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JORDAN / “All That’s Left of You” chosen for the Oscars

The Royal Film Commission (RFC) has announced that All That’s Left of You, by Jordanian-Palestinian director Cherien Dabis, will be Jordan’s submission for the 2026 Oscars. It was selected from a call for entries launched by the RFC last June, with the final choice made by an independent committee of six members working in the …

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PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES / The Nasser brothers’ Once upon a Time in Gaza wins award at Cannes

Once upon a time in Gaza

Palestinian directors Arab and Tarzan Nasser won the Best Director Award in the Un Certain Regard category for their film Once Upon a Time in Gaza. A dark comedy with a sharp social commentary, Once Upon a Time in Gaza is about a young student, Yahya, who forms an unlikely friendship with an outgoing but …

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ISRAEL – PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES / No Other Land wins the Oscar for Best Documentary

No Other Land

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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GREECE / Winners of the 25th TIDF

The 27th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival (TIDF) closed on March 16th. Before the awards ceremony, Deputy Culture Minister Iason Fotilas praised the festival’s work and the importance of documentaries: “Documentaries don’t just depict images,” he said, “they guide us to see beyond them. They allow us to perceive the world more consciously, to listen to …

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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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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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