‘Goodbye Julia’ and ‘Four Daughters’ win top prizes at Critics Awards for Arab Films
The awards ceremony is organised by the Arab Cinema Centre, with winners chosen by 225 critics from over 70 countries.
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The awards ceremony is organised by the Arab Cinema Centre, with winners chosen by 225 critics from over 70 countries.
The ACC's programme for this year will include four distinct panel sessions, alongside the traditional beach-side ceremony for the Critics Awards for Arab Films.
Al-Bakri started out at Jordanian Royal Film Commission in 2007 as a capacity-building manager and rapidly rose to the role of managing director in 2009.
As part of Venice Production Bridge, ACC will host panel discussions and meetings featuring film professionals from around the Arab world.
This year’s edition of the awards focused on Arab-language films that premiered on the festival circuit outside of the Arab world in 2022.
The Arab Cinema Magazine is available on the Cannes' Marche du Film website.
The winners will be announced during the upcoming edition of Cannes Film Festival.
The ACC will also be launching the 18th issue of its Arab Cinema Magazine during the activities of the Berlinale.
A total of $830,000 in cash prizes and $126,000 in-kind prizes were awarded to Saudi, Arab and African projects in the development and work-in-progress stages.
Suzannah Mirghani’s 'Cotton Queen' and Mahdi El-Tayeb’s 'Lamp in the Dark' each took home the biggest prize from MAD Solutions which offers a minimum of $50,000 for distribution in the Arab world.
The winner will be announced during the Cairo International Film Festival.
The jurors will evaluate the nominated films using the Festival Scope digital platform, which is a partner of the ACC.
Several films by Arab filmmakers will be screened at the festival of which eight are competing for various awards as well.
Keblawi is also a founder of Arab Cinema in Sweden, a company that distributes Arab films in Sweden.
ACC and MAD Solutions Co-Founder Alaa Karkouti will also moderate a panel discussion on February 16.
The four-day event presented 23 projects in development, including 12 Red Sea Lodge projects, 11 Red Sea Souk projects, and five films in post-production.
The film is also competing at the International Competition of Cairo International Film Festival.
This year’s jury of the Arab Critics’ Awards for European Films brings together 71 film critics from 15 Arab nations.
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.
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.
The Cairo Film Connection has received 110 submissions from across the Arab world and diaspora this year.
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.
The list of 101 Most Influential Personalities in the Arab film industry represented 22 countries, 13 Arab and nine non-Arab countries.
The event, in its fifth year, celebrated the best Arab films that have come out of the region in the past year.
The winners will be announced during the upcoming edition of the Cannes Film Festival.
The Arab Cinema Centre, a MAD Solutions initiative, has been responsible for bringing more Arab entities to international platforms like Berlinale.
Eligible producers from the Arab world can send their submissions for the five-day training workshop till November 10.
This is the first time in the history of Arab cinema, that 141 prominent Arab and international film critics from 57 countries have come together to be part of a jury committee.
A partnership between Arab Cinema Center and Telescope Film will keep US residents informed on which Arab films are running on streaming services in the country.
The ACC Talks, organised by Arab Cinema Center, at the Cannes Virtual Market will be shown on MAD Solutions’ official YouTube channel with English and Arabic subtitles.
Amjad Abu Alala’s debut feature film, 'You Will Die at Twenty', has been recently nominated for two awards, Best Feature and Best Screenplay, at The Critics’ Awards for Arab Films.
This year, the Arab Cinema Center has appointed American film critic Deborah Young as the Manager of the Critics' Awards for Arab Films.
The first episode is scheduled to stream on May 7 at 5:00 pm (UAE) and will be available in Arabic or English subtitles.
The award, which will be presented by The Hollywood Reporter, recognises Latiri’s contribution to developing Tunisia’s film industry.
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