Alexandria Mediterranean Film Festival to honour Egyptian actor Lotfy Labib
Labib's career in the entertainment industry spans over four decades, with more than 200 film and television credits to his name.
Labib's career in the entertainment industry spans over four decades, with more than 200 film and television credits to his name.
The film is a joint production between Palestine, Italy and France.
The film’s international sales are handled by MAD World, while its distribution and sales in the Arab-speaking world are handled by MAD Distribution.
The film, developed through the Red Sea Lodge programme in 2021 and also supported by the Red Sea Fund, will have its world premiere in the Orizzonti Extra section.
This open call targets all emerging filmmakers and directors, whether working individually or in groups.
The new Riyadh office and planned production hub in Abu Dhabi will be led by James Pearce.
All selected projects will compete for the Red Sea Souk cash awards provided by the Red Sea Fund and awarded by the Project Market juries.
The deadline for participants to submit their work for the competition is August 28, 2024.
Ahead of its premiere in Cannes 2024, Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof was sentenced to eight years in prison by Iranian authorities.
This initiative provides UAE nationals and residents the chance to be selected for a 12-week programme, featuring masterclass training and concept refinement led by industry experts.
Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof's 'The Seed of the Sacred Fig' is also a part of the Centrepiece programme.
Applications for these workshops are open until August 31, 2024.
The festival will showcase films from a diverse range of countries, including Jordan, Egypt, Bahrain, France, Brazil, Japan, Sudan, Palestine, Oman and India, among others.
'Norah', the first Saudi feature film shot entirely in AlUla with an all-Saudi cast and over 40% Saudi crew, is among the films selected to be screened at the festival.
All information submitted must be in English, and there is no fee for applying to CineMart.
The 81st Venice International Film Festival will be held from August 28 to September 7, 2024.
Accreditation for the fourth edition of the Red Sea International Film Festival is open until September 22, 2024.
Recently, Al-Turki stepped down as CEO of Red Sea Film Foundation to focus on personal projects and further his career as an independent film producer and businessman.
The film is written and and directed by Chakib Taleb-Bendiab.
The programme is open to Arab filmmakers, regardless of their country of residency.
The deadline for submissions is August 21, 2024.
The Septimius Awards ceremony will take place on August 19-20, 2024, at Tuschinski in Amsterdam.
The Protocol aims to establish a framework, in line with festival rules, to encourage mutual visits, organise cinema symposia and field trips, and select films for exhibitions, competitions and festivals...
The film is available on the Arabic streaming platform Shahid.
In 2019, Hamed served as the head of the Short Film Competition jury at the El Gouna Film Festival.
Beginning next year, the BAFTA Film Awards will include an honor for best children’s and family film, marking the ceremony’s first new category in five years.
This extension is in response to the high demand for registration through the festival's official website.
Slim’s third feature fiction, presented at the 2023 Atlas Workshops at Marrakech Film Festival, focuses on a remote town in Tunisia where missing people return after many years.
Moroccan-American filmmaker Rita Baghdadi's project is among the Sundance Institute 2024 Documentary Fund grantees.
The winners of this competition will be announced on September 19, 2024.
'My Treat' will be directed by Karim Abouzeid, with a screenplay by Saudi-Palestinian writer Noha Saadi, based on an original story by Alamiya Filmed Entertainment chief Wesam Kattan.
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.
Films participating in the event will vie for the Yusr Awards.
Co-written and directed by first-time feature filmmaker Amjad Al Rasheed, the film is a co-production between Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
An international co-production of Australia, the United States and the United Arab Emirates, 'Late Night with the Devil' has already grossed $14m at the international box office.
The international and Orizzonti jury also features Arab filmmakers, including Syrian director Soudade Kaadan and Iranian writer, director, and producer Ali Asgari.
The film is produced by Amjad Abu Alala’s Station Films and co-produced by Ali Alarabi, CEO and founder of Ambient Light.
This partnership is part of a long-term plan where SBA will take up residency in the forthcoming end-state hub on THE LINE.
Shalaby is the first Egyptian and Arab to receive an Emmy Award nomination.
The film, developed through the Red Sea Lodge programme in 2021 and also supported by the Red Sea Fund, will have its world premiere in the Orizzonti Extra section.
Earlier this year, Babatope stepped down as managing director of FilmOne Entertainment, a subsidiary of FilmHouse Group, which he co-founded with Kene Okwusa in 2012.
The seven awards in the Israeli Feature Film Competition included the Best Israeli Feature prize, which was won by Yousef Abo Madegem’s 'Eid'.
Applications are open until August 10 for Saudi women aged 21 and above.
The applications for the Screenlife Accelerator Programme are open until August 10, 2024.
The line-up has been announced for the 81st edition of the Venice Film Festival, taking place from August 28 to September 7, 2024.
This year’s edition will throw a greater spotlight on Arab Cinema and introduce additional awards, including the Horizons of Arab Cinema Awards.
The festival is scheduled to take place from August 28 to September 7, 2024.
Four projects incubated under the programme will be developed into feature films.
The films will compete for the Kutxabank-New Directors Award with the opportunity to win $54413.50.
The winning teams will be selected by a jury that includes Egyptian actor Ahmed Malek, Saudi star Sara Taibah and French director and screenwriter Claude Mourieras.
The film is a co-production between Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
The work-in-progress copies of the seven selected films will play to producers, buyers, distributors, post-production companies and festival programmers.
Egyptian filmmaker and journalist Ibrahim Nash’at takes viewers behind the scenes of the Taliban’s first year back in power.
Written and directed by Firas Khoury, 'Alam' follows the story of a Palestinian teenager named Tamer.
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 AIFF's partners have granted awards, both in-kind and in cash, totaling $200,000 to the winners.
Co-written and directed by first-time feature filmmaker Amjad Al Rasheed, the film is a co-production between Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
The awards are completely free-to-enter and open to filmmakers from around the world.
The film is a joint production between Palestine, Italy and France.
The film will be released in theaters on July 11 across the GCC.