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Sherif M. Awad

film critic-curator

since 1990

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Egyptian drama,Turkish style

by Sherif Awad The rise of Turkish TV production in the last two decades followed the footsteps of Turkish cinema that is being acclaimed in world festivals.  The popularity of Turkish content...

Jehane Noujaim: The Square

by Sherif Awad Documentary filmmaker Jehane Noujaim has made a name for herself in the last decade through a handful of powerful social and political documentaries with varied subjects and locations...

Art Attack: Eddie The Sleepwalking Cannibal

by Sherif Awad Can an artist kill for inspiration? Can art inspire vicious crimes? These are the questions raised by many films I have seen during Tribeca Festival last month. Eddie the Sleepwalking...

Hectic Knife

by Sherif Awad Watching this new horror/comedy brought back memories of the mid 1980s when I first rented from a Cairo video club a VHS copy of The Toxic Avenger. During that period, I was only...

Call Me Thief

by Sherif Awad This long film was the official nomination of South Africa for the ‘Best Foreign Language Film’ of the 89th Academy Awards (The Oscars) of 2017. Noem My Skollie or Call Me...

THE POET ON THE MOON

by Sherif Awad A new short film from Argentina, inspired by the cinema of fantasy and science fiction of the 1950s. It tells the story of a child called Serguei who, through his effort and courage...
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