Having already screened at three film festivals in Sydney this year and premiering on television tonight on the World Movies channel, Beirut-set satire Halal Love (And Sex) is making waves internationally. Mehal […]
Halal love – in Beirut
Past and present collide in A Time to Rest
Miriam Succar reviews A Time to Rest, which screened at this year’s St George Bank Lebanese Film Festival. Award-winning film, A Time to Rest, is a 2015 Lebanese documentary filmed in Beirut […]
Barakah Meets Barakah: a Rom-Com with an endearing, Saudi twist
By Amal Awad There is no denying that Arab cinema is emerging on the international scene as a dynamic industry that deals in real life with both comedic flair and gritty reality. […]
Ron Senkowski takes ‘Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet’ to a mythical place
The animated film adaptation of Kahlil Gibran’s classic, The Prophet, premiered in Sydney at the Lebanese Film Festival last week. Melissa Lahoud spoke to Hollywood producer Ron Senkowski about reworking a literary […]
The faithful fall for anything in Lebanese movie Ghadi
Amin Dora’s Lebanese film Ghadi (2013) steers away from the themes we have come to expect in Arab cinema. Full of clever, side-splitting commentary about religious gullibility and poor community attitudes towards people with […]
