Abdelhatif Belhaj and Lolita Bourdet are appealing for crowd-funding to finance the post-production of their documentary “La pêche et l’olive”, filmed in Seine-Saint-Denis and Palestine. The film follows nine teenagers living in a district of Montreuil (a “difficult” suburb of Paris), who go to the village of Beit Sira, near Ramallah in Palestine as part …
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According to Reuters, on March 12th the European company Eutelsat stopped transmitting the Palestinian channel Al Aqsa TV, after a telephone conversation the previous day between the French President, François Hollande and the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu . The channel was nevertheless back on air shortly afterwards on other networks, including the Egyptian Nilesat. …
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“Palestine in sight – First Palestinian Film Festival in the Rhône-Alpes Created by the ERAP Association (Palestine/Rhône-Alpes Exchanges) this first festival of Palestinian film opened in Annecy (France) in May and will travel round ten of the region’s towns from June 3rd to 12th. More than twenty screenings of ten different films are being shown. …
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With screenings from July 26th to August 3rd, the 7th Amman International Film Festival will present 82 films from 27 countries. Eight films are featured in the Arab feature film competition, notably Amel Guellati’s Where the Wind Comes From (2024). This Tunisian production is about a rebellious 19-year-old, Alyssa, and her friend who decide to …
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Organised by the Association for Cultural and Artistic Activities in the Southern Provinces, the 14th Dakhla International Film Festival took place from June 6th to 12th. This year the organisers presented nine feature films and ten documentaries, divided into two competitions. The films submitted came from 21 countries in Africa, Europe, the Middle East and …
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The 6th Annaba Mediterranean Film Festival took place from April 24th to 30th in the port city of Annaba. A total of 55 films from 20 countries were screened in four competitions: feature films, documentaries, shorts and films made by AI. In the feature film category the Grand Prix went to Morad Mostafa’s Aisha Can’t …
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Arab cinema made a strong showing at the 76th Berlinale. With Morocco as guest country at the European Film Market (EFM) and 15 Arab films selected in Festival’s various categories, the Arab film industry demonstrated its dynamism and creativity. During the EFM, the Centre cinématographique marocain (CCM) organised several events to showcase the diversity of …
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