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Question 1 of 6What is the commentary's central argument? Question 2 of 6What does the commentator say the middle ground needs? Question 3 of 6What does applause "for ten minutes" in European halls suggest? Question 4 of 6What is implied by festival films looking like they were written after reading funding conditions? Question 5 of 6What does "without borrowing someone else's eye" mean? Question 6 of 6What does the closing description of the two audiences convey? Vocabularyتَحْصُدُ الْجَوَائِزwins prizes
الْمِهْرَجَانَاتfestivals
صَالَات السِّينِمَاcinema halls
قَاتِمَةbleak, dark
الْقَمْعrepression
الْمَقْهُورَاتoppressed (fem. pl.)
تُخَدِّرُnumbs, drugs
التَّهْرِيجslapstick, clowning
الْمُعْلِنadvertiser
صُنْدُوق تَمْوِيلfunding body
مُسْتَعَارَةborrowed
حَائِرًاtorn, perplexed