Marrakech International Film Festival to screen 70 films from 32 countries
The festival plays a major role in showcasing and promoting Moroccan films and directors.
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The festival plays a major role in showcasing and promoting Moroccan films and directors.
For the first time, the production of five Jordanian cinematic feature film projects is supported.
French-Moroccan director Sofia Alaoui is among selected filmmakers.
'Everybody Loves Touda' marks Morocco's 20th submission for the Oscars since the country began participating in the category in 1977.
Local content is booming in the Arab world and the opening up of Saudi Arabia’s media landscape has especially seen an unprecedented rise in creative and local productions. At a ...
Moroccan-American filmmaker Rita Baghdadi's project is among the Sundance Institute 2024 Documentary Fund grantees.
The Mubi Award – Debut Feature at Locarno will be decided by a jury made up of Moroccan director-producer Khalil Benkirane, Alma Pöysti and Esmé Sciaroni.
The nine day event showcased filmmakers from both the Arab region and global arena, presenting a diverse array of 53 films hailing from 28 countries.
The programme will centre around this year’s theme, “Our Stories, Our Narratives”, which is also reflected in the artwork of this edition.
A series of workshops and panel discussions with filmmakers and industry experts will be held during Red Sea Documentary Film Days.
The jury will be in charge of awarding prizes for the Un Certain Regard sidebar.
For its 14th edition, the Malmo Arab Film Festival has also selected Beshara to preside over the jury responsible for assessing feature films.
DFI has also announced the 40 projects by emerging filmmakers from more than 20 countries, that will participate in the event.
The DFI’s grants programme is one of longest-running funding initiatives in the MENA region.
In an effort to diversify its offerings, this edition of GFF will feature a special programme dedicated to Palestinian cinema.
The film explores a 1981 massacre in Casablanca through interviews and interactions with the director’s family and former neighbours.
The festival is scheduled to commence on November 30, screening the fantasy film HWJN' directed by Yasir Al-Yasiri as the opening film
The film is produced by Ali n’ Productions in Morocco, Les Films du Nouveau Monde in France, Velvet in Belgium and Snowglobe in Denmark.
The film explores the tension between faith and purpose, eroding myths and challenging class prejudice to expose the ways we are all more connected than we know.
Film Clinic will bring titles from Cannes, Venice, Sundance, and Toronto to the 2023 Red Sea International Film Festival.
The film explores a 1981 massacre in Casablanca through interviews and interactions with the director’s family and former neighbours.
All 26 selected projects will compete for cash prizes offered by the Red Sea Fund, to be awarded by an international jury of producers.
The jury will judge the 14 first and second feature films participating in the official competition, whose titles are still under wraps.
The collection showcases the diversity and richness of the region.
This year’s Atlas Workshop participants will be known as the Class of Martin Scorsese.
The week-long event showcased filmmakers from both the Arab region and global arena, presenting a diverse array of 56 films hailing from 19 countries.
The film explores a 1981 massacre in Casablanca through interviews and interactions with the director’s family and former neighbours.
The juries are appointed for the Venezia 80 Competition, for Orizzonti and the “Luigi De Laurentiis” Venice Award for a Debut Film.
The film explores a 1981 massacre in Casablanca through interviews and interactions with the director’s family and former neighbours.
The 2023 Un Certain Regard selection included 20 feature films.
Winning the L’Oeil d’or honor automatically qualifies both films for Oscar consideration.
The film festival will open with 'The Last Queen', with the screening held at Ciné Lumiere and followed by a Q&A with co-director Damien Onouri.
This year’s edition of the awards focused on Arab-language films that premiered on the festival circuit outside of the Arab world in 2022.
In 2019, Touzani directed her first feature film, 'Adam', selected for the Un Certain Regard at the Festival de Cannes and shortlisted for the Oscars.
A Moroccan film will compete in the La Cinef category for the first time ever.
Five films backed by the Red Sea Film Fund are also a part of the lineup.
The Moroccan film 'The Damned Don’t Cry' by Fyzal Boulifa will open the 14th edition of ALFILM.
The film had its world premiere at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.
Later this year, 'Rebel' and 'Saint Omer' will be released across the Middle East and North Africa.
This film programme is an open-to-all component of the 2023 Night School, a four-week seminar led by Todd Reisz titled 'Make History'.
Voting for nominations will take place from January 12-17, and results will be announced on January 24.
There will be films from Morocco, Lebanon, Iran, and Tunisia at IIRF.
In addition to the Marketing & Distribution Award, MAD Solutions will continue to hold a booth at the Red Sea Souk, the festival’s industry market.
The film is a co-production between Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
The jury prize was shared by director Maryam Touzani for 'The Blue Caftan', which is Morocco's entry for the Oscars, and Portugal's Cristele Alves Meira for 'Alma Viva'.
Eight films will be screened in Red Sea: New Vision, the second edition's new programme strand.
A selection of new films from the world's festival circuit will be shown as part of the programme in Jeddah.
The festival’s Family Gala screening will be 'Puss in Boots: The Last Wish'.
The second edition of the Souk will take place from December 3-6, with an awards ceremony on the final day.
The festival will open with Shekhar Kapur’s romantic comedy ‘What's Love Got to Do With It?’ and conclude with 'Valley Road' by Saudi director Khaled Fahd.
Honorees will receive the festival’s Étoile d’or at the historic Jemaa el-Fna Square, Morocco.
Red Sea Shorts in Competition presents rarely-told stories of Arab people and places in its second edition.
'Life Suits Me Well' recently won three awards at the Casablanca Arab Film Festival.
The movie is a semi-biographical tale about the director's early life and how he fell in love with filmmaking.
Lebanese and Moroccan directors Nadine Labaki and Laïla Marrakchi to serve on the Marrakech International Film Festival jury.
As part of the partnership, five films funded by the Red Sea International Film Festival will also be present at the 79th Venice Film Festival.
Last year, Netflix launched the 'Because She Created' platform to invite Arab women filmmakers to discuss the changing role of women in the Arab film industry.
The event will close with Egyptian film 'Hamel al-Lakab'.
The sixth edition of GFF will be held in the resort town of El Gouna from October 13 to 22, 2022.
The anthology series developed by Egyptian screenwriter Azza Shalaby will explore love at large and relationships up close with stories from Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Morocco and Tunisia.
