Who Is Still Alive review: Gaza’s unfathomable loss told one story at a time
Every story from Gaza is a record of what no human being should experience in a just world. We can conceptualise war, bombing and mass killing in the abstract. We are inundated with images of all three. But focus on the experience of any one person and comprehension begins to fail. Who Is Still Alive, […]
How a broken fridge inspired Egyptian director Yasser Shafiey’s acclaimed feature debut
A broken refrigerator may not sound like a promising premise for a movie. But in the hands of blossoming Egyptian director Yasser Shafiey, it takes a different turn. Shafiey’s feature debut, Complaint No 713317, stems from something all too familiar. It tells the story of an ageing Cairo couple as they battle for months with […]