© 2024 Rawy Films

The Speech That Shook Hollywood: Vanessa Redgrave and the 1978 Oscar Scandal

The reality is, there exists, within US-American public discourse, a relatively narrow and informal but strongly enforced boundary defining what counts as legitimate speech. Once you cross it, you will stop being treated as someone pointing out a problem and will instead be treated as the root of the problem itself.

Against All Odds and Algorithms: a love letter to independent cinema

This is my love letter to cinema—and more specifically, independent cinema. I love it because it stubbornly refuses to treat a film like a product on a shelf or a line on a financial spreadsheet. It treats film as an unfiltered human pulse. It's the raw, honest, and beautifully messy truth of our lives up on the screen, and as long as I am curating, programming, and breathing, I never want to stop looking for it.

Exile Cinema: Recovering the Homeland or Reinventing It?


Homeland, when seen from within, differs radically from the homeland reconstructed from the outside and even more so when it is lost, destroyed, or deferred in memory.

Exile Cinema: Recovering the Homeland or Reinventing It?

Homeland, when seen from within, differs radically from the homeland reconstructed from the outside and even more so when it is lost, destroyed, or deferred in memory.

The Speech That Shook Hollywood: Vanessa Redgrave and the 1978 Oscar Scandal

The reality is, there exists, within US-American public discourse, a relatively narrow and informal but strongly enforced boundary defining what counts as legitimate speech. Once you cross it, you will stop being treated as someone pointing out a problem and will instead be treated as the root of the problem itself.

Against All Odds and Algorithms: a love letter to independent cinema

This is my love letter to cinema—and more specifically, independent cinema. I love it because it stubbornly refuses to treat a film like a product on a shelf or a line on a financial spreadsheet. It treats film as an unfiltered human pulse. It's the raw, honest, and beautifully messy truth of our lives up on the screen, and as long as I am curating, programming, and breathing, I never want to stop looking for it.

Exile Cinema: Recovering the Homeland or Reinventing It?


Homeland, when seen from within, differs radically from the homeland reconstructed from the outside and even more so when it is lost, destroyed, or deferred in memory.

Exile Cinema: Recovering the Homeland or Reinventing It?

Homeland, when seen from within, differs radically from the homeland reconstructed from the outside and even more so when it is lost, destroyed, or deferred in memory.

Rawy is dedicated to promoting independent films from the South West Asia and North Africa (SWANA) region. We organize Pop-up Cinema events worldwide, fostering cultural exchange and stimulating dialogue around films.


Rawy is dedicated to promoting independent films from the South West Asia and North Africa (SWANA) region. We organize Pop-up Cinema events worldwide, fostering cultural exchange and stimulating dialogue around films.


ALFILM Arab Film Festival | Ep. 4 Rawy Talks with Suzannah Mirghani & Mihad Murtada

In the episode of Rawy Talks, we sit down with Suzannah Mirghani and Mihad Murtada

to discuss their latest film, Cotton Queen, which explores generational divides among women in Sudan, following a young girl as she tenderly and courageously carves out a space for herself and her voice within her community. 

ALFILM Arab Film Festival | Ep. 4 Rawy Talks with Suzannah Mirghani & Mihad Murtada

In the episode of Rawy Talks, we sit down with Suzannah Mirghani and Mihad Murtada

to discuss their latest film, Cotton Queen, which explores generational divides among women in Sudan, following a young girl as she tenderly and courageously carves out a space for herself and her voice within her community. 

© 2024 Rawy Films

© 2024 Rawy Films

Against All Odds and Algorithms: a love letter to independent cinema

This is my love letter to cinema—and more specifically, independent cinema. I love it because it stubbornly refuses to treat a film like a product on a shelf or a line on a financial spreadsheet. It treats film as an unfiltered human pulse. It's the raw, honest, and beautifully messy truth of our lives up on the screen, and as long as I am curating, programming, and breathing, I never want to stop looking for it.

The Speech That Shook Hollywood: Vanessa Redgrave and the 1978 Oscar Scandal

The reality is, there exists, within US-American public discourse, a relatively narrow and informal but strongly enforced boundary defining what counts as legitimate speech.

Against All Odds and Algorithms:

a love letter to independent cinema

This is my love letter to cinema—and more specifically, independent cinema. I love it because it stubbornly refuses to treat a film like a product on a shelf or a line on a financial spreadsheet. It treats film as an unfiltered human pulse.