Faten Yaacoub's Articles

Recently released in Egyptian cinemas on 7 January 2026, My Father’s Scent (Colonia) portrays grief not through tears alone, but through what lingers in the air. The film explores how absence, inheritance, and unfinished dialogue shape the families we inherit—and the ones we try to escape.

In The Last Symphony, Achraf El Achmawi unravels the making—and unmaking—of Sammy Erfan, a troubled prodigy whose search for control turns a Nietzschean “superman” into something far more broken.