Category: MIDDLE EAST

News about audiovisual in Middle East region (Egypt, Palestinian Territories, Syria, Libanon)

JORDAN / Roya TV presents its Ramadan programmes

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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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FRANCE / Lina Soualem, director of Bye Bye Tibériade wins the Alice Guy Award

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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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PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES / The Palestine Film Institute’s call for projects for the Cannes Film Market

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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EGYPT / “Kamel El-Adad” returns during Ramadan for a 3rd season

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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FRANCE / The 11th Toulouse Festival of Palestinian Film

From March 3rd to 11th the Toulouse Festival of Palestinian Film will be back for 9 days of screenings about Palestine There will be a lot of films on offer. Mahdi Fleifel’s Vers un pays inconnu, having won an award recently at Premiers Plans, will open the festival. Also on the programme is From Ground …

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GREECE / TIDF announces the projects chosen for the Pitching Forum

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Agora, the industry section of the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival (TIDF), has named the 14 projects which will take part in the Pitching Forum, to be held from March 7th to 15th. Created in 1999, Agora is a major event for producing and financing international documentary projects from Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East. …

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EGYPT / The platform WATCH IT announces its programmes for Ramadan

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Egyptian video-on-demand platform WATCH IT has announced the 14 new shows which will be broadcast during this year’s Ramadan. Among the programmes is a drama series directed by Mahmoud Abdel Tawab, El Sharnaka, and a comedy series Okbal Andkom, created by Hassan El Raddad and Amy Samir Ghanem. In addition to these two, other titles …

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