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Currently Reading Death of a Virgin, and the Sin of Not Living Review: Inner Lives Revealed With Originality and Compassion Death of a Virgin, and the Sin of Not Living Review: Inner Lives Revealed With Originality and Compassion
Organically presented inner monologues drive home the fragility of life and the yearning for self-worth in Lebanese director George Peter Barbari s impressive debut.
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A Cop Movie Review: An Inventive Investigation Into What Motivates the Police
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A Cop Movie Review: An Inventive Investigation Into What Motivates the Police
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Souad Review: Religious Conservatism Clashes With Social Media in Egyptian Drama Souad Review: Religious Conservatism Clashes With Social Media in Egyptian Drama
A vibrant young woman north of Cairo is trapped between conflicting modes of comportment, with religion on one side and social media on the other.
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Director: Ayten Amin
With: Bassant Ahmed, Basmala Elghaiesh, Hussein Ghanem, Hager Mahmoud, Sarah Shedid, Carol Ackad, Mona Elnamoury, Islam Shalaby, Nayera El Dahshoury. (Arabic dialogue)
Running time: Running time: 98 MIN.
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There are two gods in “Souad,” Allah and smart phones, but in a battle between the two it’s clear who’ll be the winner. Ayten Amin’s bold second feature is brilliantly alive to the contradictions of teenage life in conservative Egypt, where the pressures of social media clash with traditional religious strictures, leading to schizophrenic lives of acute une
How Memory Box Directors Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige Mined Their Own Past
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When directors Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige uncovered a trove of photographs, journals and audio recordings they had made while growing up in Beirut of the 1980s, they knew these personal archives would fuel their next film. Acclaimed artists and documentarians, the creative duo opted to develop these archives into a narrative feature that tells the story of two generations of mothers and daughters.
Set in present-day Canada and 1980s Lebanon, Berlin competition title “Memory Box” focuses on an adolescent girl who stumbles upon her mother’s own personal archives and through them discovers her mother at a wholly different age.