From April 5th to 10th Florence is hosting the seventh Middle East Now – a festival of film and culture. The programming looks at Middle Eastern culture, with screenings, exhibitions, concerts, food tastings and conferences. 44 films from across the Arab world will be screened, and for the first time a Saudi film-maker will be …
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Two Frenchmen living in Marseille, Youri Cayron, an artist and Romain Rivalan, production manager and cameraman, are currently finishing “Ask The Birds”, a feature film shot in Israel and the West Bank. Editing is now complete and a crowd-funding campaign has been launched to find finance for the post-production. During two trips in 2014 and …
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2015 sees the return of the biennial festival “The Middle East: What the Cinema Can Do” from November 20th to 29th in Paris, at the Les 3 Luxembourg cinema. This year 40 films will be screened, many for the first time in France. The festival will open with Amir Shomali’s animated documentary “The Wanted 18”, …
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This year the Panorama of North African and Middle Eastern Film will celebrate its tenth birthday. It will take place between March 31st and April 19th just outside Paris in Saint-Denis and Seine-Saint-Denis. Audiences will see the latest films from North Africa and the Middle East through a selection of some fifty films from Morocco, …
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The sixth Middle East Now, a festival for film, documentary, visual arts, music, culinary events and discussions focussed on today’s Middle East, is back in Florence from April 8th to 13th. This year’s theme: the journey. 45 films from established directors and new talent in the Middle East will be screened, most of them shown …
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Organized from June 16th to 24th the Sundance Institute’s Documentary Edit and Story Lab hosted 4 documentary directors and their projects, including a Jordanian film and a Palestinian film. Designed to encourage experimentation and risk-taking through peer-to-peer engagement, this week-long gathering creates a place and an atmosphere for the chosen directors to develop, question and …
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The feature-length documentary The Neighbourhood Storyteller, produced by an NGO called the Big Heart Foundation, has been selected for more than 25 international festivals and won several awards. Among others it was selected by DOQUMENTA in Mexico, the Middlebury New Film-makers Festival in America and the UK’s Close:Up Edinburgh Docufest. Its awards include the Women-in-Film …
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