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NewsUni sets first wave of ‘F9’ releases in May for China, Russia, South Korea, Middle East
Second phase to follow when markets enter more robust pandemic recovery phases.
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Prague’s Filmotor picks up Berlinale, CPH:DOX feature ‘As I Want’ (exclusive)
Documentary explores the fight for female emancipation in the Middle East.
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Disney+ appoints UK commissioning exec as EMEA director of scripted content
Lee Mason has been a commissioner at UK broadcaster Channel 4.
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Tunisian star Dhafer L’Abidine to make directorial debut with ‘Ghodwa’
L’Abidine’s recent acting credits have included The Eddy and Arabic horror movie Bloodline.
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Venice title ‘Careless Crime’ sells to North America (exclusive)
Award-winning Iranian film has previously sold to France, Italy and Germany.
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Reviews
‘The Return: Life After Isis’: SXSW Review
In a desolate camp in Northern Syria, stateless ‘Isis Brides’ open up to Alba Sotorra’s sympathetic lens
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Doha Film Institute’s Qumra talent incubator launches 2021 edition
The seventh edition will nurture 48 projects by first and second-time directors hailing mainly from the Arab world.
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Shahrbanoo Sadat wins script award ahead of Berlinale Co-Production Market
Afghan filmmaker’s ‘Kabul Jan’ won the Baumi Script Development Award.
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Syrian political thriller ‘The Translator’ heads to the US (exclusive)
Feature is set in the early days of the Syrian revolution.
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Inaugural Red Sea International Film Festival sets 2021 dates
Event will be Saudi Arabia’s first major international film festival.
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Saudi’s Muvi Cinemas, Telfaz11 forge content partnership (exclusive)
The partners aim to create a film fund for local feature productions.
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UAE’s Front Row, Qatar’s beIN Media Group strike new SVoD output deal
New deal covers Front Rows premium English-language feature acquisitions.
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Reviews
‘Captains Of Zaatari’: Sundance Review
In a refugee camp in Jordan, football offers hope to two young boys
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Reviews
‘Sabaya’: Sundance Review
Tense and riveting doc follows attempts to free captured Yazidi women from the notorious Al-Hol camp
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Features
25 films from Asia, the Middle East and North Africa to tempt festival directors in 2021
Screen rounds up key contenders vying for the attention of programmers out of Asia, the Middle East and North Africa.
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Features
Oscars international feature race: Africa and Middle East contenders
Africa last snagged an Oscar nomination in 2011 with Algeria’s Outside The Law , while the Middle East has scored seven nods and two wins in the past decade.
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Perspectives on 2020: Nadine Labaki on how the Beirut explosion shaped her pandemic year
The writer, director and actress reveals how the devastating Beirut explosion pushed her back into filmmaking
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Nadine Labaki joins Arabic-language ‘Perfect Strangers’ remake as shoot dates set
Production, which was postponed twice in 2020 due to Covid-19 pandemic, to shoot in early 2021.
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Reviews
‘Lift Like A Girl’: Review
Behind the scenes at Egypt’s unorthodox training camp for champion female weightlifters
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