Dubai Winner Blog Posts

129. Chadean filmmaker Mahamet-Saleh Haroun's “Un Homme Qui Crie” (A Screaming Man) (2010): A subtle perspective from African cinema on an unusual father and son relationship

“Be careful not to cross your arms over your chest,  assuming the sterile attitude of a spectator,  because life is not a spectacle,  a sea of pain is not a proscenium,  and a screaming man is not a dancing b...
by Movies that make you think on Jun 27, 2012

125. Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “Bir Zamanlar Anadolu’da” (Once Upon a Time in Anatolia) (2011): Truth buried alive--a tale seldom told, in a manner rarely employed

Turkish cinema made an impact on the world map in the earlyEighties essentially because the honest nationalist realism of the Kurd actor/screenplay-writer/directorYilmaz Güney was blooming and gaining world attention. Güney, like many outstanding I...
by Movies that make you think on Feb 5, 2012
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