19/06/2013
Hany Abu-Assad, Palestinian directorLast May, in Cannes, Palestinian director Hany Abu Assad's Omar was awarded the Jury Prize in the festival's Un Certain Regard section. In it, sensitive young baker Omar is accustomed to dodging surveillance bullets to scale the separation wall...
19/06/2013
Adam Bakri and Waleed Zuaiter, actors in Palestinian feature OmarLast May, in Cannes, Palestinian director Hany Abu Assad's Omar was awarded the Jury Prize in the festival's Un Certain Regard section. In his first film since his award-winning Paradise Now (2006, winner of a Golden Globe and first Palestinian...
18/06/2013
Egyptian filmmakers sought for Super 8 and 16 mm film workshopAnalogue Zone is an 18-month-long celluloid film training programme, involving more than 30 filmmakers, artists, and amateurs from Egypt, Germany, Greece and Lebanon. The programme consists in a collective and collaborative reflection and...
16/06/2013
Greenhouse 2013 kicks off: 26 filmmakers gather in MoroccoFrom June 5 to 10, the directors and producers of 17 documentary film projects from Palestine, Egypt, Israel, Morocco, Lebanon, Algeria and Tunisia gathered in Morocco to take part in the first seminar of the 2013 edition of the Greenhouse...
13/06/2013
Dubai Film Connection co-production market calls for entriesArab filmmakers are invited to submit the feature-length fiction and documentary film projects in development to this year's Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF)'s Dubai Film Connection (DFC) co-production market. Teams of a director and a...
12/06/2013
Euromed Audiovisual discusses future of its audiovisual market data collection projectThe European Union's Euromed Audiovisual III programme together with its partners, the European Audiovisual Observatory (EAO), the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), and the Permanent Conference of Mediterranean Audiovisual Operators (COPEAM),...
12/06/2013
Algerian film awarded at the European Film Festival in TunisThe closing ceremony of the 20th European Film Festival (JCE) in Tunis was held last Friday, June 7 at CinéMadart Carthage. Best North African feature film went to Algerian filmmaker Safinez Bousbia’s El Gusto. The JCE took place from May 28 to...
12/06/2013
Mediterranean broadcasters discuss sustaining Terramed PlusRepresentatives from television channels participating in Terramed Plus, a Euromed Audiovisual-supported project to share Mediterranean audiovisual projects with subtitles on either side of the Mediterranean Sea, met in Algiers with Algerian...
11/06/2013
Young Arab Voices seeks new partners in Egypt and MoroccoThe Young Arab Voices programme, jointly managed by the Anna Lindh Foundation and the British Council, is launching a call for expression of interest in Egypt and Morocco to identify new partner organisations working with young people in the...
11/06/2013
Arab and European films awarded in IsmailiaEgypt's Ismailia International Film Festival drew to a close on Sunday despite a power cut, awarding Arab and European filmmakers for their documentaries and shorts. Best Feature-Length Documentary went to Palestinian-Danish filmmaker Mehdi...