• Home
  • Faces
  • Movies
  • The Diaries
  • The Briefly
  • Minimalist Fashionista
  • Selfies Interviews
  • About
  • contact
Menu

E. Nina Rothe

Film. Fashion. Life.
  • Home
  • Faces
  • Movies
  • The Diaries
  • The Briefly
  • Minimalist Fashionista
  • Selfies Interviews
  • About
  • contact
×

The Diaries, because sometimes life needs more. 

1465803-1759-34.jpg

Five films, and much more, to watch at this edition of the New Zealand International Film Festival

E. Nina Rothe July 24, 2020

Going forward, if we’re going to learn anything about the pandemics and how to handle them, it’s going to come from New Zealand. And in the film festival world, if we’re going to find a way to move forward, it will also come from this edition of the New Zealand International Film Festival, under the direction of Marten Rabarts.

Read More
In Cinema, Festival, The Diaries Tags New Zealand International Film Festival, NZIFF, Marten Rabarts, film, film festivals, Covid 19, Martin Margiela, Martin Margiela in his own words, Reiner Holzemer, 1982, Oualid Mouaness, Nadine Labaki, Lebanon, The Perfect Candidate, Haifaa Al Mansour, Saudi Arabia, You Will Die at Twenty, Amjad Abu Alala, Sudan, Venice Film Festival, The Girl on the Bridge, Leanne Pooley, New Zealand, suicide, depression, Jazz Thornton
Comment
rome-film-fest-770x460.jpg

Lessons learned from cinema and beyond: a wrap-up of the Rome Film Festival

E. Nina Rothe November 7, 2019

There were films, fashion and public conversations with cinema celebrities. But beyond the red carpets, this year's Festa del cinema di Roma proved a meeting point for understanding the world around us, and sharing thoughts with like-minded people from faraway lands. Here is my personal diary of a wonderful event held in one of the most beautiful cities in the world.

Read More
In Cinema, Festival, Fashion, The Diaries Tags John Travolta, Festa del cinema di Roma, Rome Film Festival, Roma, Greta Garbo, Martin Scorsese, Nicolas Bedos, Ron Howard, Edward Norton, Motherless Brooklyn, Bill Murray, Wes Anderson, Antonio Monda, Bret Easton Ellis, White, 1982, Oualid Mouaness, Qumra, Doha Film Institute, Arab cinema, Netflix, The Irishman, Filmuforia, The Best Is yet to come, Olivier Assayas, Getty images, Judy, Swarovksi, Laura Biagiotti, Ralph Lauren, Maria Tilli, Very Ralph, Viola Davis, Meryl Streep
Fatma Al Remaihi, CEO of the Doha Film Institute, flanked by the managing team of the Ajyal Film Festival

Fatma Al Remaihi, CEO of the Doha Film Institute, flanked by the managing team of the Ajyal Film Festival

Doha's Ajyal Film Festival aims to make educated audiences out of today's youth

E. Nina Rothe November 5, 2019

I believe wholeheartedly that we are what we watch. It’s been my mission to find works of art on the big screen — and on the little one now through Netflix and the likes — that will make life better. I mean, we can all remember that moment, as children, walking out of a theater having watched our favorite character or cartoon on the big screen and feeling an extra bounce in our step. I still experience that these days, whenever I watch something really special. I walk out of the darkened theater into the light of day — as a film writer most of my viewings are done during the day — feeling like anything is possible.

So when the Doha Film Institute kicked off their Ajyal Film Festival in 2014, I went to Qatar to experience the wonder first hand. It was everything I hoped it would be, children and young adults as juries, films that although made for all ages, could really infuse younger minds with a message of peace and hope. You know, an idealist film writer’s dream come true.

Read More
In Cinema, Festival, The Diaries Tags Qatar, Doha, Doha Film Institute, Ajyal Film Festival, youth, Elia Suleiman, This Must Be Heaven, karak chai, Oualid Mouaness, Amjad Abu Alala, Jason Silva, Gitanjali Rao, Chace Crawford, Kris Hitchen, Sundance TV, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Arab cinema, 1982
Comment
Traveling through the desert in Doha

The Qumra Diaries: The life lessons learned and great persons met, thanks to the Doha Film Institute

E. Nina Rothe March 19, 2018

As of my very first steps at this year's Qumra, around the Souq Waqif, spent inside the Date Market fair and eating a bowl of fragrant Moroccan fava bean soup at a nearby restaurant, to my very last moments wandering inside the Hamad International Airport drinking an espresso with a fellow journalist, Doha gave me the very best she has to offer. And that's pretty darn sensational in a country that can count culture, fashion and heritage at the top of its list of priorities.

From the brand new, still partly in construction National Museum of Qatar rising out of the sands, and shaped like a Desert Rose, the crystallized rock that is formed when lighting hits the dunes, to the institution of the Museum of Islamic Art, where most of the Qumra events and masterclasses are held, to the leisurely, harass-free environment of the Souq itself, I felt like I was being coddled in a cocoon of culture and learning, one that would definitely remain with me for months to come. 

Read More
In The Diaries, Cinema, Fashion Tags Qumra, Doha Film Institute, desert, Desert Rose, Tilda Swinton, Gianfranco Rosi, Bennett Miller, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Sandy Powell OBE, Qatar, Doha, Souq Waqif, Richard Pena, Gangs of New York, Shakespeare in Love, Velvet Goldmine, documentaries, Cannes Film Festival, Festival de Cannes, date festival, date market doha, Outlaid Mouaness\, 1982, Lebanon, The Rifle The Jackal The Wolf and the Boy, Dominga Sotomayor, The Village, Late to Die Young, South America, Chile, Santiago, Toronto International Film Festival, Cameron Bailey, Wong Kar-wai, Kenneth Branagh, Hercule Poirot, The Atlantic, Elijah Wolfson, Notturno, hondros, Greg Campbell, Chris Hondros, photojournalism
Comment
Post Archive
  • July 2025
  • June 2025
  • May 2025
  • April 2025
  • March 2025
  • February 2025
  • January 2025
  • December 2024
  • November 2024
  • October 2024
  • September 2024
  • August 2024
  • July 2024
  • June 2024
  • May 2024
  • April 2024
  • March 2024
  • February 2024
  • January 2024
  • December 2023
  • November 2023
  • October 2023
  • September 2023
  • April 2021
  • March 2021
  • February 2021
  • January 2021
  • November 2020
  • September 2020
  • August 2020
  • July 2020
  • June 2020
  • April 2020
  • February 2020
  • December 2019
  • November 2019
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • August 2019
  • July 2019
  • May 2019
  • April 2019
  • March 2019
  • February 2019
  • January 2019
  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • March 2018
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
 

Featured Posts

Featured
modi, three days on the wings of madness Riccardo Scamarcio for E Nina Rothe.jpg
Jul 14, 2025
'Modi, Three Days on the Wing of Madness' by Johnny Depp is the film that should be on everyone's watch list
Jul 14, 2025
Jul 14, 2025
Paolo Sorrentino by Michael Avedon for ENinaRothe copy.jpg
Jul 7, 2025
Paolo Sorrentino's 'La Grazia' (Grace) will open this year's Venice Film Fest
Jul 7, 2025
Jul 7, 2025
SAN DAMIANO St Damian at Raindance for ENinaRothe.jpg
Jul 1, 2025
'Saint Damian' Raindance Review: It's a big, bad world out there
Jul 1, 2025
Jul 1, 2025
H.N. Shantha Murthy and Karla Murthy - courtesy of Greene Fort Productions The Gas Station Attendant for EninaRothe.jpg
Jun 20, 2025
A very personal review: 'The Gas Station Attendant' premieres at Sheffield Doc Fest
Jun 20, 2025
Jun 20, 2025
Elio Disney for ENinaRothe.jpg
Jun 18, 2025
Wholesome fun: my thoughts on Disney's 'Elio'
Jun 18, 2025
Jun 18, 2025