TagNaji Abu Nowar

Distinctive 2014 debuts

Five films that their innovative ways of narrative and their original realistic stories made them the most distinctive debut feature films of 2014.

Drama, Thriller, Venice 2014

Theeb (ذيب) – Venice 71 Orizzonti

A visually impressive and highly emotional coming-of-age film by Naji Abu Nowar, set in the Jordanian desert just before the Arab Revolt. Orizzonti Award for Best Director at the 71st Venice Film Festival.

REVIEWS

La Maldad (Evilness) – Berlinale 65 Forum

Mexico's most troubled political period is blended with traces of poetry and Carlos Reygadas' essence, when betrayal surpasses love in Joshua Gil's debut feature film.

Love, Theft and Other Entanglements – Berlinale 65 Panorama

A simple story of a simple anti-hero who tries to fix his almost destined troubled life in Palestine. Debut feature film by Muayad Alayan.

Krš (Karst) – Sarajevo 21 Documentary

An experimental journey by Vladimir Todorović that explores the inner real identities which emerge in a rough and mountainous Montenegrin landscape.

Perfect Sense (2011)

A dysfunctional dramatic romance which takes place in an apocalyptic dystopic period directed by David Mackenzie.

Monanieba (Repentance, 1984)

Tengiz Abuladze by presenting a grotesque realism with a touch of subcutaneous self-sarcasm managed to bury all the fears that had survived for so many years in the USSR.

TagNaji Abu Nowar

Distinctive 2014 debuts

Theeb (ذيب) – Venice 71 Orizzonti

La Maldad (Evilness) – Berlinale 65 Forum

Love, Theft and Other Entanglements – Berlinale 65 Panorama

Krš (Karst) – Sarajevo 21 Documentary

Perfect Sense (2011)

Monanieba (Repentance, 1984)

Bertolucci – Dreams from the Other Side

Dziga Vertov’s Eye

Grandrieux on his films

John Cassavetes: I am here and I don’t know why

Jodorowsky’s Endless Dream