All Egypt articles – Page 7
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NewsCairo International Film Festival pushes on with physical 2020 edition
Advisory committee is drawing up different contingencies as well as protective measures for guests.
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NewsNetflix picks up Luxembourg-Egypt comedy ‘Sawah’
Source: Deal Productions ‘Sawah’ Netflix has acquired Luxembourgish-Egyptian director Adolf El Assal comedy Sawah, starring popular Egyptian actor Karim Kassem as a Cairo-based DJ whose trip to Europe takes an unexpected turn when his identity papers are stolen. Under the acquisition, the film began screening in 46 ...
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FeaturesMy Working From Home Life: Lebanese producer Georges Schoucair
“We finished the shoot for Ely Dagher’s Harvest just as the first case of Covid-19 was reported in Lebanon.”
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NewsCinéfondation’s Atelier unveils 2020 selection
Screen UK Star Of Tomorrow Moin Hussain will present his project Birchanger Green.
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NewsMemento boards Hany Abu-Assad’s spy thriller ‘Huda’s Salon’ (exclusive)
It is the Golden Globe-winning and Oscar-nominated director’s first feature shot in Palestine since his 2015 Gaza-set drama The Idol.
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NewsMad Solutions strikes distribution deal on Saudi Rotana Media Group’s library (exclusive)
Rotana’s catalogue of 2,000 titles is one of the biggest in the Arab cinema in the world.
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NewsFrench sales company Totem Films expands into co-production (exclusive)
Company heads to debut Unifrance Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris and Sundance after fruitful first year.
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Features12 Asian, Middle Eastern and African titles to tempt festival directors in 2020
Includes new films from Ann Hui, Mohamed Diab and Kaouther Ben Hania.
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NewsWhy Arab and African indie filmmakers are embracing genre cinema
Mati Diop, Talal Selhami and Larissa Sansour discuss their different routes to genre at Marrakech’s Atlas Workshops.
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NewsNajwa Najjar talks about her middle-class Palestinian divorce drama ‘Between Heaven And Earth’
The film received a 10-minute standing ovation at its world premiere.
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NewsMexico’s ‘I Am No Longer Here,’ Tunisia’s ‘A Son’ win at Cairo Film Festival
Other winners include ’Ghost Tropic’, ‘The Fourth Wall’ and ’A Certain Kind of Silence’.
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NewsKarim Rahbani headed to Rotterdam Lab after Cairo Film Connection win
Cairo co-production platform metes out $200,000 worth of prizes.
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NewsCairo kicks off with ‘The Irishman’, bigger industry programme and Screen’s Arab Stars of Tomorrow
It is Egyptian producer Mohamed Hefzy’s second year at the helm.
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FeaturesThe Centrepiece interview: Cairo chief Mohamed Hefzy talks indie cinema, upcoming projects
Egyptian producer and Cairo International Film Festival director Mohamed Hefzy tells Screen about his journey from metallurgical engineer undergraduate in London to A-list festival habitué.
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NewsCairo becomes first Arab film festival to sign gender equality charter
The 5050×2020 gender equality charter was launched at the Cannes Film Festival in 2018.
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Emma Mackey, French & Saunders join ‘Death On The Nile’ as shooting starts at UK’s Longcross Studios
Production underway on Disney/Fox title.
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NewsSudanese drama ‘You Will Die At Twenty’ wins top award at Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival
Festival chief Intishal Al Tamimi says El Gouna Film Festival has built solid foundations.
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NewsEgypt’s El Gouna Film Festival hands out $15,000 industry prizes to two Lebanese projects
El Gouna Film Festival’s co-financing platform meted out $250,000 in prizes.
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Reviews‘You Will Die At Twenty’: Toronto Review
A young Sudanese boy struggles with a prophecy that proclaims he will die when he reaches the age of twenty