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The Cyprus Film Days International Festival has announced the films chosen for its 23rd edition, which will be held from April 4th to 12th. Launched in 2001, the festival takes place annually in the island’s two main cities: Limassol and Nicosia. It is organized by the Deputy Ministry of Culture’s Department of Contemporary Culture and …
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Produced by the Saudi channel MBC, the series Muawiyah has sparked controversy in many countries, sometimes even before it is shown. With a budget of $100 million, this 30-episode series traces the career of Muawiyah ibn Abi Sufyan, the first caliph of the Umayyad dynasty, whose reign marked the division between Sunnis and Shiites. The …
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After the success of its two previous seasons, the Egyptian series Kamel El-Adad returns during Ramadan 2025 on the Shahid platform. This comedy series, written by Youssr Taher and Rana Abu Al Rish, is about a reconstituted family: the personal problems facing Laila and Ahmed and the education of their respective children. This 3rd season, …
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Egyptian video-on-demand platform WATCH IT has announced the 14 new shows which will be broadcast during this year’s Ramadan. Among the programmes is a drama series directed by Mahmoud Abdel Tawab, El Sharnaka, and a comedy series Okbal Andkom, created by Hassan El Raddad and Amy Samir Ghanem. In addition to these two, other titles …
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MAD Solutions’ film sales division, MAD World, has secured the international rights to Mohamed Rashad’s Egyptian thriller,The Settlement. The Settlement follows two brothers – troublemaker Hossam, 23, and his brother Maro, 12 – living in a marginalized community in Alexandria. When their father is killed in an accident at work, the local factory offers them …
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The 14th Luxor African Film Festival took place from January 9th to 14th. This year 11 feature films were shown in competition. The jury – screenwriter Tamer Habib (Egypt), director Moussa Sène Absa (Senegal), director Ibrahim Shaddad (Sudan), director Sofia Djama (Algeria) and actress Akosua Busia (Ghana) – awarded the Special Jury Award to Abdenour …
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Hicham El Jebbari’s Ana Machi Ana is the first Moroccan feature to be dubbed into Egyptian Arabic and distributed in Egyptian cinemas. Interviewed by the online magazine 360, the director said he is: “very proud of this initiative, a first for a Moroccan film. By dubbing Ana Machi Ana into Egyptian Arabic we wanted to …
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