The Doha Film Institute's Qumra Arab film industry incubator - which has been scrapped as a physical event and moved online ...
CAIRO – A Lebanese father tells his teenage daughter she is free to choose whether to have sex with her boyfriend despite his reservations. An Egyptian wife discreetly slips off her black, lacy ...
Lebanese director Sarah Francis brought her quietly devastating marital drama “Dead Dog” to the Cairo Film Festival’s Horizons of Arab Cinema Competition, where the film won the Saad Eldin Wahba Award ...
Filmmaker and journalist Dorothée-Myriam Kellou has announced the creation of a new collective, Rawiyat – Sisters in Film, at the El Gouna Film Festival. Speaking on the “Women’s Empowerment Through ...
GLENDALE, Calif. (KABC) -- In the world of film festivals, we've all heard of Sundance, Cannes and Telluride. But there is a relatively new festival starting to make an impact. And it's showing movies ...
Director Ali Mostafa and the producers, including "Arbitrage's" Mohammed Al Turki, hope it will succeed "in the Arab world and beyond." By Georg Szalai Global Business Editor CANNES – A group of ...
More than 40,000 Iraqi civilians have died since the start of the Iraq war. The exact number is hard to ascertain ("We don't do body counts," the former U.S. commander in the country, Gen. Tommy ...
With Saudi film production skyrocketing, a significant presence in Cannes and surprise North African successes, insiders say Arab cinema is entering a vibrant new era: "It’s an interesting time." By ...
It isn’t getting any easier for producers of quality Arab movies to find financing, especially within their region where the only titles that consistently work at the box office are commercial ...