by Sherif Awad  Last week, Deauville Film Festival announced that French director Benoît Jacquot will be jury president for its 41st edition that will take place from the 4th till the 13th of...

by Sherif Awad I cannot believe that 22 years have already passed since I first saw Jurassic Park in a midnight advance screening at one of Cairo theaters. In that year, 1993, everybody was so...

by Sherif Awad Since its release six weeks ago, Avengers: Age of Ultron has succeeded to gross around 1.35 billion dollars worldwide by attracting the fans of comic books and action films alike...

by Sherif Awad It is no secret that Hollywood is keeping on remaking and rebooting its classic library of films and that the period between the original and the re-imagined is becoming more and more...

by Sherif Awad The word “diaspora” comes from the Greek word diasperien that reflects the forced or voluntary dispersion of people from their countries due to economic, political, or...

by Sherif Awad On April 28, international cinema have lost one of the leading French filmmakers, the 69 years-old René Féret, who was known for directing 19 features and also producing for himself and...

by Sherif Awad  With international actors like Max Von Sydow and Jean Reno and American actors like John Cusack and even Tom Cruise played contract killers in different films with different tones...

by Sherif Awad In last week’s article, I explained how the three presidents of juries, including myself, spent the period of the 7th FESTICAB Festival in Bujumbura at the confines of our hotel after...

by Sherif Awad After Akrykamera in Warsaw, the seventh edition of the International Festival of Cinema and Audiovisual in Burundi (FESTICAB) started on April 24 and lasted until April 30 in the...