News about audiovisual in Egypt
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The 7th El Gouna Film Festival was held from October 24th to November 1st. This year the event, which showcases new voices in world cinema, offered 83 films from 48 countries divided into 5 categories – including the Fiction Feature Film Competition and the Documentary Film Competition. On the fiction side, the films included Algiers …
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New Interactive Studio (NiS), an Egyptian sound post-production company, and Dubai-based distributor MAGmedia International have formed a partnership to increase the distribution of programmes dubbed into Arabic across Europe and the rest of the world. Commenting on the collaboration, Nabeel AlDakkak, CEO of NiS, said: “We are proud to have MAGmedia as a strategic partner. …
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Goethe Film Week, organized by the Goethe Institutes in Alexandria and Cairo, screened an Egyptian documentary Memoirs of M.A Draz by Maggie Morgan. Considered by Egyptian critic Mahmoud Abd El Shakour “one of the best films of the year,” the documentary is about an Azharite scholar, Mohamed Abdallah Draz, seen through letters, diaries, and photographs …
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Premiered on September 10th at Casablanca’s Megarama cinema, Jihane Bahar’s feature Triple A is now on release across Morocco. Written by Ms. Bahar and Nadia Kamali Marwazi, it tells three love stories of marginalized protagonists whose destinies cross in an unexpected way. Between drama and black comedy, the film addresses many subjects such as delinquency, …
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The Fameck Arab Film Festival is back – and its 35th year is dedicated to Jordan. The event will be held in Fameck and Val de Fensch in northern France from October 3rd to 13th. Each year the festival screens around forty films reflecting the diversity and wealth of current Arab cinema. This year’s guest …
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Inshallah a Boy, a film by Amjad Al-Rasheed (Jordan), and Voy! Voy! Voy! by Omar Hilal (Egypt) both won awards at the Septimius Awards ceremony. Held every year in Amsterdam, this international ceremony showcases films and series by new talents. More than thirty awards are given to directors, actors and film technicians. Al-Rasheed’s Inshallah a …
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As part of the 17th Split Mediterranean Film Festival (June 13th – 22nd), the Egyptian Voy! Voy!Voy! won the Best Feature Film Award and the Jury Award. Directed and written by Omar Hilal, the film is about a security guard desperate to leave Egypt. Discovering blind football, he fakes blindness so he can get on …
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