Saudi Film Festival opens submissions for ninth edition
Scripts and films nominated for this year's festival will compete for 26 awards in four categories.
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Scripts and films nominated for this year's festival will compete for 26 awards in four categories.
MAD Solutions is managing the film's distribution across the Arab world.
A total of $830,000 in cash prizes and $126,000 in-kind prizes were awarded to Saudi, Arab and African projects in the development and work-in-progress stages.
The fourth edition of the Cairo Shorts Film Festival will be held from December 17 to 22.
The film is a co-production between Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
Suzannah Mirghani’s 'Cotton Queen' and Mahdi El-Tayeb’s 'Lamp in the Dark' each took home the biggest prize from MAD Solutions which offers a minimum of $50,000 for distribution in the Arab world.
Set to hold its Arab world premiere at the festival’s International Competition, 'Alam' follows the story of a Palestinian teenager named Tamer.
The winner will be announced during the Cairo International Film Festival.
Written and directed by Bassel Ghandour, the film stars Emad Azmi, Baraka Rahmani, Munther Rayahneh, Maisa Abd Elhadi, Nadira Omran, and Nadim Rimawi.
'Salma’s Home', directed by Hanadi Elyan, won the Jordan Film Fund for post-production.
The jurors will evaluate the nominated films using the Festival Scope digital platform, which is a partner of the ACC.
The film will also be screened at the sixth Lebanese Film Festival in Canada, and at the TIFF Bell Lightbox section for feature films.
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The films will compete in three categories, which includes feature films, short films, and the unexecuted scenario.
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The movie, although a remake of the Spanish film 'Campeones', has maintained a regional flavour.
ACC and MAD Solutions Co-Founder Alaa Karkouti will also moderate a panel discussion on February 16.
For the first time, the festival has also shortlisted six Arab films screened in Egyptian theatres to compete for a new award.
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In the past, Hefzy has served on juries at film festivals in London, Venice, Abu Dhabi and Cairo, among others.
The four-day event presented 23 projects in development, including 12 Red Sea Lodge projects, 11 Red Sea Souk projects, and five films in post-production.
This year’s jury of the Arab Critics’ Awards for European Films brings together 71 film critics from 15 Arab nations.
At CID, there will be masterclasses, workshops, and panel discussions with Netflix executives, as well as Netflix Arabic series producers and actors
Over the past three years, CFC has awarded more than $600,000 to support Arab filmmakers.
With the aim to discover the Arab world, EFP and the ACC launched the Arab Critics' Award for European Films in 2019 dedicated to European cinema.
All the submitted projects had the chance of one-on-one meetings with filmmakers, industry experts and consultants to develop screenplays or incomplete versions of films.
The fifth edition of El Gouna Film Festival will screen two Egyptian films 'Amira' and 'Back Home' on October 19.
The festival includes 75 international and regional feature narratives, short films and documentaries from 44 countries.
The Cairo Film Connection has received 110 submissions from across the Arab world and diaspora this year.
The series is presented by the NYUAD Film and New Media Programme in partnership with Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi and The Arts Center.
The new initiative will allow young students who are vaccinated to watch the latest movie releases at AMC Cinemas.
Arab Cinema Center has organised a panel discussion titled 'The New Finance of the Arab World' as part of its activities at the film festival.
The list of 101 Most Influential Personalities in the Arab film industry represented 22 countries, 13 Arab and nine non-Arab countries.
The event, in its fifth year, celebrated the best Arab films that have come out of the region in the past year.
The films are part of Ithra’s commitment to nurture and develop talent across the Kingdom’s creative industries.
The film will be screened at the IFC Center in New York and Laemmle cinemas in Los Angeles.
'Streams' is a joint production between Yol Film House (Tunisia), Tarantula (Luxembourg), MPM Film (France), Clandestino Production (Tunisia) and Allam Film (USA).
Voices Amplified will grant $5641.82 for each project to complete the production of the selected short narratives.
The winners will be announced during the upcoming edition of the Cannes Film Festival.
More than 45 films will participate in the programme, most of which are joint productions between Francophone countries.
Three years since the ban on cinemas was lifted in the kingdom, there are now 34 movie theatres operating in 12 cities across the country.
The upcoming edition will showcase 36 films from across 18 countries, including Arab and North Africa.
There will be opportunities for networking, encounters and meetings in which directors and producers will be able to engage with the participants in the workshop.
The Arab Cinema Centre, a MAD Solutions initiative, has been responsible for bringing more Arab entities to international platforms like Berlinale.
Rotterdam Lab will be launched virtually this year as part of the Rotterdam Film Festival.
Eligible producers from the Arab world can send their submissions for the five-day training workshop till November 10.
While Azra Deniz Okyay took Best Director for the film, nods also went to Ayris Alptekin for Best Editing and to Emrah Özdemir for Best Supporting Actor.
