Ali El-Sadany 5/2/26 Ali El-Sadany 5/2/26

Russell Goldman on the Paranoia and Personal Identity of 'Sender'

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Ali El-Sadany 5/2/26 Ali El-Sadany 5/2/26

Answering to the Future: Poh Si Teng on ‘American Doctor’ and the Limits of Access

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Ali El-Sadany 4/24/26 Ali El-Sadany 4/24/26

Inside Watermelon Pictures: Badie Ali on Decolonizing the Film Industry

An interview with Badie Ali, co-founder of Watermelon Pictures

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Ali El-Sadany 4/21/26 Ali El-Sadany 4/21/26

Markian Tarasiuk’s Guerrilla Guide to Bypassing Film Gatekeepers

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George Iskander 4/16/26 George Iskander 4/16/26

Building Community Beyond the Screen: A Conversation With Film Programmers

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Ali El-Sadany 4/3/26 Ali El-Sadany 4/3/26

Maya Annik Bedward on Advocacy, the Black Screen Office, and ‘Black Zombie’

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Ali El-Sadany 4/3/26 Ali El-Sadany 4/3/26

Lauren Noll on ‘Same Same But Different’ and the Power of Shared Interiority

Interview with Lauren Noll, Director of ‘Same Same But Different’

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Katie Mae Ryan 3/28/26 Katie Mae Ryan 3/28/26

Suzannah Herbert, Director of ‘Natchez,’ on Cinematic and Historical Disillusion

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Ali El-Sadany 3/27/26 Ali El-Sadany 3/27/26

Charlie Tyrell on Fatherhood, AI, and Agency

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Ali El-Sadany 3/13/26 Ali El-Sadany 3/13/26

Return to Y2K: An Interview with Ayden Mayeri, Director of Summer 2000: The X-Cetra Story

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Ali El-Sadany 3/10/26 Ali El-Sadany 3/10/26

Sara Robin on Reclaiming Your Attention in the Algorithmic Age

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Ali El-Sadany 2/21/26 Ali El-Sadany 2/21/26

The Weight of the Critic: A Conversation with David Ehrlich

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Ali El-Sadany 2/17/26 Ali El-Sadany 2/17/26

Against the Algorithm: Video Store.Age and the Return of Curated Cinema

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Ali El-Sadany 2/6/26 Ali El-Sadany 2/6/26

Twelve Years in the Tenderloin: Rob Nilsson on Cinema as a Conscientious Objection

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Interview with Alireza Khatami, Director of ‘The Things We Kill’

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Ali El-Sadany 1/23/26 Ali El-Sadany 1/23/26

Interview with Annapurna Sriram, Director of ‘Fucktoys’

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Ali El-Sadany 12/15/25 Ali El-Sadany 12/15/25

Interview with Giovanna Ferrari, Director of Éiru

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Ali El-Sadany 12/15/25 Ali El-Sadany 12/15/25

Interview with Simon Panay, Director of ‘The Boy with White Skin’

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Ali El-Sadany 12/14/25 Ali El-Sadany 12/14/25

Interview with Franz Böhm, Director of ‘Rock Paper Scissors’

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Eman Ibrahim 11/14/25 Eman Ibrahim 11/14/25

Interview with Suzannah Mirghani, Director of ‘Cotton Queen’

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