Cairo Horizons of Arab Cinema Winner ‘Dead Dog’ Director Sarah Francis on Silence, Migration and Small Stories in Arab Cinema

Lebanese director Sarah Francis brought her quietly devastating marital drama “Dead Dog” to the Cairo Film Festival’s Horizons of Arab Cinema Competition, where the film won the Saad Eldin Wahba Award for best Arabic film. When we met with Francis ahead of the closing ceremony, the impact of the film, anchored by intimate performances from […]