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FeaturesThe Centrepiece interview: Cairo chief Mohamed Hefzy talks indie cinema, upcoming projects
Egyptian producer and Cairo International Film Festival director Mohamed Hefzy tells Screen about his journey from metallurgical engineer undergraduate in London to A-list festival habitué.
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Arab Critics’ Awards for European Films announces three-strong shortlist
Winner will be announced at the Cairo International Film Festival.
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‘It Must Be Heaven’ kicks off seventh Ajyal Film Festival in Doha
The youth-focused festival has recruited 400 young jurors from 41 countries.
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International feature film Oscar: Middle East contenders
Haifaa Al-Mansour is up with ‘The Perfect Candidate’
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Warner Bros, Paramount, Sony execs to speak at Istanbul emerging cinema markets conference
The conference runs from November 19 to 21.
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‘Just 6.5’: Tokyo Review
Iranian police play a never-ending cat-and-mouse game with the country’s drug dealers in this gripping crime thriller
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‘Africa’ and ‘Reborn’ share top prize at Haifa film festival
Alejandro Amenábar’s ‘While at War’ wins international award.
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‘Coup 53’: London Review
’A sharp-eyed history lesson that unfolds with the pace and fascination of thriller’
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‘The Cave’: London Review
Feras Fayyad’s award-winning documentary follows a female doctor in an underground hospital in Damascus
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Cairo becomes first Arab film festival to sign gender equality charter
The 5050×2020 gender equality charter was launched at the Cannes Film Festival in 2018.
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Yalla Yalla plots Arabic-language ‘Intouchables’ remake
The original film is still France’s third-biggest box office hit.
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Saudi's Red Sea International Film Festival unveils debut lab selection
New initiative is organised in collaboration with the TorinoFilmLab.
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Sudanese drama ‘You Will Die At Twenty’ wins top award at Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival
Festival chief Intishal Al Tamimi says El Gouna Film Festival has built solid foundations.
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Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival hands out $15,000 industry prizes to two Lebanese projects
El Gouna Film Festival’s co-financing platform meted out $250,000 in prizes.
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‘Incitement’ wins top prize at Ophir awards, becomes Israel’s Oscar submission
Six years in the making, the title had been rejected by all Israeli film funds because of its subject matter.
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Alix Benezech, Adam Budron join indie US drama ‘Juliet’ (exclusive)
The film will shoot for four weeks in New York and Paris from October.
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‘Noura’s Dream’: San Sebastian Review
In working-class Tunis, little has changed for women in Hinde Boujemaa’s fiction debut
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Misr International Films, MAD Solutions to co-distribute pan-Arab hit ‘The Blue Elephant 2’
The deal is part of a new collaboration aimed at bolstering the international release of Egyptian features.
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‘Africa’: Toronto Review
Oren Gerner turns the camera on his own family for this portrait of an ageing man railing against inconsequence
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Jury for Arab Critics’ Awards for European Films revealed
The award will be announced at the Cairo International Film Festival I Egypt (November 20-29)
