News about audiovisual in Middle East region (Egypt, Palestinian Territories, Syria, Libanon)
At the end of 2016 Netflix bought the broadcasting rights of the first two seasons of the series Fauda. At the beginning of June, the American platform picked up the rights for the third season, broadcast at the end of 2019. Fauda (“chaos” in Arabic) is about a special forces unit of the Israel Defence …
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Eight Arab films have been selected by one of the United States’ largest short film festivals, the Palm Springs International ShortFest. It will take place online from June 16th to 22nd and show more than 300 films. Henet Ward by Egyptian director Morad Mostafa is nominated in the Best Live-Action Short category. The film follows …
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Limassol’s Rialto cinema opens its summer season with a series of outdoor screenings. Its managers have decided to create a drive-in from June 17th until the end of July. The programming is made up of eight very different films. All will be screened in their original language with subtitles in Greek and English. Several Mediterranean …
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Dirilis Ertugrul is a Turkish television series about Ertugrul Gazi, a Turkish chieftain who laid the foundations for the creation of the Ottoman Empire. Produced by Mehmet Bozdag, the first episode was broadcast back in 2014. Over 5 years 150 episodes have been broadcast on TRT1, the leading Turkish public television channel. The series is …
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Egyptian screenwriter Amr Samir Atif has completed his new television series, El-Nehaya (The End). Directed by Yasser Samy, the series began broadcasting in Egypt during the first days of Ramadan – a popular period for showing series, with several new ones emerging every year. They often generate a lot of comments – this year though …
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The Cyprus Industry Days Dot.on.the.map were held online between April 9th and 11th, exactly as the organisers of the International Festival of Cyprus Film Days had announced. During the three days there were pitching sessions with over 40 professionals from 17 countries listening as the directors presented their projects. The award for Best Project went …
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Zuhal is the first feature by Turkish film-maker Nazlı Elif Durlu. Having made three short films, Trust Me (2009), Later (2012) and The Horse and the Nightingale (2013), this is her first longer project. Zuhal is about a lawyer of the same name living alone in Istanbul. Although her life is well ordered, she is …
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