Writer-director Sofia Alaoui follows up her Sundance-winning short with this genre-bending tale of an unidentified meteorological phenomenon that upends the life of a pregnant woman. By Jordan Mintzer ...

Oumaima Barid stars in the movie, which premiered at Sundance, where it won a special jury prize for creative vision. By Georg Szalai Global Business Editor The deal was negotiated by Isra Al Kassi of ...

A careful camera takes note of the placid symmetries of a gated house in a desert location. A fountain flows in the courtyard. A chandelier hangs in the hallway. Rococo chairs share plush rooms with ...

EXCLUSIVE: Casablanca-born French-Moroccan filmmaker Sofia Alaoui is one of the Arab world’s hottest rising talents. The director won Sundance’s Grand Jury Prize for her supernatural short So What If ...

Born to a French mother, a Moroccan father and raised for some years in China, filmmaker Sofia Alaoui grants that her upbringing had a more international expanse than most. The same could be said for ...

"Don't let fear stop you." Dark Star Pictures has revealed the official US trailer for an impressive indie sci-fi mystery thriller titled Animalia, a French-Moroccan production about a pregnant woman ...

The deputy culture editor, Sian Cain, speaks to author Graeme Base about how he wrote his bestselling and beloved books Animalia and The Eleventh Hour, and why he set out to challenge curious kids ...