The 17th Marrakesh International Film Festival opened on November 30th at the Palais des Congrès with the screening of Julian Schnabel’s At Eternity’s Gate. The director’s sixth feature is about the last years of Vincent Van Gogh’s life, performed by actor Willem Dafoe. After a year’s absence the festival made its comeback with many new …
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For the fourth consecutive year, the UK’s only festival exclusively for Arab films was held in London from September 13th to 18th. This year audiences discovered many films which have never been shown outside the Middle East. The screenings took place at the Institute of Contemporary Arts and the French Institute. This year’s theme was …
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The 24th Franco-Arab Film Festival was held from June 24th to July 1st in Amman. 11 films from the Middle East (Iraq, Jordan, Palestine) and North Africa (Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia) were screened, as well as some French films. This year the themes were migration, justice and freedom. The festival is organized by the Institut …
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“Mediterranean Memories” prize rewards the documentary lasting more than 30 minutes, which – with or without archives – most successfully places in a present-day context historical events concerning the Mediterranean, stories of men and women, whether individual or collective, or places of symbolism and memory. Here are the films chosen to take part in the …
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Croatia’s public television, HRT, has signed a multi-year agreement with the Eutelsat satellite to broadcast its HRT-HTV channel, an education, entertainment and news channel, outside the country via satellite, in this case Hotbird. The channel’s content is in Croatian, but there are also programmes in English, Spanish and German. The agreement will enable the channel …
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According to the Arabic Facebook page of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation will transmit the soccer World Cup for free in Arabic. In 2010, Israel tried unsuccessfully to buy the rights. This year it managed to obtain them – for €6.3 million. The matches will be shown on the …
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The 11th Terra di Tutti festival, held in Bologna between October 13th and 15th, presented awards to several French documentaries and television reports. Focussing on social cinema, Terra di Tutti this year offered 35 documentaries and TV reports from around the world, including twenty in competition. In a selection strongly influenced by the twin themes …
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