Movie Review: Goodbye Julia
Screened at El Gouna Film Festival 2023 One-liner: What this compelling, layered and taut social drama turned character portrait lacks
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Sina Muhammed on ‘Transient Happiness’
Sina Muhammed’s feature film debut is Transient Happiness, a drama that blurs the line between fiction and reality with uncommon
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Lubdhak Chatterjee on ‘Whispers of Fire & Water’
Lubdhak Chatterjee’s first feature film, Whispers of Fire & Water is a bold, experimental and experiential eco-film turned meditation with
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Movie Review: Whispers of Fire & Water
Screened at El Gouna Film Festival 2023 One-liner: Enigmatic and immersive sound and visuals are undermined by an experimental appetite,
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Movie Review: Transient Happiness
Screened at El Gouna Film Festival 2023 One-liner: While short-lived and misframed, this remains an authentic, bittersweet, colourful, gentle and
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Ebrahim Nash’at on ‘Hollywoodgate’
Hailing from Egypt, journalist turned filmmaker Ibrahim Nash’at now calls Berlin home but his lens travels beyond borders. Nash’at crafts
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Movie Review: If Only I Could Hibernate
Screened at El Gouna Film Festival 2023 One-liner: An authentic, vivid, heartfelt, inspirational, spirited and well-acted dramedy about the perseverance
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Movie Review: Dreaming & Dying
Screened at El Gouna Film Festival 2023 One-liner: While modest, disconnected, naive and outlandish, this is an absurb, quirky, original
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Movie Review: Q
Screened at El Gouna Film Festival 2023 One-liner: While distant and obscured, this remains a haunting, intimate and wistful family
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Movie Review: Hollywoodgate
Screened at El Gouna Film Festival 2023 One-liner: A bold, entertaining, unsettling, thought-provoking and unprecedented fly-on-the-wall war documentary and cautionary
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