All Middle East articles – Page 84
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NewsMichael Apted plots Eight Months
EXCLUSIVE: UK director Michael Apted is set to direct an adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s novel Eight Months on Ghazzah Street, which he plans to shoot in the Middle East.
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NewsEurimages mulls border extension
Pan-European production fund Eurimages is mulling how it can extend cooperation beyond the borders of its 36 member states, executive director Roberto Olla revealed at a Film Forum panel on the body on Wednesday.
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NewsEgyptian film rebels form breakaway union
Independent film movement takes root in Cairo challenging film and TV industry’s old guard.
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NewsCINELAN focuses on award finalists
New York-based short film programme CINELAN has announced the 20 finalists in its $200,000 Focus Forward Filmmaker Competition which include films about a low-cost solution to landmine clearance and a model Indian village.
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NewsIraqi-Kuwaiti filmmakers join forces in Babylon
Iraqi-Italian Haider Rashid and Kuwaiti Abdullah Boushahri recently collaborated on It’s About To Rain (Sta Per Piovere).
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NewsStarfield unites Under the Bombs team in London
Quartet behind 2007 road move shot against backdrop of 2006 Lebanese War reunites for comedy, provisionally entitled London Haram.
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NewsDCAA launches Emirati filmmaker project
The Dubai Culture & Arts Authority (DCAA) has commissioned three Emirati filmmakers - Ali F. Mostafa, Nayla Al Khaja and Khalid Ali - to make short films for a new cultural initiative, Soul Of Dubai.
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ReviewsThe Lebanese Rocket Society
Dirs/scr: Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige. Lebanon-France-Qatar. 2012. 95mins
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NewsPachachi wins IWC Schaffhausen filmmaker award
Maysoon Pachachi was presented with the $100,000 IWC Schaffhausen Filmmaker Award for her project Nothing Doing In Baghdad at a glittering ceremony at the Dubai International Film Festival last night.
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NewsEgypt’s Zad goes into exile with Mact Productions
Amr Waked and Salah Al-Hanafy’s Cairo-based Zad Communication is embarking on its first international co-production, teaming with Paris-based Mact Productions on The Exile, a romantic and political drama set against the backdrop of Luxor in the 1980s.
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NewsWael Omar tackles Egypt's football Ultras
The footballing massacre that claimed the lives of 74 young men and injured a thousand more in the Port Said soccer stadium this February is the subject of a new documentary feature to be directed by award-winning Egyptian filmmaker Wael Omar.
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NewsMasharawi wraps West Bank-set Palestine Stereo
Palestinian director Rashid Masharawi has wrapped his latest feature Palestine Stereo and is looking for post-production finance, according to Tunisian producer Habib Attia of Cinetelefilms.
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NewsThe Attack, A Hijacking among Marrakech winners
Ziad Doueiri’s The Attack wins top prize, A Hijacking shares Jury Prize and scoops Best Actor for Soren Malling.
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Euromed spearheads launch of MENA distributors network
A consortium of around 20 distributors from across the Middle East has launched a new regional network, provisionally called MEDIS.
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NewsFirst Afghan web TV channel launches
Kabul and Dubai-based producer Hamida Aman has launched Afghanistan’s first web TV channel Globox.tv, tapping into the country’s burgeoning social media culture.
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NewsWide Management sells Zabana! to Cinecitta Luce
Cinecittà Luce has acquired Italian rights to Algerian Saïd Ould-Khelifa’s Zabana!, a contender in Dubai’s Muhr Arab feature competition, from French sales company Wide Management.
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NewsFront Row hunts down Bloodsport, Reykjavik
Front Row Entertainment, the Dubai-based distributor that is among the world’s most prolific pre-buyers of independent films, has added several more titles to its brimming release slate.
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NewsPinto, Apted, Barreto among Dubai film festival jurors
The Dubai International Film Festival has announced the juries for its Muhr competition strands, which include actress Freida Pinto, Brazilian filmmaker Bruno Barreto and UK director Michael Apted.