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MOROCCO – FRANCE / Morocco celebrated at the Fameck Arab Film Festival

Festival du Film Arabe de Fameck

The 34th Fameck Arab Film Festival took place from October 5th to 15th with Morocco as the country in the spotlight. The event, organized by the Cité Sociale de Fameck and the Ligue de l’enseignement, offered more than 40 films (feature-length dramas, documentaries and shorts), many of which are new or in preview. Film-makers from …

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France / The Fameck Festival of Arab Film honours Algeria

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The 33rd Festival of Arab Film in Fameck (eastern France) will put Algeria in the spotlight. This year’s festival coincides with the 60th anniversary of the Evian agreements which ended France’s 8 year war with Algeria. The festivities will take place in Fameck from October 6th to 16th. Organized by the Cité Sociale and the …

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Egypt / MAD Solutions has sent 11 films to the Malmö Arab Film Festival

Mad Solutions

Eleven films, all distributed by the Egyptian company MAD Solutions, were shown at the 12th  Malmö Arab Film Festival (MAFF) in Sweden from May 4th to 9th. MAFF is the largest European festival dedicated to films from the Arab world. Each year the event attracts professionals as well as film-buffs. This year it presented 56 …

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FRANCE / For its 10th year the Noisy-le-Sec Festival of Franco-Arab Film puts Palestine in the seat of honour

FFA 2021

Having been cancelled in 2021 because of the health crisis, the Franco-Arab Film Festival (FFFA) of Noisy-le-Sec ran from November 12th to 23rd. Since 2011 this annual event has supported “recent films by film-makers from Arab countries and French directors whose backgrounds and concerns are linked to those countries.” A total of 29 feature films, …

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JORDAN / “Tala’ Vision”, first Arab and Jordanian film to win a gold medal at the 48th Student Academy Awards

Tala Vision

“Tala ‘Vision” is the first Jordanian or Arab film to win the gold medal for Best Narrative Film (International) at the 48th Student Academy Awards in California, also called the “Student Oscars”. This victory allows directors to compete for their work in the short films category at the 2022 Oscars. The Jordanian-German short is about …

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UNITED KINGDOM / SAFAR Film Festival, the only festival solely for Arab cinema, is back after the pandemic

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Organized and founded in 2012 by the Arab British Centre, SAFAR Film Festival is the only UK film festival dedicated to the Arab world. This year’s hybrid edition, running from July 11th to 17th, is organized around the theme of “generational encounters in Arab cinema”, through contemporary and classic films about the emerging generation, family disparities …

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FRANCE / Arab stars celebrated at the Institut du Monde Arabe

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The Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA) honours the Arab world’s best female singers and film actresses of the last century. From Fayrouz to Dalida, from North Africa to the Middle East, the exhibition traces the social and political history of these Arab performers, producers and artists, the cultural changes they brought about through their commitment and the …

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