Hany Abu Assad’s new film Omar won the best film award at the Dubai International Film Festival last week, cementing his reputation as one of the foremost Arab directors of the moment. His Paradise Now (2006) won a Golden Globe for Best Foreign […]
Speaking in Doha during a special retrospective of his films last week, celebrated Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami talked a little bit about his work. He prefers not to say much by way of interpretation of his work, leaving it to the individual […]
By Andrew Hammond DUBAI | Fri Dec 21, 2012 8:50am EST (Reuters) – When director John Slattery first visited Morocco, the familiarity was jarring – and as removed from the images of an exotic Orient conjured up by Hollywood as possible. That […]
By Andrew Hammond DUBAI | Thu Dec 20, 2012 9:50am EST (Reuters) – When Universal Studios took a disliking to the script for Ziad Doueiri’s Israeli-Palestinian suicide bombing drama, the Lebanese director thought his career was over. Six years later “The Attack” […]
By Andrew Hammond DUBAI | Mon Dec 19, 2011 1:36pm EST (Reuters) – A film about one of thousands of Koranic schools for girls in Syria has shocked some Syrians but impressed others with the implication that one of the bastions of […]
By Andrew Hammond DUBAI | Fri Dec 16, 2011 8:24pm EST (Reuters) – When Yasmina Adi got access to archives documenting the 1961 repression of Algerian protesters in Paris, she was shocked to uncover a trove of material relating to gaps in […]
By Andrew Hammond DUBAI | Tue Dec 13, 2011 1:23pm EST (Reuters) – The first cinematic output covering protests in Egypt and Tunisia this year recreates the euphoria of revolutions that many thought would never happen, but reveals signs of the conflicts […]
By Andrew Hammond DUBAI | Mon Dec 12, 2011 9:32am EST Dec 12 (Reuters) – Associates of Yasser Arafat offer personal recollections in a documentary screened in Dubai this week on his search for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal that descended into violence […]