16-06-2016

Fighting back with a camera

Interview with Marie-Rose Osta

Marie-Rose Osta’s last project, called “GangBang”, is a short, catchy silent movie that was screened during the last Lebanese Film Festival in Beirut.

21-09-2014

Cinema Filistin

Visual Sunday

German photographer Julius Matuschik documented the last remaining movie theatres in Palestine in his “Cinema Filistin” series.

04-06-2014

What if humans could overcome mortality? This question is at the core of Lebanese writer and director Darine Hotait’s the short science fiction movie Orb.

18-03-2013

Karachi mobile cinema

Tentative Collective

Mera Karachi Mobile Cinema is a collaborative initiative between various marginalised and migrant communities to organise free screenings of short films made with cell phones using a rickshaw-powered projector.

26-12-2012

Art rising from the streets

Cairo initiatives

Many Egyptian cultural initiatives thrived in the euphoric energy settling in downtown Cairo since the revolution. Art is rising from the streets.

04-11-2012

The slap

Visual Sunday

Sarcastic, irreverent, The Slap, by Iranian director Ehsan Amani, uses codes from silent film to make fun of its characters and our preconceptions.

Khartoum’s old cinema houses live on – and speak about the current and past relationship between the city and those who live in it

31-08-2012

A weird passion

Old Turkish "remake" films grow international fandom

In recent years, the strange sci-fi and action film remakes from Turkey in the 70s and 80s have grown their own online international cult following

30-06-2012

Charlie Chaplin and social networks

"I want my life back"

Modern Times is a short film describing the life of an ordinary man in Izmir. We spoke to the director Aykut Alp Ersoy

23-05-2012

Faten Hamama

Egyptian legend

Egypt’s Faten Hamama, one of Arab cinema’s great legends and known the 50s & 60s as ‘The Lady of the Arabic Screen’, is still recording movies.

Stories: Palestine

24-10-2016

India sees Palestine through art

Travelling Gaza exhibit
10-09-2014

To walk Palestine

Expanding a shrinking country
19-11-2012

Life in Gaza

Visual Sunday
05-01-2012

A metro for Gaza

Unveiling the underground

Series

Projects

Beirut re-collected

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Our Mediterranean

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Journalism and Migration Workshop

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