The Middle East's female filmmakers are increasingly recognized and celebrated. But the challenges they’re facing are not always what one might expect.
The Egyptian film industry came to dominate the Arab world – and poster makers did much to secure its hold on the popular imagination, writes Raphael Cormack
At a festival the size and stature of the Czech Republic’s Karlovy Vary, new discoveries are a daily occurrence. But it is rare that at festival’s end, one of the most excitingly buzzy emergent names should be that of a filmmaker who died 37 years ago and who has languished in relative obscurity – certainly […]