Saudi Film Commission to participate in 81st Venice Film Festival
The Commission’s participation in the festival includes organising a roundtable event titled 'Challenges Facing Modern and Emerging Archives in Particular.'
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The Commission’s participation in the festival includes organising a roundtable event titled 'Challenges Facing Modern and Emerging Archives in Particular.'
The hotel invites guests to a day of complimentary interactive workshops, independent film screenings, and insightful panel discussions celebrating the art of cinema.
The film festival will open with 'The Last Queen', with the screening held at Ciné Lumiere and followed by a Q&A with co-director Damien Onouri.
The festival has brought together emerging and established artists and filmmakers to reflect their visions of ‘Stories at One with Nature.’
Additionally, Shams will be conducting workshops under its 'Mini Hekaya' initiative to teach children and youth about scriptwriting and its role in artistic and cinematic success.
Participation is open until September 23, with the three best films receiving cash rewards.
The event will close with Egyptian film 'Hamel al-Lakab'.
For the first time, the festival has also shortlisted six Arab films screened in Egyptian theatres to compete for a new award.
Saudi Arabia is teeming with film festivals, live performances, concerts, and film production, among other things.
The most significant VR works produced in 2021 will be presented in competition for the Golden Yusr Immersive Award, which includes a $10,000 prize.
The film is set to the background of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and marks the first Palestinian film by an Egyptian director.
The foundation has announced three grantees for its 2021 Short Film Production Grants: Maaria Sayed, Mariam Al Serkal, and Randa Maroufi.
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.
The annual event is a key platform for Arab Cinema that continues to attract submissions from international filmmaking talent.
Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof’s There Is No Evil, co-produced by Kaveh Farnam, is nominated under the Best Feature Film category.
The aim is to support Indian female filmmakers in redefining uncaptured cinema to the world.
Films from six MENA countries including Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Lebanon will take part in the short film festival in North America.
Filmmakers are invited to submit their films before May 10, 2021, and regardless of artistic approach, format, or themes, all films will be accepted for consideration.
Effective December 2020, Karin Schyle will be the Executive Director and Pascale Fakhry will lead the festival as Artistic Director.
Following the new Covid-19 restrictions, the festival programme is being streamed on MYmovies.it until November 22.
Festival venues include the Foundation’s open-air Mirage City Cinema, the iconic Flying Saucer and the big screens in Cinemacity IMAX, Zero 6 Mall.
The third edition of the annual festival from Sharjah Art Foundation runs from November 14 to 21, 2020 in select Sharjah cinemas and online.
For its fourth edition, CineGouna SpringBoard received 99 submissions (65 projects in development and 34 films in post-production) from all parts of the Arab world.
Alberto Barbera has been reappointed to his role as Director of the cinema department for the next four years.
The agreement was announced during a panel discussion and a networking event on the sidelines of El Gouna Film Festival to confirm their 2021-2022 commitment for the cause.
The third edition of Sharjah Film Platform 3 (SFP3) will feature over 60 short and feature-length films, a public programme of talks and workshops, the SFP Industry Hub and awards.
Directed by Sandro Canaan, the 11-minute film is in Arabic language and stars Tarek Abd El Aziz, Dora Youssef, and Mohiy Dorgham.
Award-winners of the competition screenings, which began on October 9 will be announced during a ceremony at Salon İKSV on October 20.
Last year, the cash prize was given to 'Severed Head' by director Lotfi Achour at the El Gouna Film Festival.
The Embassy will also offer a residency award for two Egyptian filmmakers that includes private and curated virtual sessions with film experts in Los Angeles.
Alloush previously served as a jury member in several international film festivals, including the Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF).
The special edition will host an exclusive selection of films which aroused positive responses at their premieres at Sundance, Berlin, or Venice, or that bear the Cannes Label.
The film festival will showcase the diverse cinematic talent of Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Caucasus, and Central Asia.
The festival is set to take place in the Red Sea town of El Gouna from October 23 to 31, 2020.
The event, organised in collaboration with the Cannes City Council, will be held at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès from October 27 to 29.
The jury, composed of Nadia Turincev, Meinolf Zurhorst and Yousry Nasrallah, selected and announced the winners.
The films submitted must be produced between January 2019 and the date of the inauguration of the festival and must be received by the selection committee before November 1.
The 95-minute documentary, which was released last year, will be showcased in Arabic with English subtitles on October 11.
The film is the first Egyptian feature-length narrative confirmed for the 2020 edition of the festival.
These films are 'Blue Elephant: Dark Whispers' by Marwan Hamed, 'Between Two Seas' by Anas Tolba and 'Mafak' by Bassam Jarbawi.
The film had its world premiere at the 17th Giornate degli Autori (Venice Days), a sidebar of the Venice Film Festival.
'Gaza Mon Amour' has also been selected to screen at the Toronto International Film Festival, which begins today and will go on till September 20.
Malek will attend the world premiere with the film’s full cast which will have two screenings on September 4.
The film festival recently confirmed that it will hold its 42nd edition from November 19 to 28, 2020.
The six-day festival, which aims to celebrate Saudi films and filmmakers, will include screenings, discussion panels, symposia and awards.
The film, which is vying at the Orizzonti competition, will be screened on three days from September 3 to 5.
The short film competition will maintain its usual format of physical attendance, with screenings from September 21-23.
Around 187 films from 56 countries were screened, of which 64 had their world premieres and eight had international premieres.
All films will be screened online and free of charge throughout the festival.
The inaugural edition is due to take place from August 23 to 31 in the Jordanian capital, Amman.
The film festival, which is scheduled to take place from September 10 to 20, comprises a lineup of 50 new feature films, five programmes of short films, and Q&As with ...
The festival will now run from October 23 to 31 in the Egyptian resort town of El Gouna.
From June 16-22, a number of the official selection films will be available to screen for free online.
Each of the selected works will have only one exclusive screening, which will take place at all participating theatres at the same time.
The festival, which is free to attend, will screen films that explore environmental issues, conduct talks with environmental activists, workshops and events focussed on waste management.
Produced and funded by the Red Sea International Film Festival, the anthology film furthers the Festival’s commitment to daring new work by Saudi directors.
In its second iteration, the film festival screened more than 50 short and feature films by local, regional and international filmmakers in the narrative, documentary and experimental categories.
The Red Sea Film Festival Foundation has restored nine key works of Egyptian neorealist director Khairy Bishara. The films will premiere as part of a full retrospective of his work ...
Apart from the screening of various films, the film festival will bring together filmmakers, artists and the industry professionals to explore the approaches to filmmaking.
Teams from 10 projects in development and six films in post-production enjoyed mentoring sessions from international industry professionals at the Atlas Workshops 2019 during the Marrakech film festival.
