The Gist: Little Jana (Riman Al Rafeea) has converted the scrub and sand of this island space and the blue-green sea that surrounds it into a fantastical world of whimsy and imagined castles. It’s her ...

Film Screening and Q&A session with director Matty Brown and producer Mandy Ward The Sand Castle (2024) weaves the themes of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. U.S. director Matty Brown’s allegorical drama “The Sand Castle,” which sees Lebanese multi-hyphenate Nadine Labaki reunite on ...

Directed by Matty Brown and written by Brown, Hend Fakhroo, and Yassmina Karajah, The Sand Castle (Netflix) draws us into a porous place somewhere between cope and reality, a space that becomes ...

Filmmaker Matty Brown’s dreamy thriller, set on an abandoned island, is big on mood, but fails to find its anchor. It is Jana’s point of view that guides the film, which explains why the details of ...

U.S. director Matty Brown’s allegorical drama “The Sand Castle,” which sees Lebanese multi-hyphenate Nadine Labaki reunite on screen with young “Capernaum” siblings Zain and Reman Al Rafeea – who are ...