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Mother, Modris big winners at new Riga festival
New Riga Meetings platform welcomes projects including two projects by Finnish film-maker Aku Louhimies.
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A Little Chaos, The Price of Desire head to Dublin
Alanis Morissette, Vincent Perez and Orla Brady star in Mary McGuckian feature.
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Arab broadcasters call for local genre movies
Two of the Middle East’s biggest broadcasters called on Arab filmmakers to start making more genre movies at a Dubai Film Market (DFM) seminar on Thursday (Dec 11).
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Hobbit leads UK social media buzz
Warner Bros’ climactic outing of The Hobbit trilogy set for chart-topping bow.
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Dubai, Samsung renew short film competition
DIFF and Samsung are joining forces with Dubai’s Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DTCM) on the second edition of the short film competition they inaugurated this year.
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Al-Agroobi set to make fiction debut
Emirati filmmaker Amal Al-Agroobi, best known for her non-fiction works The Brain That Sings and Half, is developing her first narrative work.
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Claire Aguilar joins Sheffield Doc/Fest
EXCLUSIVE: Sheffield Doc/Fest has appointed Claire Aguilar as director of programming and industry engagement.
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Boushahri wins IWC Filmmaker Award
Kuwaiti filmmaker Abdullah Boushahri won the $100,000 IWC Filmmaker Award for his feature project The Water at the Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) on Thursday night.
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Anthony Chen launches Giraffe Pictures
The Ilo Ilo director’s company will produce one or two films per year.
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VOX takes pan-Arab rights to Dolphins
EXCLUSIVE: Dubai-based Vox Cinemas is in final negotiations to acquire pan-Arab rights to Emirati director Waleed Al Shehhi’s Dolphins ahead of its premiere at DIFF on Friday.
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Michael Lumpkin named AFI DOCS director
The producer and former executive director of the International Documentary Association (IDA) will lead the Washington DC-based annual event AFI DOCS.
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Sean Kisker earns Lionsgate stripes
Lionsgate has promoted 11-year veteran Sean Kisker to the newly created position of chief strategy officer and general manager of the Lionsgate Motion Picture Group.
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Mosquito Films picks up As You Were
EXCLUSIVE: Thai sales company Mosquito Films Distribution has picked up Singaporean filmmaker Liao Jiekai’s sophomore feature As You Were.
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Strand picks up The Cut
Strand Releasing has acquired all US rights to Fatih Akin’s quest story starring Tahar Rahim.
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Golden Globes - nominee reactions
Eddie Redmayne was doing holiday shopping when he heard about his nomination and Force Majeure’s Ruben Östlund says he could get used to being pampered. Read on for more reactions.
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Warner Bros sets Geostorm release
Dean Devlin’s action film starring Gerard Butler will open on October 21 2016, the studio has announced.
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Akinnuoye-Agbaje to voice Emirati animation
Nigerian-UK actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje is set to voice the protagonist of an ambitious Emirati feature-length animation inspired by a figure in Arabic folklore.