Most recent articles by Paul Katzenberger
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Interview with Lebanese film director Nadine Labaki
"Children are the first to pay for our wars"
In "Capernaum", Nadine Labaki tells the dismal story of Zain, a boy living on the streets of Beirut. She calls the system behind it "modern slavery". Paul Katzenberger spoke to the Lebanese director
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Sexual Repression in the Arab World
Anguish, Love and Poetry
The film "The Source" tells the story of women living in a North African village who enter into a "love strike" because they are fed up with doing all the work. In conversation with Paul Katzenberger, director Radu Mihăileanu talks about marital rape, parallels with the West and the poetic qualities of the Arabic language. By Paul Katzenberger