Two Egyptian directors to participate in Cannes funding programmes
Their projects are among 15 others selected to apply for funding at Cannes 2022.
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Their projects are among 15 others selected to apply for funding at Cannes 2022.
The submissions for the 44th edition will officially open on May 15 and close on August 15.
Ramses will take up the role immediately to manage the 44th edition, which is expected to take place in the second half of November 2022.
Through this collaboration, the El Gouna Film Festival aims to reach a large number of audiences, especially emerging filmmakers who cannot attend the festival.
Hussein Fahmy, who served as president of the film festival between 1998 and 2001, will return to the position.
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Khoury has produced and co-produced around 30 feature films and documentaries that won awards in regional and international festivals.
In the past, Hefzy has served on juries at film festivals in London, Venice, Abu Dhabi and Cairo, among others.
'Banat Abdul Rahman' is the debut feature of Jordanian writer/director Zaid Abu Hamdan and AMN’s first attempt at producing a feature film.
Palestine has selected 'The Stranger' as its official entry for the Academy Awards 2022.
Weyyak was also one of the main sponsors of the film festival, which concluded on December 5.
The film is also competing at the International Competition of Cairo International Film Festival.
This project had received the IWC Filmmaker Award worth $100,000 at the Dubai International Film Festival several years ago.
The feature film has already been shown at a number of festivals and won several awards.
This year’s jury of the Arab Critics’ Awards for European Films brings together 71 film critics from 15 Arab nations.
The Cairo Industry Youth Days will also feature a Costume Design workshop from El Adl.
This year also marks the return of Cairo Industry Days, a subsection of the festival that helps budding filmmakers from the MENA region get into the industry.
At CID, there will be masterclasses, workshops, and panel discussions with Netflix executives, as well as Netflix Arabic series producers and actors
Over the past three years, CFC has awarded more than $600,000 to support Arab filmmakers.
The CIFF 43rd edition is scheduled to take place from November 26 to December 5.
With the aim to discover the Arab world, EFP and the ACC launched the Arab Critics' Award for European Films in 2019 dedicated to European cinema.
Bakri said he doesn’t hold festival organisers responsible, but hoped the management will seek to find out who is behind the deportation.
The fifth edition of El Gouna Film Festival will screen two Egyptian films 'Amira' and 'Back Home' on October 19.
The fifth edition is scheduled to take place from October 14-22 in the Red Sea resort town of El Gouna.
The Cairo Film Connection has received 110 submissions from across the Arab world and diaspora this year.
The award will honour the contributions the actor has made to Egyptian cinema across his two-decade career.
The programme has been curated by Youssef Shazli and Alia Ayman, co-founders of Egyptian arthouse cinema and distributor Zawya.
The film is a joint production between Egypt, Jordan and Palestine and is written by the trio Mohamed, Khaled, and Sherine Diab.
Arab Cinema Center has organised a panel discussion titled 'The New Finance of the Arab World' as part of its activities at the film festival.
Egyptian film critic Andrew Mohsen has been appointed as CIFF’s artistic director, working alongside festival president Mohamed Hefzy.
The programme is available to watch on the website of Warehouse421 until September 16.
The film festival is scheduled to take place from October 14 to 22, 2021, in the resort town of El Gouna.
The film received the Golden Dove Award for Best Film in the German competition in Dok Leipzig 2020 and three major awards at the 2020 Cairo International Film Festival.
The films include 'Between Two Seas' by Anas Tolba, 'Bomb' by Dima Hamdan.
The list of 101 Most Influential Personalities in the Arab film industry represented 22 countries, 13 Arab and nine non-Arab countries.
The film will be screened at the IFC Center in New York and Laemmle cinemas in Los Angeles.
To be eligible for submission, projects must be directed by filmmakers of Arab nationality or origin.
Films from six MENA countries including Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Lebanon will take part in the short film festival in North America.
The event will accept applications until August 31, 2021, on the official website for feature-length and short films.
The film recently ended a festival tour around the world, during which it picked up over 20 international awards.
The film festival will take place from June 11 to June 20, 2021.
The festival has tapped into an extensive network of international locations, from Sleimani to Casablanca and Cairo to Riyadh, to bring audiences a wide range of performances.
CIFF is not only the region’s oldest annual film festival, but also the only internationally accredited one in the Middle East and Africa.
The Arab Cinema Centre, a MAD Solutions initiative, has been responsible for bringing more Arab entities to international platforms like Berlinale.
The film is written, directed and edited by Hicham Amal and produced by Caravan Chergui Productions.
The film is directed by Palestine’s Nour Abed and Egyptian director and producer Mark Lotfy.
The deal will see many of the films Front Row acquired feature exclusively on beIN’s linear and digital platforms.
Hamlet from the Slums has received five different awards and grants.
Rotterdam Lab will be launched virtually this year as part of the Rotterdam Film Festival.
Produced by Ustura Films, in co-production with Paul Thiltges Distributions (Luxembourg) and Oktober Films (Iceland), Between Heaven and Earth will be distributed in the Arab world by MAD Solutions.
The dystopian fantasy film from Saudi Arabian writer-director Shahad Ameen continues to generate acclaim following a multi-award-winning festival season and cinema release
The masterclass will kick-start a three-day retrospective of Beshara's acclaimed films that will take place across Saudi Arabia in Dharan, Jeddah and Riyadh from December 14 to 16.
Directed by Hossam El Gohary, the series is co-written by Menna Ikram, Omar Khaled and Mohammad Hisham Obya.
The line-up included Tunisian-French documentary 'I Bite My Tongue' directed by Nina Khada and Venezuelan film 'The Red Vortex' directed by Lorena Colmenares.
The festival will present more than $250,000 worth of standard and monetary awards to 15 competing Arab films.
Directed by Saudi filmmaker Sara Mesfer, the film is scheduled to be screened at the festival which will kick off from December 2 to 10.
Directed by Mahmoud Kamel, and co-written by Ahmed Al-Dahan and Haitham Al-Dahan, 'Ammar' stars Sherif Salama and Eman El Assi.
The Cairo International Film Festival will be held from December 2 to 10 and the third edition of Cairo Industry Day will be held from December 4 to 7.
The line-up features titles that will mark their world and international premieres in Cairo.
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