Film

The Iranian filmmaker Narges Abyar, who made such films as When the Moon was Full (2019), Breath (2016), and Track 143 (2014) has no doubt that the world needs more talented female filmmakers. Actually, there is a ‘dire need’ for them, she finds.

Around the globe, football is far and away the world’s most dominant and popular sport. In the United States, though, it’s known as soccer, and American football (that oddly named game which actually involves very little kicking) is the cultural king.

The history of Syrian cinema is inextricably linked to its political history beginning in 1920 when the French took colonial control, forcing King Faisal to leave the country. Under their rule, many theatres were built in Damascus, but they screened primarily French films.

While advances in treatment have bolstered the cumulative cure rate, incidences of childhood cancer have spiked roughly 30 percent since the 1970s, and it seems not unreasonable to assume some causal link between this statistical climb and a fairly sustained pattern of environmental deregulation and degradation. Phosfate, an investigative documentary newly available on streaming, uses Florida as a compelling case study for this premise, resulting in an agitative work that sounds like a clarion call for greater citizen involvement in protecting water and natural resources.

Egypt is among the oldest producers of films in the world. Egyptian cinema was born in 1896 when the Lumière Brothers’ screened a short film in Alexandria, only a year after its premiere in France.

In January 2019, outside the Lincoln Memorial, cameras captured an interaction between a group of teenage boys from Kentucky’s Covington Catholic, in Washington D. C.

Born in 1931, Alvin Ailey Jr. , the pioneering African-American dancer, director, and choreographer, who helped change the landscape of modern dance, would have been 90 this year.

An engaging, candid documentary look at award-winning Swedish auteur Roy Andersson as told chiefly through the lens of his work on his self-proclaimed last film, Being a Human Person is a movie that gives ample consideration to its subject’s primary professional thematic preoccupations: vulnerability, insecurity, and the weight of mortality. It also serves to celebrate more broadly humanity’s inherent need for art, and its use as a salve for what burdens us.