Georges Khabbaz stars alongside German film legend Hanna Schygulla in Ameer Fakher Eldin’s melancholic drama about an exiled Syrian writer who travels to a North Sea island, contemplating suicide. By ...
The sound of aircraft intrudes upon the lives of Gazan refugees in many of the 22 short films that comprise From Ground Zero, the centerpiece film at this year’s Arab Film Festival. Sometimes the men, ...
Arab cinema continues to break new ground with a fresh crop of social dramas, several of which depict female empowerment in different forms. These range from the tale of a young woman who fakes being ...
From left, Abdallah Sada, Alaa Alasad, Mohammad Siam, Israel Banuelos, Bassam Alasad, Mohammad Nizar, director Zain Duraie, Clara Khoury, George Christopoulos, Glenn Gainor, Ghalia Hatamleh and Lara ...
Where the Wind Comes From, premier long métrage de la réalisatrice tunisienne Amel Guellaty, représentera la Tunisie dans la compétition officielle des longs métrages de fiction de la 16ᵉ édition du ...
Still from Gaza Surf Club (2016) (all images courtesy Arab Film and Media Institute) Stories about teenage heartbreak, Gazan surfers, embroidery communities, and more can be accessed this month in a ...
“I will promise you,” introduced Ayouch, “in tonight’s film there is not one terrorist, there are no explosions, there are no politics. Tonight we show how people actually live.” This was only an ...
Look for Arab cinema and lots of docs at festivals this week. First up is the always impressively programmed Arab Film Festival, presented by the San Francisco-based Arab Film and Media Institute, ...
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Arab Filmmakers Find Voice and Validation at the Amman Film Festival's Pitching Platforms
AMMAN - At a time when Arab cinema is grappling with questions of voice, visibility, and viability, the Pitching Platforms at the Amman International Film Festival (AIFF) offered something rare: a ...
You’d have to be mad in these days of Mid East conflict to want to ride a motorcycle to every Arab nation in the world, but that’s exactly what 26-year-old Matt VanDyke did. And didn’t it get him in ...
MAD Solutions, the first Pan-Arab independent studio and fully integrative marketing and creative consultancy for the Arab film and entertainment industry, has announced the acquisition of more than ...
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