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Ali Abassi's Trump biopic is a good film, better than most will think, regardless of what politics you follow.

The documentary Like Tears in Rain by the late Rutger Hauer's goddaughter Sanna Fabery de Jonge recently played at the Nederlands Film Festival (NFF). The film paints an intimate picture of the actor. Hauer, who was born in 1944 in...

At a press conference in Cannes in 1990, director Jean Luc Godard said about his choice of Alain Delon for the role of the hitchhiker in his movie New Wave: 'There was a role for 'him' in which I saw...

A peerless actress was Gena Rowlands. She was also the muse of actor and rightly renowned avant-garde filmmaker John Cassavetes (†1989), to whom she was married from 1954. It was an inspiration that was mutual. A number of great Cassavetes...

The British BBC documentary Ukraine: Enemy in the Woods dryly and with restraint shows the harshness and bloodiness of life and death on the Ukrainian front this past winter. Drones and increasingly precise artillery are turning life on both sides...

The closing awards ceremony of the fifth edition of the Amman International Film Festival – Awal Film were held on the 11th of juli at the Royal Film Commission – Jordan, one of the most scenic movie theatres in the...

My Sweet Land of Sareen Hairabedian was one of the stronger films in a small but mostly strong feature documentary competition section of the 2024 Amman International Film Festival. The film gained not only the International Film Critics Fipresci Award...

The last six months of 2024 contain two more days than the first six do (courtesy of February, even in a leap year as this one...), so we could stretch it a day, but now there's no avoiding it any...

The Amman International Film Festival - Awal Film (AIFF) is celebrating its fifth edition this summer, in what is shaping up to be a hot July for the Middle East. Among the more than 30 long films and many short...