A bleak and sobering account for those who may still have wanted to believe in the enlightening power...
4 OCTOBER, 2024 • By Viola Shafik
Viola Shafik addresses the controversy at the 2024 Berlinale, following the screening of a Palestinian-Israeli "solidarity film."
11 MARCH, 2024 • By Viola Shafik
Viola Shafik has seen several post-thawra Arab features that convey a bleak and dystopian vision of the present.
6 FEBRUARY, 2023 • By Viola Shafik
Film critic and historian Viola Shafik pillories cinematographic voyeurism.
15 DECEMBER, 2022 • By Viola Shafik
Viola Shafik saw the Montpellier CINEMED screening of a new feature in which Haifa Palestinians catch a strange...
15 NOVEMBER, 2022 • By Viola Shafik
Viola Shafik profiles Jihan El-Tahiri and Myriam El Haïk, two Arab artists in the 2022 Berlin Biennale.
15 SEPTEMBER, 2022 • By Viola Shafik
Film historian Viola Shafik interviews Syrian filmmaker Ziad Kalthoum about his peripatetic life in Syria and beyond.
15 SEPTEMBER, 2022 • By Viola Shafik
Filmmaker and historian Viola Shafik muses on German art, colonialism and restitution in Berlin.
15 SEPTEMBER, 2022 • By Viola Shafik
Viola Shafik profiles Berlin-based Palestinian photographer Mohamed Badarne.
15 SEPTEMBER, 2022 • By Viola Shafik