Carol Polakoff

Dec 7, 2024 | dmovies.org | Victor Fraga |Karim Elshenawy |Carol Polakoff

QUICK AND DIRTY: LIVE FROM THE RED SEACairo is a dark and unwelcoming city. The life of security guard Hassan (Essam Omar) is primitive and precarious. He inhabits a tiny flat above a filthy car garage business with his mum and Rambo, a devoted mongrel more or less the size of a Labrador. He toils as a lone facilities security guard, mostly at night. His job precludes most sorts of human in interaction.

Dec 6, 2024 | dmovies.org | Eoghan Lyng |Rodrigo Areias |Karim Elshenawy |Carol Polakoff

Eoghan Lyng interviews the director of The Worst Man in London, about a deviant British-Portuguese painter from the 19th century; they talk about London under candlelight, Barry Lyndon, the pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, cold sensations in film, and much more - as part of ArteKino 2024 Rodrigo Areias is a Portuguese and very prolific film producer, director and writer, with a career spanning more than two decades, and more than 100 films to his credit.

Dec 6, 2024 | dmovies.org | Victor Fraga |Carol Polakoff

QUICK AND DIRTY: LIVE FROM THE RED SEAFourteen-year-old Daye (Badr Mohamed) is doubly marginalised. He is part of the Nubian community, a riverside ethnic group that enjoys little recognition in Egypt. Plus he’s an albino. His mother (Sudanese actress Islam Mubarak) calls him a “ghost”. She notes that he’s barely discernible while wearing their local costume, which happens to be of a colour similar to his skin. He’s invisible, both literally and metaphorically.

May 25, 2024 | dmovies.org | Eoghan Lyng |Karim Elshenawy |Carol Polakoff

A cat runs for their life. Jumping over the dissipating landscape – water is coming to the top – this particular feline finds itself chased by dogs and befriended by birds. Over the course of the movie’s 80 or so minutes, these creatures must band together to ensure their own survival from a mass watery grave. As plots go, it is not necessarily the most exciting of synopsis, and sadly, nor is the action much fun either.