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NewsRapman, Trevor Noah projects among first Next Narrative Africa Fund film and TV slate
$50m in content funding to be deployed over five years.
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NewsQatar’s Qumra lab moves online-only due to Iran war
Event focus will remain on private one-on-one mentorship.
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NewsAfrica’s Realness Institute appoints new board, advisory council
Four-person board will be supported by nine-person advisory council.
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NewsMarianne Khoury steps down as El Gouna Film Festival artistic director
The filmmaker oversaw three editions of the festival in Egypt.
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NewsIdris Elba on how building “practical pathways” for African filmmakers will help diversify the industry
Elba is an exec producer on Berlinale Forum documentary ‘Crocodile’, directed by five Nigerian YouTubers and NZ filmmaker Pietra Brettkelly.
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NewsGael Garcia Bernal, Alice Diop, Diego Luna among Qumra 2026 Masters
Event will run from March 27 to April 1.
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NewsBêtes Sauvages, Lunar Pictures producers among Matchmakers Global South lab cohort
EXCLUSIVE: Lab includes 10 features from UK producers looking for international partners in Global South.
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NewsArab filmmakers return to Berlin to talk politics
Films in selection include Abdallah Alkhatib’s ’ Chronicles From The Siege’ and Rania Rafei’s ’The Day Of Wrath: Tales From Tripoli’.
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NewsSteve Toussaint, Sanaa Lathan to lead C.J. Obasi’s psychological drama ‘A Blue Butterfly’
EXCLUSIVE: Film will start production next month in UK and Rwanda.
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NewsMAD World boards ‘Blue Card’ from Cannes award-winning Sudanese filmmakers
EXCLUSIVE: The project was selected for the Berlinale Co-Production Market but the filmmakers withdraw after visa issues.
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NewsAcclaimed Sudanese filmmakers pull out of Berlinale Co-Pro Market after visa rejection over “migration risk”
EXCLUSIVE: The director and producer of ‘Blue Card’ previously produced Cannes award-winner ‘Goodbye Julia’.
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NewsProduction underway in Ethiopia on Toronto-based Gobez Media’s 1970s-set thriller ‘Mehal Sefari’
EXCLUSIVE: Ethiopian-Canadian Tamara Mariam Dawit produces.
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NewsJason Statham thriller ‘Shelter’ revives Saudi box office after opening top across MENA
Directed by Ric Roman Waugh, the action thriller was released in the region by Front Row Filmed Entertainment.
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News‘It Was Just An Accident’ co-writer arrested in Iran after condemning regime
Jafar Panahi responds with statement: “Mehdi Mahmoudian is a witness, a listener, and a rare moral presence.”
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NewsBassel Ghandour, Hinde Boujemaa projects among Doha Film Institute’s autumn selection
Latest funding round sees the DFI surpass 1,000 supported projects worldwide since the programme’s inception.
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NewsIranian filmmakers call for help amid government’s brutal crackdown on protests
Iranian Independent Filmmakers Association said: “Another Tiananmen tragedy is forming before our eyes, with a magnitude ten times greater”.
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NewsFirst-ever Rohingya-language feature ‘Lost Land’ wins top prize at Red Sea film festival
Further winners include ‘All That’s Left Of You’ and ‘Hijra’.
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NewsIdris Elba to stop acting “eventually to transfer to being a director fully”
Elba discussed his Ghana-filmed Apple feature ‘This Is How It Goes’.
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NewsRed Sea Competition psychological thriller ‘Roqia’ sells to US
EXCLUSIVE: Film has played festival circuit since Venice, winning awards at Leeds and Thessaloniki.
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NewsMaha Haj, Mohamed Kordofani projects scoop Red Sea Souk awards
Saudi project ‘Dhel’ secured three prizes.