Reporting from Toronto — Being a filmmaker isn’t something that was on A.V. Rockwell’s radar as a kid. But as a student at NYU while studying abroad in Paris, she took a European cinema class that ...

Fox Searchlight is no stranger to the Oscar game, but the speciality distributor entered fresh terrain this season when it acquired a pair of short films out of the Toronto International Film Festival ...

Egypt’s Culture Minister Ines Abdel-Dayem on Tuesday led an honouring ceremony for the makers of 'Reesh' (‘Feathers’), the debut feature film of director Omar El-Zohairy, celebrating its triumph in ...

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In director Omar El Zohairy’s surreal comedic drama, a magic trick gone awry sees a woman's good-for-nothing husband turned into a chicken. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief Grasshopper Film has ...

A superbly made, pitch-black debut that ponders the eternal question: What would you do if your husband was suddenly poultry? Strangeness runs through El Zohairy’s tremendously impressive and complete ...

Written and directed by A.V. Rockwell, the short film is a love letter to black boys, the adverse psychological effects of racism, and a critique of American exceptionalism. Fox Searchlight is no ...