As a simple tale of attempting to achieve the impossible dream, the beautifully shot Bekas – which means ‘parentless’ – works on various levels and presents an intriguing childlike perspective of...
Nikolaj Arcel's A ROYAL AFFAIR is nominated for a Golden Globe Award® in the category Best Foreign Language Film. A ROYAL AFFAIR, which took home two Silver Bears at the Berlinale this year...
Some 10 months after Nikolaj Arcel's A ROYAL AFFAIR world premiered in Berlin, taking home two Silver Bears (Best Actor, Best Script), the film, which is Denmark’s official entry for the Academy...
DIRECTOR KARZAN KADER’S debut film, the Kurdish-language Bekas, is drawn from his all-too-real experiences as a child trying to flee war-torn Iraq in the early 1990s.
Kader and his...
The films from Haifaa Al Mansour and Karzan Kader will be featured in gala screenings.
LONDON – Ground-breaking Saudi filmmaker Haifaa Al Mansour and debut feature filmmaker Karzan...
If there were an award for most endearing film at this 23rd edition of the Stockholm Film Festival, Bekas [trailer, film focus] might very well be the audience's favourite. This feature co-...