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Currently Reading The Life and Times of Omar Sharif to Examine How Politics Shaped the Legendary Actor s Enigmatic Persona (EXCLUSIVE)
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Captivated by the seemingly many personas of late actor Omar Sharif, Egyptian filmmaker Mark Lotfy and Swedish director Axel Petersén delved into the legendary star’s eventful career, tracing how the politics of 1950s Egypt formed the international star’s complex character.
Their new documentary, “The Life and Times of Omar Sharif,” shows in particular how the policies of President Gamal Abdel Nasser and the political climate of the time led him to change his name and convert to Islam, and later to become a cosmopolitan individual who was equally at home in Cairo, Paris or Los Angeles.
Sabaya Review: Devastating Doc on the Frontline Fight to Rescue Women and Girls From ISIS Slavery Sabaya Review: Devastating Doc on the Frontline Fight to Rescue Women and Girls From ISIS Slavery
A small band of volunteers attempt to rescue female ISIS slaves from a Syrian border camp in Hogir Hirori s gripping, harrowing, superb doc.
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Running time: Running time: 91 MIN.
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Mahmud is on his cellphone and he can’t get through. It’s the first image in Hogir Hirori’s startling “Sabaya,” an intense, deeply embedded documentary following the painstaking and perilous rescue of Yazidi women (a Kurdish religious minority), from enslavement by ISIS, aka Daesh. It will not be the last time a call is dropped, a signal lost or a ringback tone times out it becomes a recurring motif, a matter-of-fact reminder of all the people who can’t be reached.