NEW YORK TIMES
Reviewed by Matt Zoller Seitz
The third feature by the Tunisian filmmaker and poet Nacer Khemir is a structurally audacious fairy tale that imparts moral lessons and shows how narratives reflect and shape life.
The movie’s framing story follows the elderly Bab’Aziz (Parviz Shahinkhou) and his young granddaughter (Maryam Hamid) as they travel through the […]

New York Post
Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
“Soul Searching Can Be Beautiful”
WELCOME to what the press notes for “Bab’Aziz: The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul” call “the enchanting and ever-shifting sandscapes of Tunisia and Iran.”
There we find a blind old man, Bab’Aziz, and his young granddaughter - “my little angel” - Ishtar.
They have been hiking for days […]

Seattle, WA, 2007 - Typecast Pictures

Produced by John Sinno, Directed by Kevin Hamedani (who wrote the original screenplay with co-writers John Sinno and Ramon Isao), Music by Andrew Rohrmann. The movie is currently in production, shooting in the small historic town of Port Gamble, on the Kitsap Peninsula in Washington State.

“Concise, intelligent docu[mentary]… Dynamically edited… deftly avoids schmaltz in its delineation of grief and its celebration of cross-cultural activism.”
- Ronnie Scheib, Variety
“A riveting documentary, which blazes with a kind of spiritual grace while remaining firmly grounded in a tragic reality…”
- Melissa Levine, Village Voice
“Something else entirely…. Ronit Avni and Julia Bacha never flinch from the […]

“But pointing the camera need not always involve pointing a finger. James Longley’s Iraq in Fragments is the latest entry in the crowded field of documentaries from that war. It is also one of the best, partly because it is more concerned with exploring daily life and individual destinies than with articulating a position. The […]

New York Times
Reviewed by: A.O. Scott
“Hard Life in Gaza, Through 13-Year-Old Eyes”
Like most news reports and television images coming out of the Middle East these days, “Gaza Strip,” an unsparing new documentary by James Longley, offers little reason for optimism. The film, which opens today at the Anthology Film Archives in the East Village, was […]

Gaza Strip, The Village Voice
reviewed by: J. Hoberman
Gaza Strip, a feature-length video by American filmmaker James Longley, is a documentary to make the stones weep — as shameful as it is scary. Longley spent three months during the spring of 2001 in Gaza. Ariel Sharon had just won the Israeli election and the second […]