Do the dead come back to reclaim the rights they were deprived of in life? This is what Atlantics, a 2019 supernatural romantic drama film directed by Mati Diop, examines though the trajectory of Senegalese construction workers who attempt a perilous sea journey to Europe.
Through its dreamy landscape of a busy metropolis, this documentary-style drama pinpoints and shades the ‘light’ of three working women. Struggling to make ends meet, these characters try to find the light among each other no matter how hard it is to imagine.
Since the first episodes of the series Wlad Badia (Badia’s Sons) started airing, female roles emerged clear and strong, breaking away from the stereotypical portrayal of women.
As a response to the crisis in the country, Lebanese cinema has started to favor collaboration and sharing. Meet the women who are leading the way.
Director Manal Khaled’s “Trapped” is inspired by real events that took place during the early days of the Tahrir Square uprising. The film’s screenwriter Rasha Azab talks to us about it.
The world of cinema has always been a mirror of society, one that amplifies its questions and debates. The two recent films Barbie and Oppenheimer, both vying for first place at the box office, have generated heated and diametrically opposed reactions, highlighting the extreme polarization of people’s opinions.
Between Barbie and Taylor Swift, blondes are reclaiming their power. These new pop culture phenomena prove one thing: the importance of the female point of view.
In this powerful portrait of a teenage girl who discovers that the relationship between her and her father is actually one of a pedophile and his victim, Dalva goes from denial to trauma, coming up against the violence she was subjected to in order to rebuild herself. Powerful and moving, this first film by young French director Emmanuelle Nicot is now showing in theaters across Italy.
A period film, a Shakespearean tragedy, a feminist movie? The Last Queen is all of the above. The film brings to life a period of Algerian history never represented on screen. Queens, corsairs, blood, and love—and above all, Algiers, conquered but never submissive.
The women depicted in the great Latin and Greek classics are secondary characters who evolve silently in the background of the heroic deeds of valiant warriors and powerful and capricious gods. Both marginal and submissive, their beauty can nonetheless trigger bloody wars and they are constantly victims of kidnappings and male violence…
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