Produced by the Saudi channel MBC, the series Muawiyah has sparked controversy in many countries, sometimes even before it is shown. With a budget of $100 million, this 30-episode series traces the career of Muawiyah ibn Abi Sufyan, the first caliph of the Umayyad dynasty, whose reign marked the division between Sunnis and Shiites. The …
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Agora, the industry section of the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival (TIDF), has named the 14 projects which will take part in the Pitching Forum, to be held from March 7th to 15th. Created in 1999, Agora is a major event for producing and financing international documentary projects from Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East. …
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This year’s Fipadoc, which runs from January 24th to February 1st, will devote its Territorial Focus to the Balkans, with 22 documentaries. Among the first titles announced, Maja Novaković’s At the Door of the House Who Will Come Knocking? (Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina) takes us to the heart of Bosnia where an elderly and solitary man, Emin, …
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Since August 25th the Arabic adaptation of the Turkish series Içerde (Inside), now called Al Ameel, has been available on MBC1, the leading pan-Arab Saudi television channel, and on the streaming platform Shahid. So now the series can be seen across much of North Africa and the Middle East. Its cast includes a large number …
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Produced by Bambú Producciones, the Spanish series La Promesa (The Vow) has been sold by the Studiocanal group to several TV channels, including C8 (France) and Dubai TV (North Africa and the Middle East). Written by Josep Cister Rubio, Susana Prieto, Ruth García and Carmen Llano, La Promesa is set in Spain at the beginning …
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The Mediterranean Film Festival returns to Malta for its 2nd year from June 22nd to 30th with the theme: Unity through film. Malta’s Film Commissioner, Johann Grech, explains the Festival’s importance: “In a time of unprecedented instability and division in the world, the Mediterranean Film Festival has a very special role to play in promoting, …
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On May 18th, during the 77th Cannes Film Festival, a co-production agreement was signed by Rachida DATI, the French Culture Minister and Mohamed Mehdi BENSAID, the Moroccan Minister of Youth, Culture and Communication. The agreement replaces one signed in 1977 and will offer producers in both countries “a modernized framework, in keeping with contemporary production …
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