Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, “To Each His Own Cinema” brought together 33 of the world’s pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the…
The story is set in the 12th century in Arab-ruled Spanish province Andalusia, where famed philosopher Averroes is appointed grand judge by the caliph and his liberal court judgements are…
Adapted from Abdel Rahman Al-Sharqawi’s well-known novel of the same name, this classic film by Egyptian master Youssef Chahine was eight years in the making. Chronicling a small peasant village’s…
When a free-spirited sailor is found murdered, his twin brother–a famous novelist–is the prime suspect. Investigators uncover a possible liaison between the dead sailor and the writer’s wife, and also…
