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“L’Évènement” (Happening), a film by French-Lebanese director Audrey Diwan, has won the Golden Lion, Venice Film Festival’s highest prize. Adapted from Annie Ernaux’ autobiographical novel published in 2000, it looks at the issue of illegal abortions in France in the 1960’s. Set in 1963, 12 years before the law forbidding abortions changed, the story follows …
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Anglo-Egyptian actor Khalid Abdalla will play Dodi Al Fayed in Season 5 of The Crown with Australian star Elizabeth Debicki playing Princess Diana. Launched in 2016, the British Netflix series “follows the political rivalries and romance of Queen Elizabeth II’s reign and the events which shaped the second half of the 20th century.” In 2021 …
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On September 27th, Favvs, Algeria ’s first virtual festival of videos to increase public awareness, was launched in El Kala National Park. Organized by the digital agency Elevatîn, the event hopes to bring amateur and professional content creators together to create projects of public interest: for this first year, the theme is eco-tourism. “Favvs is …
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The Digital Portal of the Annaba Short Film Festival in Algeria and the Mizda International Short Film Festival in Libya have signed a cooperation agreement to “support and promote the work of young talents making short films”. The agreement is to organise joint internships and workshops for film training and short film production techniques. More …
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Tunisian director Erige Sehiri’s “Under the Fig Trees” won no fewer than eight awards at the 78th Venice Film Festival’s Final Cut Workshop. Two of them were sponsored by partners of the Arab Cinema Centre, Mad Solutions and the ElGouna Film Festival, and these will help market, advertise and distribute the film. Since 2013 Final …
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“Al Rawabi School for Girls” is the latest Arabic-language series from streaming giant Netflix. The central character of the 6-episode young adult miniseries is Mariam, a teenage girl at a prestigious high school for girls in Amman. A victim of bullying at school, she decides to take revenge on the popular students who persecute her …
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This year’s URTI jury – made up of public television officials from Belgium, Cameroon, Gabon, Kosovo, Morocco, Portugal and Romania – awarded the 40th URTI International Grand Prix for Author Documentaries to Antonio José Almeida’s Portuguese television series “Mysteries of the Human Brain – Mechanism of the Emotions”. “Exponential growth is not limited to 21st …
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