All Middle East articles – Page 36
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NewsCairo 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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NewsYalla Yalla plots Arabic-language ‘Intouchables’ remake
The original film is still France’s third-biggest box office hit.
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NewsSaudi's Red Sea International Film Festival unveils debut lab selection
New initiative is organised in collaboration with the TorinoFilmLab.
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NewsWarner Bros names former Disney exec as new senior vice president, marketing EMEA
Charlie Coleman starts in his role this week.
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NewsSudanese 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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NewsEgypt’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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News‘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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Reviews‘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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NewsMisr 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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Reviews‘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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NewsJury for Arab Critics’ Awards for European Films revealed
The award will be announced at the Cairo International Film Festival I Egypt (November 20-29)
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News‘Arab Blues’ starring Golshifteh Farahani scores Canada deal (exclusive)
Farahani as a French-trained psychoanalyst attempting to build a practice in post-revolutionary Tunisia.
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Reviews‘Hava, Maryam, Aleysha’: Venice Review
With her debut feature, Sahraa Karimi explores the lives of three Afghan women
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NewsTerry Gilliam to receive Cairo Film Festival lifetime achievement award
The director will do an in-conversation event at the Cairo Opera House.
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NewsIDFA artistic director Orwa Nyrabia ignites Saudi film festival debate
Festival chief posts incendiary critique of Saudi Arabia’s plans to launch its first major film festival.
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NewsCarine Chaiban joins Dubai-based distributor Front Row Filmed Entertainment
Chaiban takes up the role of senior director of non-theatrical.
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News‘The Perfect Candidate’ producers see bright future for Saudi film industry
Razor Film Produktion shot both Haifaa Al-Mansour’s ’Wadjda’ and her new Venice title.
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FeaturesCan Red Sea Film Festival reconcile its bold vision with Saudi Arabia’s political controversy?
Saudi Arabia is receiving ongoing criticism for its human rights record.
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NewsRed Sea International Film Festival announces $3m worth of prizes
New ‘Yusr’ awards are named after a type of black coral found in the Red Sea.