Love can be painful, hard and overbearing. That’s particularly true when it comes to maternal love in the Middle East, a region where love is... Read More
Mina Takla
Mina Takla is a foreign correspondent for AwardsWatch and the co-founder of The Syndicate, an online news agency that offers original content services to several film brands including Empire Magazine’s Middle East edition and the Dubai Film Festival. Takla has attended, covered and written for multiple film festivals online including the Dubai International Film Festival, Abu Dhabi Film Festival, Cannes, Venice, Berlin and Annecy Film Festivals. He has been following the Oscar race since 2000 with accurate, office-pool winning predictions year after year. He writes monthly in Empire Arabia, the Arabic version of the world’s top cinema magazine and conducts press junkets with Hollywood stars in the UK and the US. He holds a Master’s degree in Strategic Marketing from Australia’s Wollongong University and is currently based in Dubai, UAE.
This review contains spoilers. In her feature film debut Shayda, which will represent Australia in this year’s Best International Feature Film Oscar race, Iranian-Australian filmmaker... Read More
Egyptian-Austrian filmmaker Abu Bakr Shawky made quite the splash in 2018 with his debut feature film Yomeddine which became the first ever Egyptian debut film... Read More
Conventional but still enjoyable, Taika Waititi’s Next Goal Wins presents the real story of the American Samoa football team, who had broken the record for... Read More
Making the transition from cinematography to directing, Ellen Kuras delivers a biopic that, while boasting competent technical credits, lacks the ambition, risk-taking and ferocious nature... Read More
In Pain Hustlers, David Yates embarks on a different kind of project that couldn’t be further away from his recent franchise output (most notably 7... Read More
Palestinian British filmmaker Farah Nabulsi’s previous short film, The Present, catapulted her to worldwide acclaim with its heartfelt story about parental love and sacrifice. Now... Read More
Five years ago, French filmmaker Ladj Ly made quite the splash with his debut feature Les Misérables, a harrowing, gut-wrenching story of how powerless, marginalized... Read More
Films like Perfect Days are rare to come by. Rather than opting for a clear-cut narrative with dramatic twists and turns, this is a quiet,... Read More
A few years after Saudi cinema made a splash with Haifa Al Mansour’s Wadjda and the Perfect Candidate, the Kingdom witnessed a major overhaul with... Read More
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