Red Sea Int’l Film Festival unveils Red Sea: New Vision and Series strands
The newly revealed films have become part of a collection of 60 additional titles disclosed in the last three weeks.
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The newly revealed films have become part of a collection of 60 additional titles disclosed in the last three weeks.
CFC is targeted at supporting talents in the Arab world and this year's selection stands out with the presence of strong female-driven projects.
The event gives audiences a chance to explore independent Arab Cinema.
This programme features a collection of short films that delve into rarely-told narratives.
A film screening event over the weekend will honor the artistry of Arab short films and delve into the realms of creative and artistic expression through individual and collective histories.
The line-up consists of 56 films from 19 countries, including feature-length narratives, documentaries, and shorts.
The dates of the 27th edition are still pending due to local restrictions, but it is currently scheduled for November 10-19.
Aiming to support films from Saudi, the Arab world and Africa, Film AlUla will finance 10 Fund-selected and Fund-winning projects, alongside the opportunity to shoot the film partially or entirely ...
Actress Kholoud Tannous and director Ward Kayyal will attend the screening of 'Hamza: Chasing the Ghost Chasing Me', one of the selected films.
The development cycle received a record-breaking 497 submissions.
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.
The submission is exclusively open to films and projects directed by Arab and African nationalities/origin.
The winners will be announced during the upcoming edition of Cannes Film Festival.
The festival will open with 'Daughters of Abdulrahman' by Zaid Abu Hamdan on April 20.
Arabian Sights showcases films exploring the complex realities of the Arab region.
The screening of Arab films will take place in International Feature Film Competition and Burning Lights Competition.
The ACC will also be launching the 18th issue of its Arab Cinema Magazine during the activities of the Berlinale.
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.
The festival has brought together emerging and established artists and filmmakers to reflect their visions of ‘Stories at One with Nature.’
'Huda’s Salon' recently screened as the opening film of the 13th edition of the Middle East Now Festival in Florence, Italy.
In order to make this a recurring event in Dubai, Cinema Akil has partnered with Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, Goethe Institut Gulf Region, and Safar Film Festival.
The selection includes films from Algeria, Egypt, France, Jordan, Indonesia, Morocco, Palestine, Syria and Tunisia, highlighting DFI's support for independent voices in cinema.
The Iranian project also participated in the Berlinale Co-Production Market in 2022.
Back home in India, especially in the cities, cultural activities, street theatre and country-specific week-long film screenings are pretty common practice, widening our outlook on the world and enabling us ...
Director Noah Baumbach’s adaptation of Don DeLillo’s 1985 novel 'White Noise' has been selected to open the festival on August 31.
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 line-up consists of 52 films from 29 countries, including feature-length narratives, documentaries, and shorts.
Lina Matta has plenty of notches to her belt, from starting as a reporter in her home country, to producing documentaries in the US, to her current role as Director ...
The importance of good content and storytelling is gaining more recognition within the Arab world.
The event will close with Egyptian film 'Hamel al-Lakab'.
On Saturdays, the screening will be followed by a live Q&A session with the filmmakers.
Through the films, the festival aims to introduce a new perspective on Arab culture and community.
ALFILM will screen a selection of feature films, documentaries, and short films from the Arab world exploring political and social issues, migration, as well as personal crises.
For the first time, the festival has also shortlisted six Arab films screened in Egyptian theatres to compete for a new award.
Suzannah Mirghani is the writer, director, and producer of 'Al-Sit', which won 26 international awards, including four Academy Award qualifying prizes.
This year also marks the return of Cairo Industry Days, a subsection of the festival that helps budding filmmakers from the MENA region get into the industry.
From the vast majority of entries received, the film festival has selected 17 movies from Oman, Egypt, Iraq, Tunisia, Guinea, Lebanon, Algeria, the UK, Morocco and Denmark to screen at ...
Somalia makes history with 'The Gravedigger's Wife' for the first Oscar submission.
'Hit the Road' has won the Best Film award and 'Costa Brava, Lebanon' secured the Audience Award.
Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof’s There Is No Evil, co-produced by Kaveh Farnam, is nominated under the Best Feature Film category.
'Al-Sit' is written and directed by Suzannah Mirghani, who co-produced it with Eiman Mirghani.
The programme has been curated by Youssef Shazli and Alia Ayman, co-founders of Egyptian arthouse cinema and distributor Zawya.
The lineup includes films from Lebanon, Morocco, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Palestine and Tunisia.
The beneficiaries hail from Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Mauritania, Morocco, Palestine, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.
The 14 fiction features and documentaries hail from Palestine, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Qatar, Iraq, Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco.
The film is a joint production between Egypt, Jordan and Palestine and is written by the trio Mohamed, Khaled, and Sherine Diab.
This edition includes 51 films from 26 countries, all recent productions between 2020 and 2021.
Lebanese filmmaker Mounia Akl and Syrian filmmaker Diana El Jeiroudi will compete at the event.
The films are being scheduled for release at the end of summer.
The winners will be announced during the upcoming edition of the Cannes Film Festival.
The $10m Red Sea Fund will back more than 100 projects in its first year, as well as episodic content.
Films from six MENA countries including Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Lebanon will take part in the short film festival in North America.
Egyptian director Omar El Zohairy and Tunisian-French filmmaker Leyla Bouzid will compete at the event.
The film recently ended a festival tour around the world, during which it picked up over 20 international awards.
Cannes returns this year with an official selection that includes Asghar Farhadi, Nadav Lapid, and more.
The two-day event will see premieres alongside short films in a programme of recent works by Saudi directors.
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 film festival will honour Egyptian actress Elham Shaheen for her long career and achievement in the film industry.
