Ahmed Shawky’s Al-Garima and Omar El Zohairy’s Zafir both struggle with a similar set of questions, though in different ways.
Words become performative utterances that mold the space and, in the way they are spoken, their tone and pitch, contribute to the internal drive of Mark Lotfy’s films.
Religious themes lend themselves nicely to the medium, and Nork Zakarian builds on this idea of ever-present video.
On Friday, Zawya's second night of “Shorts Revisited” was at full capacity. A crowd waited eagerly at the cinema's entrance. But this crowd was full of faces new to the…
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