and harrowing …
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The old and the new coexist in Bergamo
Every year, in Bergamo, Italy, a small film festival honours titans of European cinema, dusts up lesser known talents, and showcases the most exciting new …
‘I wanted to give faces to the refugees’: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun on A Season in France
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun discusses his latest film A Season in France, which follows a refugee and his family as they hope to be granted the permission to stay in …