Turning Pain into a Message: Films on Women and by Women at Beirut Film Festival
Going to a festival is always an adventure, and as the very word “festival” suggests, it is a pleasant one. Yet a month prior to the Beirut International Women Film Festival, I lost my sleep, and instead of the usual anticipation filled with curiosity, I took a ride on an emotional rollercoaster of fears and […]
Female Portraits in Kurdish Cinema: Surviving as a Shadow in the World of Men
At the end of 2024, I got the chance to visit a destination that confused my insurance agent a lot: Iraqi Kurdistan, where I was invited as a juror for the 11th Duhok International Film Festival. As I was informed, the region wasn’t covered by my insurance company (based in the EU) due to the […]
Dhaka International Film Festival 2023: Female Characters in the Modern Bengali Cinema
The festival year started for me in a most unexpected way, on January 14, 2023, I landed in Bangladesh, a place I’d never been before and would not have normally made it a destination. But I had been invited to serve in the International Film Critics jury at the 21st edition of DIFF after a […]