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NewsGulf Film Festival to feature 78 world premieres
Sixth edition opens today [April 11] with Haifaa Al-Mansour’s Wadjda.
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NewsGulf fest readies first film market
The 6th Gulf Film Festival (GFF) has announced it will screen 169 films later this month for free to the public and will host the inaugural Gulf Film Market.
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NewsNabil Ben Yadir shooting 'Marche des Beurs' film
Jamel Debbouze, Olivier Gourmet, Lubna Azabal and Hafsia Herzi star in story of “Marche des Beurs.”
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BPX brainstorms funding issues
BPX (Best Practice Exchange), the new initiative that brings together heads of film agencies from around the world to brainstorm on “best practice in public funding for filmmaking,” has held its inaugural meeting.
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NewsAbu Dhabi fest sets 2013 dates
The Abu Dhabi Film Festival (ADFF) will return for its seventh edition this year from Oct 24 to Nov 2.
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NewsHefzy named artistic director of Ismalia
Egypt’s Ismalia International Film Festival has named producer and writer Mohamed Hefzy artistic director.
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Second British Film Festival coming to Kurdistan
The second British Film Festival will be held in Iraq’s Kurdistan region this month. A programme of films, screening in Erbil, will celebrate British cinema as well as the growing relationship between Kurdistan and the UK.New this year, the festival will also show some shorts and medium-length films by Kurdish ...
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NewsParticipant, DFI in $100m fund
Participant Media and Doha Film Institute (DFI) announced a $100m revolving fund on Wednesday [13] to back what is expected to be 12-16 features over five years.
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NewsHPI thrills with Untitled Elmore Leonard
EXCLUSIVE: Hyde Park Entertainment has brought on Image Nation Abu Dhabi to split financing on Untitled Elmore Leonard Project, shooting now in Connecticut.
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NewsMauritius launches 30% film tax incentive
EXCLUSIVE: Island nation also plans to sign co-production treaties.
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NewsThe Red Shoes to kick off Doha's UK cinema showcase
A programme of monthly public screenings will take place at the Museum of Islamic Art in celebration of Qatar-UK 2013.
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NewsDolby Atmos continues EMEA roll-out
Immersive sound system installed in sixteen cinemas; studios embracing mixing technology.
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NewsWadjda, Inside clinch top prizes at Dubai film festival
Haifaa Al Mansour’s Wadjda won both best film and best actress in the Muhr Arab feature competition at this year’s Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF), while Turkish drama Inside won best film and best actor in the Muhr AsiaAfrica competition.
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NewsCairo to get first indie screen
Egyptian filmmaker Tamer El Said of Zero Production and The Kite Runner star and filmmaker Khalid Abdalla spearhead creation of Cimatheque theatre.
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NewsRabbit's Killing next for Jayasundara
Paris-based Sri Lankan director Vimukthi Jayasundara’s next feature will be a tale of homecoming set in Galle, a port-city in southern Sri Lanka.
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Namibia mulls production incentive
The Namibian Film Commission (FC) is considering the introduction of incentives for international productions shooting in the southern African country, which is fast becoming a hot new international location.
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NewsSaints team in tandem on The Cycle
Musa Syeed, director of Kashmir-set Valley Of Saints, is re-teaming with producer Nicholas Bruckman and DoP Yoni Brook to shoot his next feature The Cycle in the Republic of Yemen.
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NewsMonaliza heads to Marrakech
Distributor and exhibitor Marrakech Spectacles has picked up Moroccan rights for Jordanian director Fadi G. Haddad’s romantic comedy When MonaLiza Smiled, which is screening in DIFF’s Muhr Arab Feature competition.
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NewsDubai Filmmart set for expansion
The Dubai Film Market’s trading platform Filmmart wraps this weekend following a successful fifth edition with several acquisitions under negotiation and plans for expansion next year.
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NewsBatata, Night, Murdoch scoop top DFC prizes
Lebanese feature documentary Batata, contemporary Tunisian drama A Full Moon Night and Jordanian producer Rula Nasser’s Me, Myself And Murdoch won the top three prizes of $25,000 each at the close of DIFF’s co-production market Dubai Film Connection.