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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Palestinian directors Arab and Tarzan Nasser won the Best Director Award in the Un Certain Regard category for their film Once Upon a Time in Gaza. A dark comedy with a sharp social commentary, Once Upon a Time in Gaza is about a young student, Yahya, who forms an unlikely friendship with an outgoing but …
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From March 3rd to 11th the Toulouse Festival of Palestinian Film will be back for 9 days of screenings about Palestine There will be a lot of films on offer. Mahdi Fleifel’s Vers un pays inconnu, having won an award recently at Premiers Plans, will open the festival. Also on the programme is From Ground …
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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 35th Carthage Film Festival was held from December 14th to 21st 2024. After its cancellation in 2023 in support of the Palestinian people, the Festival continued its commitment by putting Palestine “at the heart of the JCC” with a selection of Palestinian films as well as a tribute to director Hany Abu-Assad. This 35th …
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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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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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