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Tallinn Black Nights film festival announces 2018 focus programme: centenarians
Driven by Estonia’s 100th anniversary celebrations, the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival will focus on 12 countries that are celebrating their centenary this year, offering a rich retrospective with films made between 1958-1977. Europe’s map was radically changed at the end of the 1st World War, dissolving empires and creating new small nation states. Although …
Tokyo International Film Festival: finding magic in first impressions
Excitement of watching film without knowing what to expect is magic of cinema
Sayed Ragab: representative of simple citizen in Egyptian cinema
Married twice, jailed twice, fame arrived after his 50th birthday
Cinémathèque Française to screen Youssef Chahine’s restored films
He has managed to make local films transcend national borders
40 films to premier for first time in CIFF
Festival added 2 new awards to its prizes, ‘audience award’, ‘best Arabic film’
Ukrainian filmmaker, activist Oleg Sentsov wins EU’s Sakharov prize
Ukrainian filmmaker and activist Oleg Sentsov has been awarded the European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. The prize is awarded to individuals who have made an exceptional contribution to the fight for human rights across the globe, drawing attention to human rights violations and supporting the laureates and their cause Sentsov is a …
13th Rome Film Fest concludes
The grand opening of the festival witnessed screening of Bad Times at the El Royale
Rome Film Fest returns with screening programme, discussion panels for inmates in Rebibbia prison
Guests include Italian filmmakers Gianfranco Cabiddu and Tommaso Cavallini, actress Teresa Saponangelo, and Nomadi band
Green Book opens the 40th edition Cairo International Film Festival
Winner of Toronto International Film Festival’s coveted People’s Choice Award to have its MENA premiere at CIFF
Cairo Film Festival celebrates Arab female directors
Exhibit will celebrate 8 Arab women who accomplished great achievements in film industry, prestigiously represented Arab Cinema at international festivals
Cairo Film Connection 2018 announces initial selection of film projects
CFC selected projects representing issues irking Arab world, women’s rights, living in war zones, meaning of home, belonging
Challenges, victories in film industry: #Metoo one-year-anniversary
Several women publicly accused American film producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual misconduct last October, sparking the #Metoo movement which shook Hollywood
Ana by Day awarded ‘best film’ at AFF
‘Damascus…Aleppo’, directed by Basil Al-Khatib, scoops awards for best actor, film
Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov ends 145-day hunger strike
Sentsov arrested on 10 May 2014 for “setting up terrorist cell”
Youssef Chahine celebrated at AFF
For over 50 years, Chahine fearlessly captured reality of Egyptian society through his work
Santa Fe Independent Film Festival announces 2018 Indigenous Film Programme
Festival’s 10th edition will run from 17 October to 21 October
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky star, Anna Mouglalis, receives award for distinguished work
French actress was honoured by AFF
Veteran Egyptian cinematographer Saied Shimi honoured at AFF
Shimi is one of Egypt’s most prominent cinematographers
Profile: Rashid Masharawi: The director who restored Palestinian peoples’ humanity
Cinema able to show world construct, identity of Palestine, better than any politician, conference, or talks
Duraid Lahham returns to acting following years of inactivity
Lahham’s last appearance on silver screen was in 2009
Egypt’s film community mourns prominent documentary filmmaker Atiyat El-Abnoudi
Filmmaker’s concern with subaltern women stems from intellectual preoccupation with inequality
The Alexandria Film Festival kicks off
Abaza wishes festival would become opportunity to promote tourism in Alexandria
15th edition of Seville Festival will take place on 9 November
Posters of Spain-based festival published under slogan ‘slip into European cinema
34th Alexandria Film Festival for Mediterranean Countries opens 3 October in Bibliotheca Alexandrina
AFF to honour Omar Khairat, Nadia Lotfi, Mohamed Fawzy among others
Oldenburg International Film Festival honours Keith Carradine
Carradine’s career is impressive with a list of the films that were made unforgettable with his presence
45th edition of Film Fest Gent announces Belgian slate including six world premieres
Artistic director Patrick Duynslaegher said that the slate is “indeed a strikingly Belgian edition, but at the same time this section also has an international allure
World premiere of Bad Times at El Royale to close official selection of San Sebastian Festival’s 66th edition
The world premiere of “Bad Times at the El Royale” to close the Official Selection of the San Sebastian Festival’s 66th edition. The second film directed by Drew Goddard The Cabin in the Wood stars Jeff Bridges, Chris Hemsworth, Jon Hamm, and Dakota Johnson, among others. The world premiere of Bad Times at the El …
Burt Reynolds, Hollywood’s moustachioed heartthrob, has died
US actor Burt Reynolds—who starred in several of most successful films of 1970s—has died at age of 82
Critics’ Week wraps up with Tunisian horror Dachra by Abdelhamid Bouchnak
General Delegate Giona A Nazzaro defined Dachra as “the revelation of a new horror talent
Venice International Film Critics’ Week reveals awards
Lissa Ammetsajjel (Still Recording) by Syrian directors Saeed Al Batal, Ghiath Ayoub wins Audience Award, Mario Serandrei