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Syria / Sabaya wins the top award at ZagrebDox

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The jury of the 18th ZagrebDox International Documentary Film Festival (see our article on this subject) chose Hogir Hirori’s film Sabaya for its main award, the Big Stamp. The members of the jury – Katarina Zrinka Matijević, Mikhail Gorobchuk and Dalibor Matanić –  were “captivated by the thriller-suspenseful drama, the insanely brave camera, fascinatingly wise …

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TiVi5MONDE NOW AVAILABLE IN THE MAGHREB AND MIDDLE EAST

tivi5monde

TiVi5MONDE the youth channel for 4-14 year olds from the TV5MONDE group is now available free of charge in HD and SD, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, on the ARABSAT Badr 26° East satellite, which has exclusive rights to it in the Maghreb and Middle-East region. East. With its varied programs from …

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SYRIA / “The Swimmers”, the Netflix project about two refugee sisters who became Olympic champions

Yusra Mardini

“The Swimmers” tells the extraordinary story of two sisters, Sarah and Yusra Mardini, refugees from Syria who became Olympic champions. In 2015 their home was destroyed during the Syrian civil war, so the sisters decided to leave the country. They went first to Lebanon, then to Turkey, hoping to cross the Aegean to get to …

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SYRIA / “Children of the Enemy”, the story of a man searching for his grandchildren, born of ISIS fighters

Les Enfants de l'Ennemi

First shown at the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival CPH: DOX, “Children of the Enemy” follows Patricio Galvez, a 50-year-old Swedish-Chilean searching for his family in the middle of ISIS territory. His daughter Amanda’s story is notorious in Sweden: converted to radical Islam, married to a jihadist, she flew with their 4 children to fight …

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MOROCCO SYRIA / Three films from Morocco and Syria sweep the board at the Oued-Noun Festival

Festival du Cinéma de Oued-Noun

The 9th Oued-Noun Film Festival was organized online from February 26th to 28th. Usually it takes place in southern Morocco, on the edge of the Sahara in the city of Guelgim. This year’s jury was chaired by Laurine Bauby, a French actress and director, accompanied by Moroccan actress Latefa Ahrar and Tunisian academic Wassim Korbi. The 3 …

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SYRIA / Notturno and the strength of those who stay behind

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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SYRIA / The Cave shows the long struggle of Syrian doctors

Syrian director Feras Fayyad was nominated for an Academy Award this year in the Best Documentary Film category for The Cave. In 2018 he was nominated in the same category for Last Men in Aleppo,following volunteer rescue teams in the heart of Aleppo after five years of war. The background of The Cave is the …

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