All articles by Mona Sheded
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NewsEgyptian box office set to surpass pre-Covid levels in 2025
Eight out of the top 10 releases so far in 2025 are Egyptian films, according to study published by Cairo Industry Days.
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NewsPaul Andrew Williams’ ‘Dragonfly’ wins top prize at Cairo film festival
Andrea Riseborough and Brenda Blethyn shared the best actress award for their performances in Dragonfly.
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News‘Revolutionaries Never Die’, ‘The Side Effects of Trusting Life’ take top prizes at Cairo Film Connection
Palestinian documentary project by Mohanad Yaqubi and Lebanese filmmaker Jocelyne Saab narrative comedy each win $10,000 awards.
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NewsCairo Film Connection shines spotlight on projects by female Arab directors
Development and works-in-progress strand of Cairo International Film Festival has 16-strong line-up across features and documentaries.
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NewsCairo unveils 2025 official selection and sets ‘The Blue Trail’ as opening film
Festival’s 14-strong international competition includes nine international films and five from the MENA region
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NewsCairo festival heads talk spotlighting Arab cinema and collaborating with regional events
Cairo International Film Festival’s 46th edition highlights the latest in Egyptian and Arab cinema.
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NewsIraq’s Oscar entry ‘The President’s Cake’ lands MENA distribution
EXCLUSIVE: The film premiered at Cannes where it won the Camera d’Or.
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FeaturesPalestine’s Kamal Aljafari talks Locarno competitor ‘With Hasan In Gaza’
The Palestinian filmmaker pieced together the documentary from footage shot in 2001.
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NewsAflamuna Connection reveals 18 Arab filmmaker projects for ninth edition
EXCLUSIVE: The projects span fiction, documentary, docu-fiction and animation.
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NewsYaqoub Alfarhan, Adwa Bader join Hana Al-Omair’s ‘Dancing On Fire’ (exclusive)
Based on bestselling Saudi novel ’Divers Of The Desert’ by Amal Al-Faran.
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NewsTunisia's Dhafer L’Abidine wraps ‘Sophia’ with cast including Jessica Brown Findlay (exclusive)
L’Abidine wrote, directed and also stars in drama about cultural crossover between the Middle East and the west
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FeaturesArab Stars of Tomorrow 2024: Essam Omar, actor (Egypt)
Omar starred in Venice Horizons title ’Seeking Haven For Mr Rambo’.
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FeaturesArab Stars of Tomorrow 2024: Mohsen Alkhalifi, producer (Yemen)
Alkhalfi’s two features have been the only two to ever represent his country at the Academy Awards.
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FeaturesArab Stars of Tomorrow 2024: Maria Bahrawi, actress (Saudi Arabia)
In the AlUla-shot Norah, Bahrawi plays an illiterate orphan from a remote Saudi Arabian village in the 1990s.
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FeaturesArab Stars of Tomorrow 2024: Oumaima Barid, actress (Morocco)
Barid is enjoing a breakout moment after landing four lead roles in quick succession.
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FeaturesArab Stars of Tomorrow 2024: Zain Duraie, writer/director (Jordan)
Duarie has just shot her first feature Sink in Amman and is currently in post-production.
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FeaturesIn focus: The 2024 Red Sea Lodge projects
Twelve rising filmmakers are vying to be among the four picked to share Red Sea Lodge’s $180,000 prize pool, including two submissions from Asia for the first time.
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Features“I like a challenge”: director Karim Elshenawy on telling ’The Tale Of Daye’s Family’
The inspirations behind family drama ’The Tale Of Daye’s Family’, which opens the 2024 Red Sea International Film Festival.
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NewsCairo Film Connection’s funding platform spotlights 18 projects by Arab filmmakers
Rodrigo Brum, director of the Cairo Film Festival’s funding platform, on the selected projects for its 10th anniversary edition.
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FeaturesCairo film festival returns with fresh leadership and a renewed vision after 2023 cancellation
In October 2023, less than a month before the opening of the 45th edition, the festival and market were cancelled following the outbreak of the Israel-Gaza conflict.