News about audiovisual in Middle East region (Egypt, Palestinian Territories, Syria, Libanon)
Franco-Moroccan director Jérôme Cohen-Olivar has announced he has started casting his next film, Autisto. This is the first co-production between Morocco and Israel, with the United States also participating. The film-maker is particularly happy with this partnership, “having always,” he says, “admired Israeli cinema, its depth, its sensitivity, its subjects.” Autisto is about an Israeli …
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An Egyptian film, Hamlet from the Slums directed by Ahmed Fawzi Saleh, has been selected for the Atelier du Festival de Cannes. This year 15 projects from 15 countries are taking part in this programme. It was created in 2005 to “encourage creative cinema and help a new generation of international film-makers emerge.” Over 18 …
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On the first day of Ramadan the Jordanian company Roya Media Group (RMG) launched a new channel: Roya PLUS. Developed with the Arab Satellite Communications Organization, Roya PLUS is available through their Arabsat service. RMG’s Managing Director, Fares Sayegh, is proud of this collaboration, as the company’s press release makes clear: “Arabsat has proved its …
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The Thessaloniki Documentary Festival was held from March 10th to 20th. Shown in competition with 12 other selected features, The Devil’s Driver won the Special Jury award. The jury – Angeleki Aristomenopoulou, Michael Graversen and Laurien ten Houten – said the “film shines a light on burning issues and gives a voice to a group …
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The Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism has confirmed its support for the writing and production of short and animated films. 65 projects have already benefited from this fund, estimated at 1.8 million Turkish lira ($123,000). The list of projects is available here. A committee of 8 ministerial staffers and film professionals selected the projects …
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With the help of his NGO Tiro for Arts, Lebanese actor/director Kassem Istanbouli is restoring Tripoli’s Empire Cinema. Dating from the 1940’s the Empire is the last cinema still standing in Tell Square – where there used to be five. It has been closed since 1988. Even though Tripoli is the Lebanon’s second largest city …
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Soufiane El Khalidy heads the cast of a new detective series, The Octet, directed by Ahmed Medhat and produced by the Saudi group MBC. It centres on an Interpol agent, Adham, investigating the murder of his girlfriend and her sister at a party in Cairo. Soufiane El Khalidy stars alongside two other Egyptian actors Asser …
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