All Middle East articles – Page 27
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NewsSyrian political thriller ‘The Translator’ heads to the US (exclusive)
Feature is set in the early days of the Syrian revolution.
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NewsInaugural Red Sea International Film Festival sets 2021 dates
Event will be Saudi Arabia’s first major international film festival.
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NewsSaudi’s Muvi Cinemas, Telfaz11 forge content partnership (exclusive)
The partners aim to create a film fund for local feature productions.
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NewsUAE’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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Features25 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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FeaturesOscars 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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FeaturesPerspectives 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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NewsNadine 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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NewsAnnemarie Jacir’s first TV series among 39 projects to secure Doha grants
Qatari institution continues support for filmmakers in the Arab world.
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News‘Limbo’ wins Golden Pyramid at Cairo film festival
Other winners included Russian drama ‘Conference’ and Egyptian documentary ‘Lift Like A Girl’.
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NewsChristian Petzold’s ‘Undine’ wins second Arab Critics’ Awards for European Films
The prize is a joint initiative of the European Film Promotion and the Arab Cinema Centre (ACC).
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NewsMasks and mummies: How the Cairo film festival navigated the pandemic
The festival is one of the last physical film events to take place in 2020.
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NewsTIFF Industry Selects title ‘Falling For Figaro’ seals international deals (exclusive)
Ben Lewin’s romantic comedy headed across Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
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FeaturesArab Stars of Tomorrow 2020: Mehdi Ramdani, actor (Algeria)
Ramdani is the co-lead in historical drama Héliopolis, which is Algeria’s submission to the Oscars.
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FeaturesArab Stars of Tomorrow 2020: Sameh Alaa director (Egypt)
Egypt’s Sameh Alaa made history this year as the only filmmaker to clinch a Palme d’Or at Cannes.
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FeaturesArab Stars of Tomorrow 2020: Tara Abboud, actress (Palestine-Jordan)
Next year Abboud will star in Egyptian director Mohamed Diab’s drama Amira.
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FeaturesArab Stars of Tomorrow 2020: Hana Al Omair, director (Saudi Arabia)
Hana Al Omair’s thriller Whispers became one of Saudi Arabia’s first TV dramas to launch on Netflix.