Seven years after showcasing “You Make a Better Window Than You Do a Door” at Visions du Réel’s Short Film competition strand, Lebanese-born Farah Kassem is back in Nyon, this time in the main international competition with her doc feature-length debut “We Are Inside.” Variety was granted access to the trailer.
The film was produced by the helmer’s regular collaborator Cynthia Choucair of Lebanon’s Road2Films, in co-production with Qatar’s Al Jazeera Documentary Channel and Denmark’s Good Company Pictures.
The seven-year gap since Kassem started working on “We Are Inside” was a transformative period for her and her native country as she underscored in a statement. “I witnessed, among others things a sense of deterioration and destruction, that will be very difficult to come back from. We’ve witnessed a revolution, the 4th of August Beirut explosion, the on-going massacres in Gaza and the attacks on Lebanon,...
The film was produced by the helmer’s regular collaborator Cynthia Choucair of Lebanon’s Road2Films, in co-production with Qatar’s Al Jazeera Documentary Channel and Denmark’s Good Company Pictures.
The seven-year gap since Kassem started working on “We Are Inside” was a transformative period for her and her native country as she underscored in a statement. “I witnessed, among others things a sense of deterioration and destruction, that will be very difficult to come back from. We’ve witnessed a revolution, the 4th of August Beirut explosion, the on-going massacres in Gaza and the attacks on Lebanon,...
- 4/12/2024
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
Aflamuna Connection, formerly known as Beirut Cinema Platform, has selected 14 feature film projects to participate in its eighth edition, which will be the first edition to be held under the new name Aflamuna (Our films).
Reflecting emerging Arab filmmaker voices, the 14 projects range between fiction, docu-fiction and documentaries, and feature 11 projects in development and three in post-production. The selected projects come from Sudan, Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, Jordan, Palestine and Saudi Arabia.
Titles include Moondove, Lebanese filmmaker Karim Kassem’s docu-fiction about a female artist returning to a village outside Beirut after living abroad. Kassem’s documentary Octopus won...
Reflecting emerging Arab filmmaker voices, the 14 projects range between fiction, docu-fiction and documentaries, and feature 11 projects in development and three in post-production. The selected projects come from Sudan, Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, Jordan, Palestine and Saudi Arabia.
Titles include Moondove, Lebanese filmmaker Karim Kassem’s docu-fiction about a female artist returning to a village outside Beirut after living abroad. Kassem’s documentary Octopus won...
- 3/22/2024
- ScreenDaily
William Friedkin had a great run in the '70s. His hard-nosed police thriller "The French Connection" dominated the 1972 Oscars, winning five Academy Awards including the big prizes for Best Picture, Director, and Actor for Gene Hackman. He followed that critical and commercial success with "The Exorcist," which courted controversy but nevertheless became a box office smash and the first horror movie to receive an Oscar nomination for Best Picture. It also secured a second Best Director nomination for Friedkin.
He might have made it three in a row with "Sorcerer," his gripping remake of Henri-Georges Clouzot's 1953 suspense thriller "The Wages of Fear," if it wasn't for bad timing. It had the misfortune to be released in 1977 a month after "Star Wars," which was smashing it at the box office and well on its way to becoming a global phenomenon. As audiences were swept away by George Lucas's brand of escapist space fantasy,...
He might have made it three in a row with "Sorcerer," his gripping remake of Henri-Georges Clouzot's 1953 suspense thriller "The Wages of Fear," if it wasn't for bad timing. It had the misfortune to be released in 1977 a month after "Star Wars," which was smashing it at the box office and well on its way to becoming a global phenomenon. As audiences were swept away by George Lucas's brand of escapist space fantasy,...
- 5/14/2023
- by Lee Adams
- Slash Film
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