The 79th Cannes Film Festival has unveiled its official selection, and it includes several Mediterranean productions. The festival will take place from May 12th to 23rd. In the Un Certain Regard section, Moroccan director Laila Marrakchi will present her third feature La mas dulce (Strawberries). The film follows two young Moroccan women working in southern …
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The 28th Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival took place from March 5th to 15th in cinemas and online. This year a total of 252 documentaries were screened, feature-length and short, including a record 80 world premieres, 32 international premieres and 11 European premieres. Greek documentaries were also well represented with 57 across the various categories. …
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The Marrakech International Film Festival has announced the 28 projects selected for the 8th Atlas Workshops, which will take place in parallel with the festival from November 30th to December 4th. Launched in 2018, Atlas Workshops is a talent development programme supporting Moroccan, and more broadly Arab and African, film-making. For this 8th edition, Romanian …
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Awal Film has announced details of the 6th Amman International Film Festival which will be held from July 2nd to 10th. This year’s theme, A World Unscripted, will focus on the unforeseeable aspects of story-telling. In the words of Festival President Princess Rym Ali: “This year’s Festival embraces the unpredictable and the deeply human in …
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“To a Land Unknown” by Palestinian-Danish director Mahdi Fleifel, won the Grand Prix in the European Feature Film Competition at the 37th Premiers Plans festival in Angers. The film is about two Palestinian cousins in Athens, refugees, living on the edge. They have to steal and scam their way to get enough money to buy …
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The 7th El Gouna Film Festival was held from October 24th to November 1st. This year the event, which showcases new voices in world cinema, offered 83 films from 48 countries divided into 5 categories – including the Fiction Feature Film Competition and the Documentary Film Competition. On the fiction side, the films included Algiers …
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The festival for Middle Eastern documentaries, Middle East Now, is preparing its 15th edition which will be held in Florence from October 15th to 20th. This year’s theme: Ecologies of Resistance. For the festival organisers this theme covers both the climate crisis and war, two tragedies they consider “deeply intertwined”. Using the earthquakes which hit …
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