‘The Arab’ Director on Moving From Docs to Fiction for the Story of an Unnamed Figure in Albert Camus’ ‘The Stranger’: Rotterdam

Algerian history, colonialism and an Oedipal relationship play key roles in Malek Bensmaïl's fiction debut with Palestinian ...
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Cairo Award Winner Mohanad Yaqubi on Lebanese Filmmaker Jocelyne Saab: ‘It’s as If She’s Making the Film and I’m the Instrument Making This Happen’

For this project he is working with researcher Mathilde Rouxel, who was Saab’s assistant during the last decade of her life. How did this project come about? I obtained access to 115 reels directed by ...
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Lebanese Star Fouad Yammine’s Makes Feature Directorial Debut ‘Peanuts’ For Front Row & Abajour

Dubai-based Front Row Filmed Entertainment and Beirut-based Abajour Productions have partnered on Lebanese actor, writer, and comedian Fouad Yammine’s feature directorial debut Peanuts (Batata Chips ...
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Arab female directors drive change at the Red Sea Film Festival in Jeddah

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 ...
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At Cairo Film Festival, Programmers Track a New Wave of Arab Filmmakers

At the 46th edition of the Cairo Intl. Film Festival, programmers from some of the world’s leading festivals are finding something they rarely encounter elsewhere on the circuit: a festival where the ...
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Arab female directors drive change at the Red Sea Film Festival in Jeddah

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Arab female film directors have helped change the landscape of Arab cinema in recent years, presenting stories that haven't been told before and claiming space in an ...