Nehad Selaiha watches as six budding directors flounder about in The Tempest

Amal Choucri Catta goes Nordic

This week the 53rd Taormina International Film Festival (16-22 June) celebrates the centenary of Egyptian cinema, screening the most recent seven films on the best-100 list put together by critics Ahmed El-Haradri, Kamal Ramzi and myself, writes Samir Farid. The initiative was taken by the festival's American director and Variety critic Deborah Young, but how -- and why -- did we come to choose these seven films?

Hani Mustafa bewails a particular cinematic collapse

By Mursi Saad El-Din