by Sherif Awad Despite all the shocking news we hear every day  about Egypt, its new president, it former SCAF and Tahrir Square, life still goes on at least in film festivals’ community...

by Sherif Awad A new documentary called Children of the Nile marks another chapter of the ongoing French interest in Egyptian heritage whether it is ancient or modern. Its French director Aurélie...

by Sherif Awad Italians were the oldest European community in Egypt and the most amalgamated into the Egyptian society. Mosques such as Omar Makram in Cairo and Mursi Abou-Al-Abbas. in Alexandria were...

by Sherif Awad The rise of Turkish TV production in the last two decades followed the footsteps of Turkish cinema that is being acclaimed in world festivals.  The popularity of Turkish content...

by Sherif Awad Documentary filmmaker Jehane Noujaim has made a name for herself in the last decade through a handful of powerful social and political documentaries with varied subjects and locations...

by Sherif Awad Can an artist kill for inspiration? Can art inspire vicious crimes? These are the questions raised by many films I have seen during Tribeca Festival last month. Eddie the Sleepwalking...

by Sherif Awad Watching this new horror/comedy brought back memories of the mid 1980s when I first rented from a Cairo video club a VHS copy of The Toxic Avenger. During that period, I was only...

by Sherif Awad This long film was the official nomination of South Africa for the ‘Best Foreign Language Film’ of the 89th Academy Awards (The Oscars) of 2017. Noem My Skollie or Call Me...

by Sherif Awad A new short film from Argentina, inspired by the cinema of fantasy and science fiction of the 1950s. It tells the story of a child called Serguei who, through his effort and courage...