Watching a number of animated shorts in succession, one can only marvel at the beauty and variety of this medium. With its different styles like the well-known hand-drawn style of Disney classics and Ghibli Studios and the CGI of Pixar, and others (...)
Two of Makoto Shinkai's works,Voices from a DistantStar(2002) and5 Centimeters per Second(2005), will be screened next Thursday at the Japanese embassy in Cairo. To many this will be their first encounter with this captivating Japanese animator.
One (...)
Director Ayten Amin's highly anticipated first feature film, Villa 69, was met with acclaim from Egyptian audiences at the Panorama of the European Film in Cairo on Wednesday; the film will hit Egyptian cinemas on 25 December
The audience gathered (...)
The independent Indian filmShip of Theseus, by Anand Ghandi, screening in the Emerging Directors section at the Panorama of the European Film, relays three interrelated stories that discuss profound philosophical questions.
Through highly (...)
Daniel Patrick Carbone's 'Hide Your Smiling Faces,' screened during the Panorama of the European Film, peers into moments laden with emotion through powerfully improvised performances by young actors
As most debut films, Hide Your Smiling Faces, (...)
The much-anticipated annual Panorama of the European Film festival opened on Wednesday 27 November with the Norwegian/British production ofKon-Tiki,a film directed by Norwegians Joachim Roenning and Espen Sandberg.
According to the festival's (...)
Revolutions are infrequent, yet recurring moments in history, and with their outburst most artists becomeoverwhelmed by such phenomena.
The event titled Recording Against Regimes open from 6-23 March at Cairo'sDarb 1718Contemporary Art and Culture (...)
The fifth round of the Panorama of European Film in saw many good films and initiatives. Most popular among the audience this year were Rust and Bone, Oslo 31, Searching for Sugar Man, Ceasar Must Die and the Egyptian documentary Jews of Egypt by (...)
Catherine Corsini, the filmmaker of Three Worlds, was among the guests at this year's Eurofilm Panorama. Three Worlds is not her first film to be screened at the panorama, as her film Partir was screened two years ago.
Three Worlds, which (...)
Part of this year's Panorama of European Film, even with a number of predictable dramatic turns, the story of a child with a terminal disease manages to be touching without imposing overstating its emotional case
Cool Kids Don't Cry is a depressing (...)
During the official press conference held on 26 September, organisers of the annual Panorama of European Film (3-9 October) introduced this year programme. An initiative of Misr International Films-Youssef Chahine, the five-year-old Panorama aims to (...)
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The film relays the journey of couple, Hazem (Ahmed El Sakka) and Farida (Dorra), as they meet at wedding, fall in love, get married, go on their honeymoon and then try to conceive a child. This, however, (...)
As the month of Ramadan comes to a close, more than 70 Ramadan television serials – aired on a host of different channels – will wrap up this weekend.
Critics differ on the implications of such a large number of Ramadan serials. While critic Kamal (...)
Amid the deluge of television serials aired in this year's month of Ramadan, only a few are worth watching.
Vertigo can be counted as one.
Though for its genre as a political thriller it is a little slow-paced, and occasionally drifts towards (...)
Medrar for Contemporary Art, an artistic organisation for arts and media, relocated to a larger space in Cairo's Garden City district last week. Mohamed Allam, a founder of Medrar, talked to Ahram Online about the organisation and its various (...)
El Feel, an Applied Arts Faculty student play directed by Mohamed El Abd, opened yesterday at Rawabet Theatre. It is an adaptation of El-Feel Ya Malek El-Zaman (Elephant, King of All Time) by the late Syrian playwright Saad Allah Wanous.
The play (...)
Filmmaker Namir Abdel-Messeh offers an intimate and entertaining portrait of his Upper Egypt Coptic community through reconstructing and exploring apparitions of the Virgin Mary
In a packed room in Downtown Cairo's CaféRiche, Tuesday, crowds (...)
Even to a cultural journalist the concept of attending the Cannes Film Festival had always seemed like a distant notion. So receiving an e-mail from CFI (Canal France International) asking for my confirmation to attend, my imagination soared. Not (...)
On 22 June 1996 the Egyptian filmmaker, Salah Abou Seif, passed away at the age of 81 leaving behind more than forty films and a legacy in Egyptian cinema.
Not only did he contribute immensely in shaping Egypt's cinema and is considered the father (...)
During the festival this year's Cannes Film Festival the whole city seemed to be celebrating, with film posters in every nook and cranny, including a huge carrousel beside the palais.
This year the picture of Marilyn Monroe blowing out a candle was (...)
By 8th day of prestigious Cannes Film Festival, 14 movies have already been screened. Most have been well received by both critics and audiences, especially Austrian director Michael Haneke's 'Amour'
Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke's 'Amour' has (...)
Throughout the history of the film industry's most prestigious festival, there were a number of Arab films in the Official Selection; this year the Arab presence is more salient than in the past.
From the inaugural Cannes Film Festival in 1946 Egypt (...)
Among the directors to participate in this year's Cannes Film Festival will beMichael Haneke, Ken Loach, Abbas Kiarostami, Christian Mungiu and Jaques Audiard. Also among the competitors will also be the Egyptian Youssry Nasrallah, with his film (...)
Organised by regional culture outfit Al-Mawred Al-Thaqafy, this year's Spring Festival will offer a large variety of artists. Checkpoint 303, a band consisting of Palestinian and Tunisian artists, is definitely one of the more interesting (...)
A handful of Egyptian artists, actors and filmmakers gathered outside an Agouza court Thursday to protest a three-month jail sentence given to prominent Egyptian comedian Adel Imam for "defaming religion" and to show solidarity with filmmakers (...)