The Speech That Shook Hollywood: Vanessa Redgrave and the 1978 Oscar Scandal
The reality is, there exists, within US-American public discourse, a relatively narrow and informal but strongly enforced boundary defining what counts as legitimate speech. Once you cross it, you will stop being treated as someone pointing out a problem and will instead be treated as the root of the problem itself.
Against All Odds and Algorithms: a love letter to independent cinema
This is my love letter to cinema—and more specifically, independent cinema. I love it because it stubbornly refuses to treat a film like a product on a shelf or a line on a financial spreadsheet. It treats film as an unfiltered human pulse. It's the raw, honest, and beautifully messy truth of our lives up on the screen, and as long as I am curating, programming, and breathing, I never want to stop looking for it.
Are We Also Olive Trees in Exile? A Conversation with Filmmaker Abdallah Dannaoui
How do you capture the grief of exile when news cameras only focus on war? In Bitter Greens, Tangled Roots, director Abdallah Dannaoui uses intimate WhatsApp calls and quiet landscapes to explore memory, displacement, and what it means to stay rooted far from home.
Are We Also Olive Trees in Exile? A Conversation with Filmmaker Abdallah Dannaoui
How do you capture the grief of exile when news cameras only focus on war? In Bitter Greens, Tangled Roots, director Abdallah Dannaoui uses intimate WhatsApp calls and quiet landscapes to explore memory, displacement, and what it means to stay rooted far from home.
The Speech That Shook Hollywood: Vanessa Redgrave and the 1978 Oscar Scandal
The reality is, there exists, within US-American public discourse, a relatively narrow and informal but strongly enforced boundary defining what counts as legitimate speech. Once you cross it, you will stop being treated as someone pointing out a problem and will instead be treated as the root of the problem itself.
Against All Odds and Algorithms: a love letter to independent cinema
This is my love letter to cinema—and more specifically, independent cinema. I love it because it stubbornly refuses to treat a film like a product on a shelf or a line on a financial spreadsheet. It treats film as an unfiltered human pulse. It's the raw, honest, and beautifully messy truth of our lives up on the screen, and as long as I am curating, programming, and breathing, I never want to stop looking for it.
Are We Also Olive Trees in Exile? A Conversation with Filmmaker Abdallah Dannaoui
How do you capture the grief of exile when news cameras only focus on war? In Bitter Greens, Tangled Roots, director Abdallah Dannaoui uses intimate WhatsApp calls and quiet landscapes to explore memory, displacement, and what it means to stay rooted far from home.
Are We Also Olive Trees in Exile? A Conversation with Filmmaker Abdallah Dannaoui
How do you capture the grief of exile when news cameras only focus on war? In Bitter Greens, Tangled Roots, director Abdallah Dannaoui uses intimate WhatsApp calls and quiet landscapes to explore memory, displacement, and what it means to stay rooted far from home.
Rawy is dedicated to promoting independent films from the South West Asia and North Africa (SWANA) region. We organize Pop-up Cinema events worldwide, fostering cultural exchange and stimulating dialogue around films.
Rawy is dedicated to promoting independent films from the South West Asia and North Africa (SWANA) region. We organize Pop-up Cinema events worldwide, fostering cultural exchange and stimulating dialogue around films.
ALFILM Arab Film Festival | Ep. 4 Rawy Talks with Suzannah Mirghani & Mihad Murtada
In the episode of Rawy Talks, we sit down with Suzannah Mirghani and Mihad Murtada
to discuss their latest film, Cotton Queen, which explores generational divides among women in Sudan, following a young girl as she tenderly and courageously carves out a space for herself and her voice within her community.
ALFILM Arab Film Festival | Ep. 4 Rawy Talks with Suzannah Mirghani & Mihad Murtada
In the episode of Rawy Talks, we sit down with Suzannah Mirghani and Mihad Murtada
to discuss their latest film, Cotton Queen, which explores generational divides among women in Sudan, following a young girl as she tenderly and courageously carves out a space for herself and her voice within her community.
Are We Also Olive Trees in Exile? A Conversation with Filmmaker Abdallah Dannaoui
How do you capture the grief of exile when news cameras only focus on war? In Bitter Greens, Tangled Roots, director Abdallah Dannaoui uses intimate WhatsApp calls and quiet landscapes to explore memory, displacement, and what it means to stay rooted far from home.
The Speech That Shook Hollywood: Vanessa Redgrave and the 1978 Oscar Scandal
The reality is, there exists, within US-American public discourse, a relatively narrow and informal but strongly enforced boundary defining what counts as legitimate speech.
Against All Odds and Algorithms:
a love letter to independent cinema
This is my love letter to cinema—and more specifically, independent cinema. I love it because it stubbornly refuses to treat a film like a product on a shelf or a line on a financial spreadsheet. It treats film as an unfiltered human pulse.