News about audiovisual in Middle East region (Egypt, Palestinian Territories, Syria, Libanon)
The first French Festival of Lebanese Film (FFLF) will take place in Paris from October 7th to 11th. The Lincoln Cinema will host the event, if sanitary conditions permit. For this first year the festival’s sponsor is Franco-Lebanese film-maker, Philippe Aractingi. The opening night will be held at the Institut du Monde Arabe with many …
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The Eswed Fateh series was initially scheduled to air during Ramadan, but because of the Covid outbreak filming was halted before the final scenes were finished. Production was put on hold until early September, when the remaining sequences were shot in the Lebanon. The creators of the series have said Eswed Fateh will be available …
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War, its traumatic, devastating and silent effect is at the centre of Notturno. Gianfranco Rosi filmed in close-up life during the war in Syria. His new film took three years of reflecting and shooting, travelling into Syria, Iraq, Kurdistan and the Lebanon to document war and terrorism. Trailer But, Gianfranco Rosi does not film the …
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Franco-Senegalese scriptwriter and director Maïmouna Doucouré has completed her first feature film, Mignonnes (Cuties). 11-year-old Amy comes across a group of adult-style twerking dancers nicknamed “Cuties”. Intrigued, Amy learns to dance like them, wanting to join their clique and escape her family problems. Trailer The film, which won awards at Sundance and Berlin, was released …
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Following the success of Fauda, Israeli screenwriter Moshe Zonder returns with a new series: Tehran. Zonder and screenwriter Omri Shenhar have created an Israeli spy of Iranian origin working for Mossad. She is sent to Tehran to deactivate a nuclear reactor. But the mission goes wrong and the spy finds herself stranded in Iran – …
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The Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival, Docaviv, has partnered with DocuShuk, an internet marketing and streaming service which will make this year’s Festival programme accessible online. The day after their screening, 21 Israeli premieres were available internationally. The platform, which operates year-round, allows industry professionals to keep abreast of the latest releases of Israeli …
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The 3rd Cyprus Archaeological, Ethnographic and Historical Documentary Film Festival (AEI) took place from September 10th to 13th. This cultural event is organized by A.E.I. Audiovisual Film Forum in collaboration with the Municipality of Aglantzia, the Department of Forests and Tetraktys Films. This year the festival is supported by many organisations, both national (the Cultural …
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