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NewsiProductions to plough millions into Arab films
EXCLUSIVE: Fledgling company to invest $8-9m in 10 Arab-language productions a year.
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News'Soy Nero' producer teams with Israel, Cyprus
EXCLUSIVE: Producer of Rafi Pitts’ Berlinale Competition title is lining up several new projects.
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NewsSchamus, Oppenheimer join Qumra
Event also announces numerous industry attendees for 2016 edition.
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NewsWizart sells 3D animation 'Urfin'
EXCLUSIVE: Shooting Stars has taken the film for the Middle East, while BestFilm has taken it for the Baltic states.
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NewsAsghar Farhadi mystery project draws buyers
EXCLUSIVE: Iran-set film co-stars Taraneh Alidoosti and Shahab Hosseini.
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NewsHany Abu-Assad set to move 'Mountain Between Us'
Double Oscar nominee has been in Rotterdam with his new feature, The Idol, a biopic of Palestinian singer Mohammad Assaf.
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NewsIslamic extremist doc 'Salafists' sparks controversy in France
Films tackling Islamic extremism get limited theatrical release in France following November attacks.
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NewsDFI names Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Alexander Sokurov Qumra Masters
They join Naomi Kawase and Lucrecia Martel for the second edition of the Doha event.
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NewsBeta Cinema picks up Sundance-Berlinale title 'Sand Storm'
Israeli drama centres on two Bedouin women.
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NewsHaifaa Al Mansour among Doha grantees
Wadjda director among 30 awarded grants in the Doha Film Institute’s latest round of funding.
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NewsBouzid, Soliman win top prizes at DIFF
Leyla Bouzid’s As I Open My Eyes won best fiction film in the Muhr Feature competition at this year’s Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF), while Mahmood Soliman’s We Have Never Been Kids scooped best non-fiction film and best director.
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News'Very Big Shot' trumps competition at Marrakech Film Festival
Francis Ford Coppola’s jury awards all other competition entries a jury prize.
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NewsDIFF: Zawya plots arthouse expansion
Egypt’s Zawya Cinema is expanding outside Cairo to other Egyptian cities as it taps into the country’s small but growing audience for arthouse films.
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NewsDIFF: Image Nation sneak previews The Worthy
Abu Dhabi film company Image Nation gave a sneak peak of Emirati director Ali Mostafa’s upcoming feature The Worthy, set in a dystopian future in chaos following a chronic water shortage, at DIFF on Sunday.
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DIFF: Jacir scoops top prize at DFC
Palestinian filmmaker Annemarie Jacir’s Nazareth-set dark comedy Wajib scooped the top prize at DIFF’s co-financing event the Dubai Film Connection on Sunday.
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NewsDubai 2015: Screen's dailies
Browse Screen International’s daily magazines from the Dubai International Film Festival here.
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NewsDIFF: Nasser seeks shelter with Kharsa debut
Jordanian producer Rula Nasser has boarded Egyptian filmmaker Kasem Kharsa’s feature debut Shelter.
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NewsDIFF: Front Row, VOX team on Very Big Shot
Middle East distributor Front Row Filmed Entertainment and regional exhibitor VOX Cinemas have co-acquired Lebanese thriller Very Big Shot (Kteer Kbeer) for a Gulf release.
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NewsDIFF: Sean McAllister plans UK narrative feature
Award-winning British filmmaker Sean McAllister, whose documentary feature A Syrian Love Story plays here at the Dubai International Film Festival, is working on a story about the UK housing crisis.