Valentine’s Day is a bore. Forced romance, cheesy movies, lots of greeting cards and flowers. Ugh. If you feel the same, and have decided to not brave the subzero temperatures for a candlelit dinner at an overpriced restaurant, here are a few movies you can watch on your couch in a pair of...
When it comes to cinema, Saudi Arabia does not have much of a tradition, with only a few feature films and documentaries produced every year. But a group of young independent filmmakers from Jeddah are hoping to change that - by bringing their film to the Berlin film festival. Barakah Meets Barakah, a quirky...
Written, edited and directed by award-winning filmmaker Mustafa Abbas, Sunset State explores the fantasies, dreams and memories of two men: an American novelist and an Emirati college student. The nostalgic tale reveals that people are not creatures of logic, but rather emotion. Selected at the following Film Festivals Dubai International Film Festival Cannes Film Festival...
For nearly three decades Mark Lee Ping-bin has collaborated with many of the most urgent filmmakers in Asia. As the primary cinematographer to Hou Hsiao-hsien, lensing classics such as A Time to Live and a Time to Die (SFIFF 1987), Goodbye South, Goodbye (SFIFF 1997, 2003) and Three Times (SFIFF 2006), Lee...