Cinema Without Borders

Having spent decades working alongside storytellers, artists, and animators—first through my years of involvement with animation journalism and later within the world of feature animation production—I have come to appreciate children’s stories that understand an important truth: emotional growth does not happen through lectures. It happens thro...

Parallel Tales, directed by Asghar Farhadi, received an extraordinary reception at its first screening at the Cannes Film Festival from those viewers who still come to movie theaters with genuine enthusiasm and a desire to discover cinema. This time, Farhadi presents perhaps the most radical and philoso...

Today, I received the news of Marjane Satrapi’s passing with a heavy heart. She was an artist whom I had the privilege of knowing for nearly nineteen years. During those years, we stayed in touch from time to time, met at a number of cultural and cinematic events, and shared occasional conversations that, while often brief, remained memorable. Marjane was not the kind of pers...

An Interview by Arameh Etemadi | Cinema Without Borders

This interview has been edited for clarity and length.

Haifaa Al Mansour did not arrive at the cinema through the usual doors. Saudi Arabia’s first female feature film director came to it sideways, quietly, making her debut fr...

Cinema Without Borders is proud to announce that the 2026 Honorary Bridging the Borders Award will be presented to Ali Murat Erkorkmaz in recognition of his extraordinary contributions to the world of animation and digital storytelling.

For more than three decades, Ali Murat Erkorkmaz has been a pioneering force in computer animation, consistently pushing the b...