The 12th Catalonia Festival of Arab and Mediterranean Film opened on November 8th in Barcelona with the screening of Daily life in a Syrian village, a film by the great director and writer Omar Amiralay. This documentary made in 1974 with the playwright Saadallah Wannous had been banned in Syria. By showing the daily life …
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The Doc3 slot has just unveiled its summer schedule. During the second half of almost every Thursday evening from June 21st to October 4th some fifteen documentaries will be shown, presented by Fabio Mancini. Each film tells a story from around the world, seen through the eyes of the men and women concerned. Here is …
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The fourth Valletta Film Festival, organized by the Film Grain Foundation, will take place from June 8th to 17th. More than 50 international films will be screened, including 20 in the official competition, which is divided into three categories: feature films, documentaries and short films. On the sidelines of the competition there will be screenings …
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Between April 17th to 22nd the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image and the Cinémathèque tunisienne organised a series of screenings called “Preservation of the work of Mohamed Malas”. Born in 1945, this well-known Syrian director graduated from the Ecole normale at Damascus. He began his film career in the 1970s in Russia. In …
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From March 26th to 31st the 10th Muscat International Film Festival took place in Oman. 95 documentaries and drama films were screened. The festival, directed by Khalid Abdul Rahim al-Zadjali, is considered one of the most open for north African films, after the Alexandria and Cairo festivals. Algeria did well at Muscat, winning three awards …
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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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On Thursday February 15th the 68th edition of the famous film festival opened in Berlin. Several Mediterranean films are in the running in the different categories. France, Italy, the Lebanon, Spain and Portugal have the most productions or co-productions made in the region (15 for France, 10 for Italy, 9 for Lebanon and 6 each …
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