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Window of Emporio Armani in Cannes

The Cannes Diaries 2018: Everyone has their own story

E. Nina Rothe May 11, 2018

This year the festival holds a lot of promise. Arab cinema is at its center with an unprecedented two films in Competition, Nadine Labaki's 'Capharnaüm' and Abu Bakr Shawky's 'Yomeddine', while there are of course quite a few other titles sprinkled among the sidebars, including Mohamed Ben Attia's 'Weldi'. A newly formed Saudi Film Council is occupying a harbor-side pavilion and offering wonderful panels (including one on Sunday the 13th at 11 moderated by yours truly and featuring Annemarie Jacir, Haifaa Al-Mansour, Lamia Chraibi and TIFF's own Cameron Bailey) as well as much welcomed Arabic coffee and dates. When I dropped by on a late afternoon I really cherished that cardamom and saffron infused shot of Arabia and the hospitality brought me back to my days in the Gulf.

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In The Diaries, Festival, Cinema Tags Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Capharnaum, Nadine Labaki, Elia Suleiman, Cannes Film Festival, Festival de Cannes, Hany Abu Assad, Annemarie Jacir, Yomeddine, Sheherazade, Saudi Arabian pavilion, DPA gift lounge, Abu Bakr Shawky, Mohamed Ben Attia, Weldi, Lamia Chraibi, Cameron Bailey, Critics Week
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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. 

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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
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Gianfranco Rosi gave a Masterclass at this year's Qumra

Gianfranco Rosi gave a Masterclass at this year's Qumra

The Qumra Diaries: Wisdom from the Masters with Tilda Swinton and Gianfranco Rosi

E. Nina Rothe March 12, 2018

The greatness of Qumra, the annual industry event held by the Doha Film Institute to help connect, inspire and encourage filmmakers, lies in its diversity of activities. From the daily working breakfasts with some of the most well-respected festival directors and programmers, sales agents and producers to the Masterclasses with cinema greats, from its Qumra Talks to the networking sessions held each afternoon just around the corner from my hotel, there is a buzz of activity at any given moment and even a non-filmmaker like me can feel the excitement of great cinema in the making. 

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In Cinema, The Diaries Tags Qumra, Doha Film Institute, Doha, Okja, Tilda Swinton, Cameron Bailey, TIFF, Gianfranco Rosi, acting, filmmaking, industry, Richard Pena, masterclasses, documentaries, Oscar-nominated, Fire at Sea, Fuocoammare, art, Oscars, Academy Awards, Charles Bowden, Venice Film Festival, Sacro GRA, Boatman, Benares, India, California, Below Sea Level, El Sicario room 164
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Tilda Swinton and Cameron Bailey

Tilda Swinton and Cameron Bailey

The Qumra Diaries: Tilda Swinton, the Museum of Islamic Art and to Doha, with love

E. Nina Rothe March 10, 2018

From the moment I boarded the Qatar Airways plane in Fiumicino, I realized I was being transported somewhere special. I also knew my journey, as both a film writer and a human being, would be a life changing one.

To begin with, the airline offers Karak chai -- a milky tea infused with cardamom or saffron to taste -- and a choice of films that included 'Murder on the Orient Express', the new version by Kenneth Branagh. Not what I would have gone to the movies to watch it but at 30 thousand feet, flying over lands and bodies of water I'll probably never set foot on or swim through, cup of fragrant tea in hand one's taste adjusts. And I even found myself crying through some of Branagh's Hercule Poirot moments. 

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In Cinema, The Diaries Tags Qumra, Doha Film Institute, Doha, Qatar, Qatar Airways, Museum of Islamic Art, Souq Waqif, cinema, Arab Cinema, Murder on the Orient Express, Kenneth Branagh, karak chai, Hercule Poirot, tea, date festival, I. M. Pei, Qatari Film Fund, TIFF, Toronto International Film Festival, Cameron Bailey, Elia Suleiman, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Gianfranco Rosi, Fatma Al Remaihi, Oscar's best dressed list, Jio MAMI, Mumbai Film Festival, Smriti Kiran, masterclasses
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