Hasan Oswald’s Mediha opens with its subject — a 15-year-old Yazidi girl who recently escaped from Isis slavery — chasing beauty. She tries to get the attention of a painted lady butterfly perched on a dandelion stalk by making kissing noises with her mouth. When the insect flies away, the dutiful teenager follows it to another flower.
In the next scene, Mediha introduces us to her shadow and the refugee camp, tucked in the Kurdish region of Northern Iraq, that she calls home. She’s lived here for two years with her younger brothers Ghazwan and Adnan, whom we meet as they’re playing with chicks. When Mediha finally turns the camera to herself, her rounded, youthful face flashes in front of the screen before disappearing behind the camera. She announces that she needs to be alone, to go somewhere no one can hear her.
Where does Mediha go in these moments?...
In the next scene, Mediha introduces us to her shadow and the refugee camp, tucked in the Kurdish region of Northern Iraq, that she calls home. She’s lived here for two years with her younger brothers Ghazwan and Adnan, whom we meet as they’re playing with chicks. When Mediha finally turns the camera to herself, her rounded, youthful face flashes in front of the screen before disappearing behind the camera. She announces that she needs to be alone, to go somewhere no one can hear her.
Where does Mediha go in these moments?...
- 12/20/2023
- by Lovia Gyarkye
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
When a man dies, intones the leader of a women’s wake, the light goes from the home. Nawal (Mouna Hawa), who has woken to find her increasingly tired husband Adnan has died in the night, bows her head with her accustomed piety as her very existence is erased by this prolonged eulogy to the man who is gone.
She still is here caring for their daughter, working long hours in a wealthy house as a nurse to an elderly woman with advanced dementia and maintaining a welcoming home in the flat they bought and were paying off together, using her inheritance as a deposit. That life isn’t mentioned, however. Nawal’s primary duty is to “safeguard the reputation” of her husband by staying inside for four months and 10 days. And if that is impossible, not to be outside the house after dark. “The devils roam the world after sunset,...
She still is here caring for their daughter, working long hours in a wealthy house as a nurse to an elderly woman with advanced dementia and maintaining a welcoming home in the flat they bought and were paying off together, using her inheritance as a deposit. That life isn’t mentioned, however. Nawal’s primary duty is to “safeguard the reputation” of her husband by staying inside for four months and 10 days. And if that is impossible, not to be outside the house after dark. “The devils roam the world after sunset,...
- 12/15/2023
- by Stephanie Bunbury
- Deadline Film + TV
Hossein Khosrow Vaziri, the Iran-born wrestler known as the Iron Sheik, who channeled America’s hatred of his homeland to build a career as one of the most despised ring villains of his era, died Wednesday. He was 81.
“Today, we gather with heavy hearts to bid farewell to a true legend, a force of nature and an iconic figure who left an incredible mark on the world of professional wrestling,” read a statement posted to the Iron Sheik’s Twitter account announcing his death. The WWE also paid tribute on Twitter; a cause of death was not disclosed.
A former bodyguard for the Shah of Iran, Vaziri came to the U.S. in the late 1960s. For his wrestling persona, he shaved his head, grew a mustache, sported a ghutra headdress and curled-toe boots, and swung a pair of 75-pound Persian meels above his head as a demonstration of his strength.
“Today, we gather with heavy hearts to bid farewell to a true legend, a force of nature and an iconic figure who left an incredible mark on the world of professional wrestling,” read a statement posted to the Iron Sheik’s Twitter account announcing his death. The WWE also paid tribute on Twitter; a cause of death was not disclosed.
A former bodyguard for the Shah of Iran, Vaziri came to the U.S. in the late 1960s. For his wrestling persona, he shaved his head, grew a mustache, sported a ghutra headdress and curled-toe boots, and swung a pair of 75-pound Persian meels above his head as a demonstration of his strength.
- 6/7/2023
- by Rhett Bartlett
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
TollywoodThe singer had stirred a similar controversy recently when he accused Jagan of a “separate attitude”, after the Andhra Cm tweeted that the “Telugu flag is flying high” while appreciating the Rrr team for its Golden Globe win.FilePhoto/PTISinger Adnan Sami has invited the wrath of Telugu netizens yet again, this time by calling Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy a “regional minded frog in a pond” on Twitter. The singer’s words were in response to a tweet put out by Jagan on Monday, March 13, conveying his wishes to the team of Telugu film Rrr for winning the Academy Award in the best original song category. Cm Jagan had tweeted that he was filled with pride that a Telugu song, which “so beautifully celebrates our folk heritage”, was given its due recognition internationally. “The Telugu flag is flying higher!” he added. “Congratulations to SS Rajamouli, Jr Ntr,...
- 3/14/2023
- by RajeswariP
- The News Minute
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