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Ibrahim El Batout
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Ahmad Abdalla
12 min read
How have films that fictionalized January 25 progressed over 5 years?
Rowan El Shimi
| Perhaps this trend reveals that what seemed to us right from the beginning as immediately cinematic –
Amr Waked
10 min read
Four takes on Ibrahim El Batout’s Al-Ott
Jenifer Evans, Amany Ali Shawky, Andeel and Rowan El Shimi
| The first 20 minutes were pretty strong.
Ahmad Abdalla
22 min read
Ahmad Abdalla’s Decor, and the personal vs. the common
Andeel and Ahmed Refaat
| Decor is Ahmad Abdalla’s fourth feature. It’s a black-and-white movie about Maha (Horeya Farghaly)
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Amir Ramses
6 min read
Four much anticipated Arabic films hit cinemas
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