On the podcast, Alex recommends three Tunisian films by women directors from the last decade, including Where the Wind Comes From, which just had its world premiere at Sundance 2025.
African Cinema
Berlinale Review: Luck Razanajaona’s Disco Afrika
Luck Razanajaona’s transporting and touching feature debut, Disco Afrika, is part coming-of-age story, part political awakening, and a fantastic window into daily life in Madagascar.
Cannes: Erige Sehiri’s Under the Fig Trees is a thoughtful day Tunisian drama
Set over the course of one day, Erige Sehiri’s narrative feature debut Under the Fig Trees (Sous les figues) is a thoughtful ensemble film about the group of workers in a Tunisian fig orchard.
Ep. 111: TIFF 2021, part 2
On the second of our TIFF 2021 podcasts, we discuss Power of the Dog, Ali & Ava, and more from this year’s festival.
‘We are a nation of stories and poems’: Khadar Ayderus Ahmed on The Gravedigger’s Wife
Writer-director Khadar Ayderus Ahmed discusses making his feature debut, The Gravedigger’s Wife, a love story set in Djibouti City.
Good Madam review: A haunted house in post-Apartheid South Africa
In Jenna Cato Bass’s horror film, a Black family’s domestic servitude to a white family is the stuff of nightmares.