News about audiovisual in Middle East region (Egypt, Palestinian Territories, Syria, Libanon)
Produced by the Saudi channel MBC, the series Muawiyah has sparked controversy in many countries, sometimes even before it is shown. With a budget of $100 million, this 30-episode series traces the career of Muawiyah ibn Abi Sufyan, the first caliph of the Umayyad dynasty, whose reign marked the division between Sunnis and Shiites. The …
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The Israeli-Palestinian documentary, No Other Land, won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Shown at several festivals, the film has been a great success. In 2024 it had its world premiere at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival and won both the Documentary Feature Award and the Panorama Audience Award for Best Documentary. Directed …
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The television channel Mediaset Italia has bought the broadcasting rights of two Turkish series: Woman and Forbidden Fruit. Both series are distributed by Calinos Entertainment, the leading exporter of Turkish series, programmes and films to the international market. Their sales manager, Goryana Vasileva, sees this collaboration with Mediaset Italia as “a new milestone in our …
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Roya TV, part of the Roya Media Group, published its schedule of programmes and series during Ramadan 2025. The channel is offering several cookery programmes, including Habibna El Lazam in which cook Abu Julia travels across the country discovering regional specialities. There are comedy series, with Roya Media highlighting its first Syrian production, Ya Ana …
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Named after the first French female film director and created in January 2018 by journalist Véronique Le Bris, the Alice Guy Award honours an international female director every year. This year the award was won by Lina Soualem for her film Bye Bye Tibériade. “I discovered Alice Guy,” the director says, “at the same time …
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The Palestinian Film Institute (PFI) published a call for projects, now closed, for those wishing to take part in the Cannes Film Festival’s film market, Cannes Docs. Before the market, leaders of the projects selected by an international jury will be given advice on strategy by the Institute’s industry consultants. Then, at Cannes, they will …
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After the success of its two previous seasons, the Egyptian series Kamel El-Adad returns during Ramadan 2025 on the Shahid platform. This comedy series, written by Youssr Taher and Rana Abu Al Rish, is about a reconstituted family: the personal problems facing Laila and Ahmed and the education of their respective children. This 3rd season, …
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