All articles by Melanie Goodfellow – Page 14
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El Gouna confirms Intishal Al Tamimi as director, sets 2022-24 dates
Date announcement signals commitment to continue the festival after eventful fifth edition.
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Morocco’s Oscar submission ‘Casablanca Beats’ seals raft of deals (exclusive)
The film follows a group of youngsters living in a poor part of Casablanca who participate in a hip-hop workshop.
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How are vaccine passports, health checks and social distancing impacting cinema-going around the world?
No Time To Die’s potent global rollout has steadied the nerves of exhibitors, but Covid-19 rules still present a mixed bag for audiences.
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French exhibitors body calls on Netflix to renounce cinema screenings plan
National Federation Of French Cinemas (FNCF) says the initiative is incoherent with media chronology negotiations.
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Emir Kusturica to preside over jury at Cairo International Film Festival
The 43rd edition of CIFF will take place from November 26 to December 5.
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French distributors protest Netflix public screening event
The two bodies – SDI and DIRE – issued a strongly worded statement
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Egyptian filmmaker Sara Shazli on how Cairo lockdown inspired doc ‘Back Home’
Debut feature documentary world premiered in El Gouna Film Festival.
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Egyptian director Omar El Zohairy talks ‘Feathers’ backlash, next film
Social satire defied local criticism to win best Arab narrative film at the El Gouna Film Festival this year.
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El Gouna Film Festival director Intishal Al Tamimi talks eventful fifth edition
Egyptian Red Sea event marked its fifth edition from October 14-22.
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Algerian, Palestinian projects scoop top prizes at CineGouna Platform
The El Gouna Film Festival’s project development platform showcased 20 projects in development and post-production.
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Somali Oscar submission ‘The Gravedigger’s Wife’ wins at Africa’s Fespaco festival
Africa’s biggest film festival unfolded in Burkina Faso from October 16 to 23.
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‘The Blind Man Who Did Not Want To See Titanic’ wins top prizes at Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival
In other prizes Mounia Akl’s Costa Brava, Lebanon clinches Fipresci prize and inaugural Green Award.
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Morocco’s Hicham Lasri says new film ‘Happy Lovers’ will be more mainstream
Producer Lamia Chraibi describes it as a black comedy with elements of Irreversible and Fargo.
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El Gouna Film Festival artistic director Amir Ramses resigns
The resignation comes amid a challenging fifth edition for the Egyptian Red Sea event.
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Can a tech start-up help to revolutionise Egypt’s local film industry?
Cinema-focused start-up incubator unveiled a new round of supported projects at the El Gouna Film Festival this year.
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Be For Films boards Pier-Philippe Chevigny’s migrant worker drama ‘Rive Sud’ (exclusive)
Social dream co-stars C.R.A.Z.Y star Marc-Andre Grondin opposite rising actress Ariane Castellanos.
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mk2 films unveils deals on Rome, MIA titles ‘The Young Lovers’, ‘The Love Letter’ (exclusive)
The Young Lovers, starring Fanny Ardant and Melvil Poupaud, has just world premiered at the Rome Film Festival.
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Actor Mohammad Bakri pulls out of El Gouna after Palestinian director deported
Celebrated Palestinian actor and director was to have received career achievement award.
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Four talking points from the MIA film and TV market in Rome
Around 2,000 film and TV professionals attended this year’s seventh edition.
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UK-based Palestinian director detained, deported en route to El Gouna
UK-based filmmaker was to have pitched upcoming feature project Weedestine at the CineGouna Springboard platform.