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Swiss director Julia Bünter has produced her first feature, Fiancées. Her previous credits include Jour J (2014), selected for various festivals (in particular the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival) and À la maison (2015). Filmed in Egypt, Fiancées follows three young women as they head towards marriage. Bünter’s aim was to make a film portrait …
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The ZoomInWomen festival is part of a collaboration between Zatek (the Cairo-based Digital Museum of Women, an on-line system to help women’s emancipation) and the British Embassy, which in 2016 created Inspire Egypt, an event for Egyptians wanting to change their society’s attitudes to women. ZoomInWomen is a travelling event, using short films to show …
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According to an article in the newspaper Egyptian Independent, taken up by the website News Monger, a member of the Egyptian parliament has proposed creating a new public television channel. At a meeting on Sunday, Soad Elmasry put forward the idea of a channel dedicated to promoting all kinds of tourism in Egypt. The politician …
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In his latest film, Dolce Fine Giornata, Polish director and screenwriter Jacek Borcuch tackles many themes linked to current issues: the influence of the refugee crisis, the family and the limits of freedom. He brings these to life through the story of a poetess and grandmother, Maria Linde. She lives in the idyllic Tuscan countryside, …
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PriMed travels! A stopover in Egypt was the first stage of the 2019 Mediterranean Young People’s Award. PriMed went to Cairo, Alexandria and Port Said where 400 young people watched three selected films, discussed them, wrote their comments about them and finally voted for the one they thought best. An exercise designed to make them …
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The third El Gouna Film Festival ran from September 19th to 27th. Aiming to discover new international artistic voices, the GFF focusses particularly on encouraging film-making in the Arab world, and opening up inter-cultural ideas in the region. Three Jordanian films were shown in competition this year: – the documentary feature Tiny Souls by Dina …
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The first event for this year’s PriMed took place in Egypt, with the CMCA meeting a total of 400 young people in Cairo, Alexandria and Port Said to discuss how they see their place in the Mediterranean world. To help the students sharpen their critical sense and express their opinions, the meetings were guided and …
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