Writer-director Sofia Alaoui follows up her Sundance-winning short with this genre-bending tale of an unidentified meteorological phenomenon that upends the life of a pregnant woman. By Jordan Mintzer ...

Born to a French mother, a Moroccan father and raised for some years in China, filmmaker Sofia Alaoui grants that her upbringing had a more international expanse than most. The same could be said for ...

A careful camera takes note of the placid symmetries of a gated house in a desert location. A fountain flows in the courtyard. A chandelier hangs in the hallway. Rococo chairs share plush rooms with ...

Animalia, a French-Moroccan-Qatari co-production that premiered at last month’s Sundance Film Festival, opens with an intriguing set-up. A deeply pious pregnant woman of modest origins, Itto (Oumaïma ...

The shadow of 7 October looms large over Middle Eastern film, putting in doubt the place of the region’s cinema within a global order, which treats our politics with increased scrutiny. Every year, ...

Rachael Severino is a writer from New York. She was awarded her Bachelor's in Classical Archaeology and Literature from Sarah Lawrence College. She is currently completing her MFA at Columbia ...