A show featuring contemporary artwork that engages with the oil industry’s vast, messy archive
In this show with his artist father, Basim Magdy looks at the world as if it is already history.
How does class factor into the cinema industry, and how does it reflect in the resulting films?
Maha ElNabawi on the sounds that came out of 2018, puncturing a year of boredom and silence
The show, which runs until Jan. 19, takes the artist’s creative process as its organizing principle
In our latest Avant-titre episode, we look at Egyptian director Khairy Beshara's fan favorite "Ice Cream in Gleam" (1992). In this video, Ahmed Abo El Fadl attempts to analyze the…
On the changing television landscape in Egypt and the state’s critical role in the ongoing shift
Ahmed Refaat explores the reasons behind the continued significance of Atteyat al-Abnoudy’s work
Tamer El Said on censorship, the Cairo International Film Festival and his film’s leak
Can writer and producer Mohamed Hefzy evade political confrontations and compromises?
Ismail Fayed reviews Ahmed Fawzi Saleh’s debut feature film, Poisonous Roses
Sara Elkamel reviews the first exhibition held at the Contemporary Image Collective’s new space
Imane Ibrahim’s show at Townhouse
An examination of “Gunshot,” the controversial film which premiered at the Gouna Film Festival
The Shefai family, who light weddings, are trying to preserve the social glow in Daqahalia.
This year there are over 70 films, spanning four venues across Cairo and more in ten other cities.
The central courtyard at the Technical University of Berlin’s Gouna campus — El Gouna Film Festival’s (GFF) operational base — was almost never empty. Festival attendees would gather there every…
The fourth edition of Found in Translation, a collaboration between Mada Masr and the Cairo Jazz Club
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