While the Iranian helmer’s latest film may not be his best, it has turned out to be his most crucial to date — all because Panahi is finally able to promote it.
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DFI's 2024 Fall Grants announcement includes projects by Youssef Chebbi, Sofia Alaoui, Mehdi Hmili and Anas Khalaf
As well as a feature doc by Iraqi actress and filmmaker Zahraa Ghandour, a web series by Palestinian storyteller Amer Shomali, Damien Ounouri’s and Adila Bendimerad’s follow up to festival fave ‘The Last Queen’, and shorts by Qatari talents Mahdi Ali Ali and Majid Al-Remaihi.
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'Wild Diamond' Cannes Review: A woman's story for the age we live in
Agathe Riedinger’s Competition title shows us the contradictions and pressures of being a modern woman. And the resulting film is a work of the seventh art not to be missed.
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Jeremy Xido's 'The Bones' follows CPH:DOX premiere with Hot Docs Surprise Screening
And the film importantly holds proof that in order to understand our future, we must look at the past — the very distant, millions of years ago, dinosaurs and all, past!
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Soudade Kaadan's breathtaking 'Nezouh' finally opens in the UK on May 3rd
This is definitely a film you won’t want to miss. And read on for a personal interview with the Syrian filmmaker to find out why.
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Franz Rogowski in a still from ‘Disco Boy’ by Giacomo Abbruzzese
'Disco Boy' -- a US release review
In a hippy, trippy kind of way, filmmaker Giacomo Abbruzzese’s debut feature echoes fellow Italian Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Apocalypse Now’, as he journeys to the heart of darkness, with the help of spellbinding German actor Franz Rogowski.
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Nicolas and Aurelien hold little Louise in a still from ‘Ghosts of the République’ by Jonathon Narducci
Love and marriage, plus fatherhood: 'Ghosts of the République' explores a same-sex couple's trials to have a baby
A couple, a love affair, a wedding day and then the desire to have a child together. It’s everyone’s dream, yet if the couple we are part of isn’t the norm in this world, there will be obstacles ahead. Love is difficult enough if you’re straight, so if the couple happens to be gay, the challenges multiply by the thousands.
In the upcoming 'Ghosts of the République’ a wonderful documentary which will begin streaming on November 17th, we watch the love affair of French couple Nicolas and Aurelien unfolding.
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