Category: CINEMA

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MOROCCO / 2020 sees sharp drop in foreign film productions

CCM

The kingdom’s film industry saw a steep decline in the number of foreign productions in 2020. The Centre Cinématographique Marocain (CCM) annual report reveals that last year only 8 foreign feature films and 9 foreign TV series were filmed in Morocco. Compared to 2019 that represents 77.5% less income from feature film productions and 74.2% less from …

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TUNISIA EGYPT / Tunisia is guest of honour at the first Alexandria Francophone Film Festival

FAFF

Tunisia is the guest of honour at the first Alexandria Francophone Film Festival (FAFF), organized from June 18th to 23rd. The Festival will be held in the famous “Bibliotheca Alexandrina” in partnership with the French Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), the Fondation des Arts de la Culture et des médias and the Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image (CNCI). The …

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EGYPT / “The Life and Times of Omar Sharif”, a documentary on the life of the Egyptian icon

Omar Sharif

The documentary “The Life and Times of Omar Sharif” traces the life of actor Omar Sharif, a true cinema icon in Egypt and “one of the few Arab actors to have been successful in Hollywood”. Presented at the Copenhagen DOX: CPH Festival, the documentary traces how President Nasser’s policies in the 1950’s shaped Sharif’s career. …

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ITALY / Candidate call for the Summer School in Cinema, Human Rights and Advocacy

Global Campus of Human Rights

The 16th Summer School in Cinema, Human Rights and Advocacy is scheduled for August 30th to September 8th 2021. The Global Campus for Human Rights launched the programme in 2005; this year’s theme is “delivering social change to children and young people” within the broader framework of Human Rights protection and promotion. The Summer School in Cinema Human Rights …

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EGYPT / The return of the “butterfly” Sherihan, former star of an Egyptian Ramadan series

Sherihan

20 years after she left the small screen, Egyptian actress Sherihan (real name Sherihan Ahmed Abdelfattah al-Chalqati) made a comeback during Ramadan 2021. In a 4-minute commercial for Vodafone Egypt, the star repeats the choreography and music from an emblematic series “Fawazeer Ramadane” (The Riddles of Ramadan), first broadcast in the 1980’s during the iftar of Ramadan. …

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SYRIA / “Children of the Enemy”, the story of a man searching for his grandchildren, born of ISIS fighters

Les Enfants de l'Ennemi

First shown at the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival CPH: DOX, “Children of the Enemy” follows Patricio Galvez, a 50-year-old Swedish-Chilean searching for his family in the middle of ISIS territory. His daughter Amanda’s story is notorious in Sweden: converted to radical Islam, married to a jihadist, she flew with their 4 children to fight …

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WORLD / 40th International URTI Grand Prix for Author’s Documentary

Grand Prix International du Documentaire d'Auteur URTI

Registration for the 2021 International URTI Grand Prix for Author’s Documentary is officially open. The competition is for public and private television companies, as well as associations and institutions working in broadcasting. Each organisation can register two documentaries free of charge; international television channels then select which films will enter the competition. The international jury …

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