All Middle East articles – Page 100
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NewsFirst Grader producers Sixth Sense develop $25m Libya-set film
Story based on true story of Bulgarian medics tortured to confess about crimes against children.
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NewsTelepool handling sales for first film from Cinema Jenin
Munich-based Telepool is handling international sales on the documentary After The Silence, which is the first film project to be supported by the German-Palestinian initiative Cinema Jenin.Produced by Marcus Vetter, the director of the award-winning The Heart of Jenin, After The Silence has been directed by two young German filmmakers ...
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NewsTobe Hooper to direct Imagenation's horror Djinn
Poltergeist and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre director takes on horror to shoot in UAE.
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NewsTropfest heads to Abu Dhabi
Tropfest Arabia will premiere in Abu Dhabi in November 2011; competition open to Middle East and North African countries.
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NewsAdu Dhabi delegation has busy Berlin
The Abu Dhabi Film Commission, in partnership with the European Producers Club, brought five UAE producers to the Berlinale.
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NewsBerlin competition heats up with hot seller Nader & Simin
Asghar Farhadi’s feted Competition title Nader & Simin: A Separation has closed a number of deals.
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NewsKish Film Festival set to launch in April
The island festival will showcase films from Iran, Middle East and Central Asia.
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NewsNew international filmmaking lab launches in Jerusalem
New international lab will award production prizes of $80,000.
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NewsFilms Distribution chats up The Slut
Israeli-German co-production is directed by Hagar Ben Asher.
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NewsBlack Gold shoot now moves to Qatar for four weeks
Production moves from Tunisia to desert dunes of Mesaieed.
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NewsFlowers to bloom with Iraqi release
Fariborz Kamkari’s The Flowers Of Kirkuk, being sold by Adriana Chiesa in the EFM, is set to be released in Iraq in late March.
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NewsMichael Garin appointed Imagenation CEO
Garin assumes the role after three and a half years on the executive committee of Imagenation parent company Abu Dhabi Media Company.
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FeaturesDigging for gold
The ambitious $55m oil epic Black Gold is emblematic of the rising ambition of film-making in the Middle East. Geoffrey Macnab speaks to producer Tarak Ben Ammar about mounting an international epic on which he first started work more than 30 years ago
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NewsGulf Film Festival adds shorts competition
2011 edition expands to include in competition shorts section
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NewsWestEnd takes on Panorama title Invisible
Michal Aviad’s feature tells the story of two women haunted by a shared experience.