All Lebanon articles
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News‘Revolutionaries Never Die’, ‘The Side Effects of Trusting Life’ take top prizes at Cairo Film Connection
Palestinian documentary project by Mohanad Yaqubi and Lebanese filmmaker Jocelyne Saab narrative comedy each win $10,000 awards.
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NewsFilm Clinic and Front Row team for Omar Hilal’s ‘His Weakest Creatures’ starring Ahmed Helmy and Hend Sabry
Hilal previously directed Voy! Voy! Voy!, Egypt’s submission to the Academy Awards
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Features“Investors want to feel connected to a film”: Abbout Productions on raising financing from the Lebanese diaspora
Georges Schoucair and Myriam Sassine have steered a slew of films to A-list festivals despite the meltdown of Lebanon’s economy.
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NewsCate Blanchett, Nadine Labaki support Beirut film hub launch
The venue will house screenings, industry training and efforts to preserve film heritage in the region.
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NewsAnthology ‘Disorder’ about life in Lebanon acquired by Front Row ahead of El Gouna
Four shorts blend drama and dark humour to explore Lebanon’s recent tumultuous years.
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FeaturesFuture Leaders 2024: Rabih El Khoury (Lebanon & Germany)
He is especially passionate about Arab cinema, as well as cinema from the rest of the global south.
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NewsMAD World takes sales on Lebanese thriller ‘In This Darkness I See You’ (exclusive)
The newly launched sales company will launch the ghost story at the Cannes market.
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NewsFront Row planning feature, series around Lebanese bank robber Sally Hafez
Front Row Productions is also exploring a documentary and podcast series.
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Reviews‘Portrait Of A Certain Orient’: Rotterdam Review
A brother and sister depart 1940s Lebanon for a new life in Brazil in the latest from Marcelo Gomes
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NewsMunich Film Up! mentoring programme unveils 2023 participants (exclusive)
The selected participants have all recently graduated from film school and are hoping to develop their feature debut.
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Reviews‘In The Shadow Of Beirut’: Galway Review
Backed by Hillary and Chelsea Clinton, this Lebanon-set documentary presents a troubling portrait of life in Sabra and Shatila
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Reviews‘Machtat’: Visions du Reel Review
A trio of female wedding singers find freedom in their art in this involving Tunisian documentary
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FeaturesArab Stars of Tomorrow 2022: Ziad Jallad, actor (Lebanon)
Jallad starred in Venice title ’Dirty Difficult Dangerous’.
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FeaturesArab Stars of Tomorrow 2022: Dania Bdeir, writer/director (Lebanon)
Bdeir’s short ‘Warsha’ has picked up over 45 festival awards.
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Reviews‘Riverbed’: Cairo Review
A mother and daughter struggle to reconnect in Bassem Breche’s imagery-led feature debut
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Reviews‘Dirty Difficult Dangerous’: Hamburg Review
Two refugees find love against the odds in modern Beirut
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NewsReclaim the Frame x International unveils participants in Filmonomics training programme (exclusive)
The Filmonomics course will be led by director of Birds’ Eye View Melanie Iredale and training manager Simone Glover,
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Reviews‘The Dam’: Cannes Review
Ali Cherri’s Directors’ Fortnight feature debut about a Sudanese brick-maker is a striking allegorical tale
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NewsIndie Sales boards Ali Cherri’s Directors’ Fortnight title ‘The Dam’ (exclusive)
Lebanese director Cherri is also a celebrated artist whose work is currently showing at The National Gallery and Venice Biennale
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FeaturesQumra mentor Ghassan Salhab talks about his early career and his new Beirut vampire film
Senegalese-born, Lebanese-French director talks about his hands-off mentoring approach.