One of the decade’s most prescient hits might be getting a follow-up.
10.12.2020 - 02:23 / variety.com
Kaleem Aftab “About Her,” which world premiered in International Competition this week at the Cairo Film Festival, began life as a short story, which director Islam El Azzazi penned in 2003. In 2017, he started adapting the story for the screen.“The short story faded, somehow,” he says of the changes he made in the process.
One of the decade’s most prescient hits might be getting a follow-up.
Ferne McCann is currently holidaying with best friend and daughter Sunday after they managed to escape the UK for sunny South Africa.The 30 year old, who recently admitted becoming a mum made her feel lonely and low, has been documenting her trip to the city across her social media channels.Taking to her Instagram stories, the former TOWIE star showed off the enviable trip to her 2.6 million followers as she posed in a bikini.
Ferne McCann has been accused of breaking lockdown restrictions to spend Christmas in South Africa.The 30 year old, who recently admitted becoming a mum made her feel lonely and low, has been documenting her trip to the sunny destination across her social media channels.The First Time Mum star posted a series of clips on her Instagram stories enjoying an incredible seafood feast at The Codfather Restaurant Camps Bay in Cape Town.
Queer dating app Grindr has revealed that South Africa is among the countries with the highest percentage of bottoms in the world.
direct to your inboxA travel ban has been introduced for passengers arriving from South Africa to England.It comes after two cases of another new strain of Covid-19 linked to the country were identified in the UK.From 9am on Christmas Eve (Thursday), visitors arriving in England who have been in or transited through South Africa in the previous 10 days will not be permitted entry.Direct flights will be banned, the Department for Transport said.The ban excludes cargo and freight without
Get the stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterAnyone who has travelled to the UK from South Africa in the last two weeks must quarantine immediately, the UK government has announced.Close contacts of travellers from the country must also self-isolate.It follows the discovery of a "highly concerning" new strain of coronavirus in the UK.Two cases of the more infectious strain have been uncovered that are linked to travellers from South
Guy Lodge Film CriticYou can take the girl out of the woods, but you can’t take the woods out of the girl — unless, of course, you take the woods away altogether. Such are the tough lessons learned in “Toorbos,” a satisfying marriage of folky period romance and environmental parable from the misty, mossy depths of South Africa’s Knysna forest region: a national beauty spot much enshrined in local literature and lore, but rarely given this kind of grand-scale screen showcase.
Alma Har’el, who directed both Shia LaBeouf and FKA twigs in the film Honey Boy, is standing by FKA twigs amid her lawsuit against Shia for abuse and sexual battery.
It’s hard to believe that four years after the release of “10 Cloverfield Lane,” we still don’t have a new feature film from director Dan Trachtenberg. Sure, he’s circled a number of projects, including being one of the many filmmakers to come aboard and leave “Uncharted.” He’s even got a new “Predator” film lined up.
Kaleem Aftab The Cairo International Film Festival scrapped the red carpet and press conference for Egyptian filmmaker Islam El Azzazi’s debut feature and competition film “About Her” after a number of sexual misconduct allegations were made against the director and surfaced in the hours before the film’s world premiere this week.The first of the allegations against the director was submitted anonymously to Daftar Hekayat, an Arabic blog that shares stories of sexual violence survivors in their