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229 articles available in total starting from 17/10/2023. Last article published on 23/05/2025.

Review: Aisha Can’t Fly Away

Review: Aisha Can’t Fly Away

CANNES 2025: Morad Mostafa crafts a debut feature that’s cinematically familiar in its festival aesthetic but is let down by a surface-level story despite its weighty themes  

23/05 | Cannes 2025 | Un Certain Regard

Review: We Are Two Abysses

Review: We Are Two Abysses

Kopal Joshy’s debut film explores the unconventional symbiotic relationship between herself and an older man she met by accident in the mountains of Portugal  

13/05 | IndieLisboa 2025

Review: Downriver a Tiger

Review: Downriver a Tiger

Víctor Diago’s debut feature is a dreamlike look into the life of a Spanish woman in Glasgow as she floats through the city, camera in hand  

13/05 | IndieLisboa 2025

Pluto Film sells Night Passengers in Cannes

Pluto Film sells Night Passengers in Cannes

The German company takes the sophomore feature of Portuguese director Pedro Cabeleira, a crime drama that promises to thrill, to the Marché du Film  

12/05 | Cannes 2025 | Marché du Film

m-appeal selling Lucio Castro’s Cannes ACID title Drunken Noodles

m-appeal selling Lucio Castro’s Cannes ACID title Drunken Noodles

The Berlin-based sales agent looks to continue its success at the Marché du Film with this queer movie as well as several lauded works from the Berlinale  

12/05 | Cannes 2025 | Marché du Film

Paula Tomás Marques • Director of Two Times João Liberada

Interview: Paula Tomás Marques • Director of Two Times João Liberada

"We had a synopsis of a violent life, and we didn't want to portray that"

The Portuguese director discusses her collaborative process, the act of transcending temporality and creating the film’s tangible materiality on celluloid  

08/05 | IndieLisboa 2025

Alexandre Koberidze’s Dry Leaf is now in post-production

Alexandre Koberidze’s Dry Leaf is now in post-production

The director’s third film is a road movie set across Georgia, centring on the search for a missing photographer who was last seen snapping football stadiums around the country  

08/05 | Germany/Georgia

Adnan Hrustemović’s Evil Eye enters post-production

Adnan Hrustemović’s Evil Eye enters post-production

The director makes his feature debut with the story of a retired surgeon whose life changes after an encounter with a girl who reports being plagued by a curse  

23/04 | Production | Funding | Bosnia and Herzegovina

Production begins on Randa Chahoud’s Identitti

Production begins on Randa Chahoud’s Identitti

Based on a bestseller by Mithu Sanyal, the story centres on a doctoral student and blogger who discovers a shocking secret about her Postcolonial Theory professor  

22/04 | Production | Funding | Germany

Aisha Can’t Fly Away becomes the first Egyptian film in Un Certain Regard since 2016

Aisha Can’t Fly Away becomes the first Egyptian film in Un Certain Regard since 2016

Morad Mostafa’s debut feature follows the eponymous 26-year-old immigrant and caregiver navigating violent tensions in the Cairo neighbourhood of Ain Shams  

18/04 | Production | Funding | Egypt/France/Germany/Tunisia/Saudi Arabia/Qatar/Sudan

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