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Israel / Idan Haguel’s new film has its world première in the Panorama section of the 72nd Berlin Film Festival

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Concerned Citizen, Idan Haguel’s second feature film, had its world premiere in the Panorama section of this year’s Berlinale. After his first film, Inertia (2017), also shown at the Berlin Film Festival, Idan Haguel returns with this black comedy. Idan Haguel is an Israeli director, journalist and screenwriter. With Concerned Citizen, he takes us into …

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Italy / Start of the 3rd “Classici Fuori Mostra”

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The Venice Film Festival is organizing the 3rd “Classici fuori Mostra” (Permanent Festival of Restored Films). 14 international classic films, each carefully restored by the world’s finest film institutions, will be screened every Thursday from February 10th to May 26th 2022 at Venice’s Cinema Rossini. This year’s festival is organized in partnership with the City …

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TUNISIA / “Communion” in official competition at the first Red Sea International Film Festival

Communion

Tunisian director Neijb Belkadhi’s “Communion” has been selected for the official competition of the first Red Sea International Film Festival. The event will take place in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia from December 6th to 15th. “Communion” takes us back to March 2020 as the pandemic is beginning to spread: “A couple, a cat, a virus. During …

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ARAB WORLD / Ms Marvel is the first Islamic super-hero of the American series

Ms Marvel

“Ms Marvel”, a new mini-series, showcases the first Islamic character of the Marvel comic books. It is the 18th television series in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The six-episode first season is slated to air on Disney + sometime in the summer of 2022. Kamala Khan, the central character, is a teenage Pakistani-American girl living in …

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ALGERIA / The Franco-Algerian Nina Khada wins the Poulain d’Argent for Short Documentaries at Fespaco

Je me suis mordue la langue

French-Algerian director Nina Khada ’s new film “Je me suis mordue la langue” (I bit my tongue) won the Silver Poulain for Short Documentary at the 27th Pan-African Film and Television Festival (Fespaco) in Ouagadougou. “I bit my tongue”, a quest for identity In this 25-minute first-person documentary the film-maker tries to rediscover the language …

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ISRAEL / The Israeli government wants to make the country more attractive for making films

Avigdor Lieberman

Israeli Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman announced a budget of €12 million to make his country more attractive for film-making. For international television and film productions this sum should reduce the cost of hiring film crews by 25%. The offer is valid for two years. There is only one condition: the production must employ a local …

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EGYPT / Serbian director Emir Kusturica chair of the jury of the Cairo International Film Festival

Emir Kusturica

Serbian director Emir Kusturica is the chair of the jury of the 43rd Cairo International Film Festival running from November 26th to December 5th. The jury will decide the winners among the 13 films entered in the International Competition, which includes 8 European productions or co-productions. In all 98 films from 63 countries will be …

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