Aicha Tebbae News Today

Cruise & co firing on all cylinders in latest Mission: Impossible, plus Pierce Brosnan in fun caper comedy The Out-Laws, French satire Smoking Causes Coughing, and Morocco-set drama The Damned Don’t Cry

Fyzal Boulifa’s intense drama about this unusually tight family unit fleeing scandal and debt is a painterly triumph

Fyzal Boulifa's impressive second feature explores class, shame and identity. Review by Markie Robson-Scott

The setting is northern Morocco, and eventually Tangier, while the deftly played protagonists are doting yet cash-strapped mother Fatima-Zahra (Aicha Tebbae) and her adoring teenage son Selim (Abdellah El Hajjouji)

The acclaimed British-Moroccan director, who made his name with 2019’s Lynn + Lucy, on growing up in white working-class Leicester, filming with nuance and the brutality of London

07/03/2023 - Rolf de Heer's The Survival of Kindness, Fyzal Boulifa’s The Damned Don’t Cry and Mladomir Puriša Đorđević's Mouth Full of Earth also won prizes

07/03/2023 - Rolf de Heer's The Survival of Kindness, Fyzal Boulifa’s The Damned Don’t Cry and Mladomir Puriša Đorđević's Mouth Full of Earth also won prizes

While global commercial success eludes the region's filmmakers, critically there have been a number of notable releases

In the post-pandemic world, American movies are increasingly crowding out independent and world cinema, including Arab offerings

The 79th Venice International Film Festival has drawn to a close after an intense 11 days. Despite new movies from Darren Aronofsky, Andrew Dominik and others, the big talking point on social media was Olivia Wilde's out-of-competition entry Don't Worry Darling. Florence Pugh didn't turn up to the press conference, further fuelling rumours that she and Wilde are feuding. Then...