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The Tunisian Director Bringing a New Language to Arab Cinema

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By Alya Mooro Verified
| GQ Middle East Verified
At October’s El Gouna Film Festival, Where the Wind Comes From won the award for best Arab film. On stage, Tunisian writer-director Amel Guellaty stood in a floor-length green dress, catching her breath as she thanked her team in Arabic. The film had premiered earlier at Sundance, but this was its first time in front of a regional audience. It felt like a homecoming; the moment a filmmaker offers her work back to the region it came from, without translation.
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Shahad Ameen on Freedom, Film and Expanding Arab Womanhood

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By Alya Mooro Verified
| Vogue Arabia Verified
Overprotectiveness is often rooted in love, though Saudi filmmaker Shahad Ameen would’ve rolled her eyes at the idea just a few years ago. “All I do is learn and unlearn,” she says, laughing. “Personally, every film needs to be somewhat of a spiritual experience – for me and for the characters. Otherwise, you’re just making entertainment.” Hijra goes beyond mere entertainment to delve deep into culture, growth and the enduring love that binds families together.
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Annemarie Jacir on the Resistance of Remembering

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By Alya Mooro Verified
| Vogue Arabia Verified
“This is the origin story. One cannot understand the Nakba, the Intifada or today without understanding how the stage was set in those years,” writer and director Annemarie Jacir says of Palestine 36, her decade-in-the-making fourth feature film. Just days earlier, it received the longest standing ovation in Toronto International Film Festival’s (TIFF) history, lasting over 15 minutes.
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