There are films you watch, and there are films that refuse to let you remain the same person afterward. One…
Year: 2026
The 21st annual South East European Film Festival #SEEfest, co-presented by ELMA foundation for European Languages and Movies in America,…
Jacqueline Rush Rivera: Anne-Marie, from where are you joining us today? Annemarie Jacir: Hi, it’s good to be with you.…
In moments when history tilts toward violence, it searches—almost desperately—for voices strong enough to resist its momentum. Few figures in…
“Are there sharks in Germany?” asks a character in The Secret Agent, staring at the dreadful scars on an elderly…
In this piece, I want to approach the U.S./Israeli assault—and that of their allies—on Iran through a Lacanian lens. In…
Annemarie Jacir’s epic drama, Palestine 36, contextualizes the horrific wars of today not as abstract anomalies that the nightly news…
The film “The Great Dictator”, directed by Charlie Chaplin, is one of the most brilliant and courageous works in the…
The 1976 film Who Can Kill a Child? (¿Quién puede matar a un niño?), directed by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador—the Spanish…
An exclusive, engaging, and insight-rich conversation with Shahab Hosseini My first meeting with Shahab Hosseini was in Bahman, four years…