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In his latest oeuvre, Woody Allen perfectly channels the spirit of Ernest Hemingway by having the actor portraying the American novelist utter this year’s most unforgettable cinematic line: “No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.”

While Allen’s Hemingway speaks in reference to writing the perfect novel, the idea of honesty, courage and grace under fire applies so easily to all great works of art. It is definitely what most appeals to me personally in films from the Middle East and North Africa, where stories still focus on the daily struggles of humans trying to connect more simply and deeply to one another, while also finding the poetry within their tumultuous life journey here on earth.

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