Above: Rigoberto Pérezcano’s border town film Northless. With the programmers of the Middle Eastern Film Festival tasked with bringing cinema to Abu Dhabi—which has no alternative theaters beyond
Yousry Nasrallah cleverly re-imagines the Arabian Nights for the age of post-modernism, exhaustive politics, and female rights in Scheherazade Tell Me a Story. Utilizing conventions of soap operas
Let's face it, for the past two years Steven Soderbergh has been making highly politicized cinema in a way no American director would dare to—calmly, methodically, and without baiting either press or
“This is not Egypt” says an interviewee in Tahani Rached’s new documentary Neighbors, but the old guard dies hard in Cairo’s Garden City neighborhood and probably think the opposite. A beautifully
Pretty pictures are one thing, good movies another. Two features at Abu Dhabi—Özcan Alper’s feature film debut Autumn and Ciro Guerra’s second film, The Wind Journeys—showcase growing visual talent
Carving out an identity as a film festival is harder than ever these days. In the States, highly local and niche film festivals compete for audiences and seem unable to form a reputation outside of