Egyptian cinema is one of the oldest and most prolific in the Arab world, with Cairo long nicknamed the Hollywood of the East. Youssef Chahine's Cairo Station remains one of its most celebrated works, a raw, melodramatic masterpiece that put Egyptian film on the international map. See what Macca made of it and more below.
Rating: 3.5★
Egypt in 1881 sat at a peculiar crossroads: the Ottoman-backed Khedivate was losing its grip, European financial interests were tightening around the country like a slow vice, and the great pharaonic sites of the Nile Valley were being systematically stripped, catalogued, and shipped westward. It was into this charged
Rating: 4.0★
Sudan is not a country with a long or well-resourced filmmaking tradition. Decades of conflict, economic instability, and a cultural climate that offered little institutional support for the arts meant that, for much of the twentieth century, Sudanese cinema barely existed as a going concern. That context matters when
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Cinema has long wrestled with the Palestinian experience, but rarely with the scope and emotional weight that All That's Left of You attempts. The film opens in the Occupied West Bank of the 1980s, where a single act of protest by a teenage boy sets in motion a
Genre Crime
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