The image of the lifeless body of two-year-old Kurdish-Syrian boy Alan Kurdi lying washed up on a Turkish beach shocked the world in September 2015. His death, alongside that of his mother and brother ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Matty Brown with young stars of The Sand Castle Zain Al Rafeea (L), M Riman Al Rafeea (R) Getty Images The image of the lifeless body of two-year-old Kurdish-Syrian boy Alan Kurdi lying washed up on a ...