Italian actress Cristina Parovel dives from charming to conscious roles in Hollywood by Sherif Awad Although the European film industry is quite vast, rewarding and prosperous among many European countries and beyond, many European-born artists tend not only to co-star…
by Sherif Awad This long narrative is the directorial debut by Russian-born Alisa Khazanova, a former Bolshoi ballerina who also wrote and produced. Khazanova, as an actress, co-starred in 18 other TV and film production including THE WOMAN IN BLACK…
by Sherif Awad Rising actress Christine Solomon is of Egyptian, Syrian and Lebanese ethnicity. Talent runs in the family as she is related to notable Egyptian director Sandra Nashaat and Egyptian director of photography Victor Credi. Born in Egypt, Christine…
by Sherif Awad Among the films screened at the competition of the 31st Alexandria Film Festival for Mediterranean Countries (2-8 September), is Sworn Virgin, an Albanian-Italian drama revolving around Hana (Alba Rohrwacher), a young woman who is growing up in…
by Sherif Awad Although many Arab performers dream of reallocating in Egypt, Heind Sabry and Dorra are few of the Tunisian actresses who became superstars in the Egyptian film and TV to the extent that they both stopped working elsewhere.…
by Sherif Awad A Georgian rising actress presented her film about arranged marriage during Aswan Festival. Among the ten films screened in the long film competition of the 2nd Aswan International Women Film Festival (AIWFF) last February, was the Georgian…
by Sherif Awad Although many Arab actors and actresses migrated from their own countries to land in Cairo where they consecutive careers significantly kickstarted on Egyptian film and on TV, it is hard to imagine that a foreign western or…
by Sherif Awad Férid Boughedir’s Sweet Smell of Spring, the Best Film Winner of Afaq El-Cinema El-Arabia section (Prospects of Arab Cinema) in the latest 38th edition of Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF) that took place from 15 till 24…
