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If you are a fan of The Coen Brothers movies, then you shouldn’t miss The Unknown Saint. Set in a remote drought-ridden area in Morocco, the movie’s opening scene is of a man reaching the place with a duffel bag full of stolen money.He takes a shovel and goes uphill where he buries it and to disguise it even further, shapes it like a grave before going...

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Alaa Eddine Aljem’s debut feature The Unknown Saint has come out out of nowhere to inject Arab cinema with a breath of fresh air. It’s that rarest of beasts: a smart, side-splitting Arab comedy tackling collective faith, the presiding craving for a saviour and the primal necessity of finding meaning, or rather conjuring up one. Film director Alaa Eddine Aljem (Unifrance) The underlying sentiment is simple, as Aljem explains:  “We, as a nation, need something to believe in. We cannot be ...

okayafrica Still taken from film trailer. One of These Films Could Win Africa the Oscar This Year Here are 11 Oscar-Worthy African Feature Films to Watch While Ivory Coasts Night of the Kings and Tunisias The Man Who Sold His Skin have been shortlisted for the "Best International Feature Film", here are 9 additional films that made strong contenders for an Oscar. The Oscars are only a few months away. While Tunisia and Ivory Coast were the only African countries to have been sh...

 12 Feb 2021 - 9:38 Snapshot from trailer of Notturno Raynald C.Rivera Notturno, a film by Italian director, cinematographer, producer and screenwriter Gianfranco Rosi, has made the Oscars shortlist for Best Documentary Feature following a preliminary voting by the members of the Academy. Co-financed by Doha Film Institute (DFI), Notturno is among the list of 15 films chosen from among 238 films eligible for the award which was announced on Tuesday along with eight other categories. Shot over...