All Middle East articles – Page 88
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NewsSoda goes for UK ride with Wadjda
EXCLUSIVE: Soda Pictures strikes deal with The Match Factory for Haifaa Al-Mansour’s Venice buzzer.
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NewsDubai festival works with Arab British Centre, ICA on Middle Eastern showcase
The Arab British Centre and the Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) are collaborating to create a showcase that raises awareness of the diversity andvibrancy of Middle Eastern film.
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NewsArbitrage to open Abu Dhabi
Sundance hit Arbitrage to open the Abu Dhabi Film Festival; festival to include Algerian films sidebar; programme announced September 25.
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NewsConstantin, Nordisk among DreamWorks output partners
The studio and its new strategic partner Mister Smith pulled back the curtain on more of their international distribution strategy on Monday (17) after signing a number of multi-year deals in Toronto.
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Zurich adds nine titles to festival slate
The Zurich Film Festival adds nine films, taking its total to 120.
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NewsSyrian producer Orwa Nyrabia reported freed
Producer and pan-Arab DOX BOX film festival founder had been missing since August 23.
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NewsTen days on, still no news on missing Syrian producer Orwa Nyrabia
The Toronto International Film Festival, the Cannes Film Festival, French producer and directors body L’ARP and director MartinScorsese join chorus of concern for missing producer.
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Wadjda director vows to keep working in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia’s first female film director Haifaa Al Mansour, whose debut feature Wadjda was enthusiastically received in Venice, has made an outspoken plea for women’s rights in her homeland.
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NewsEurimages confirms Canada and Israel in talks to join fund; Gulf countries could follow
Roberto Olla, executive director of Eurimages (The Council of Europe’s film fund) has again raised the possibility that Eurimages will become a fund “that goes beyond the geographical limit of Europe.”
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NewsThe Reluctant Fundamentalist to open fourth Doha Tribeca Film Festival
DFI backed the project; Nair kicked off inaugural Doha festival with Amelia.
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Match Factory closes French deal for Wadjda with Pretty Pictures
First feature to be shot entirely in Saudi Arabia.
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NewsSwipe Films boards Winter Of Discontent
EXCLUSIVE: Company to handle international sales for Ibrahim El Batout’s film centred around the Arab Spring.
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