News about audiovisual in Middle East region (Egypt, Palestinian Territories, Syria, Libanon)
The Israeli news channel i24news recently opened a permanent office in Dubai’s Media City (UAE), becoming the first Israeli channel to be broadcast in the country. The move is part of the 2020 Abraham Accords, two normalization agreements signed by the two countries, and follows the inauguration of the first Israeli embassy in the Persian …
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“Do You Love Me” wins the Sundance Documentary Fund to finance its production. In 2019 the film received the Robert Bosch Stiftung Film Award as well as development funding from the IDFA Bertha Fund and the Doha Film Institute. The feature film is a “kind of visual patchwork” made up of archives, both of the …
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Organized by the Beirut Film Society, the 3rd “Girls for Change” has now closed. The programme is part of “Li Beirut” (For Beirut), an international initiative launched by UNESCO in the aftermath of the explosions in the capital’s port on August 27th 2020. The 3-month training programme has enabled 100 young girls from Beirut’s battered suburbs to …
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In 90 seconds, young Palestinian director Omar Rammal recounts 73 years of Israeli occupation and eviction of Palestinian families. 90 seconds of distress, during which a Palestinian family’s candid testimonies, with each member showing us their favourite place in their home, are set against the violence of Israeli settlers who, at the same time, are …
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The International Oriental Film Festival of Geneva (Fifog) honours Lebanon for its 16th edition, which runs from June 21st to 27th. Lebanese writer, journalist and activist Joumana Haddad will be honorary president. “Hope … a little, a lot, passionately” The central theme of this year’s rich programme is hope. There are two competitions, one for features, another …
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Organized and founded in 2012 by the Arab British Centre, SAFAR Film Festival is the only UK film festival dedicated to the Arab world. This year’s hybrid edition, running from July 11th to 17th, is organized around the theme of “generational encounters in Arab cinema”, through contemporary and classic films about the emerging generation, family disparities …
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MAD Solutions, the independent Cairo-based pan-Arab studio, has announced it has acquired 50 film projects in various stages of production from 13 countries across the Arab world: Palestine, Egypt, Lebanon, Algeria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Iraq, Kuwait, Morocco, Tunisia, Qatar and Syria. They include “The Legend of Zeinab and Noah”, first feature by Egyptian director …
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