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All Middle East articles – Page 101
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NewsFilm-maker Jafar Panahi detained in Iran
Award winning director Jafar Panahi has been arrested in his home country of Iran, it was reported today.
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NewsNew Corp snaps up 9% stake in Rotana Group
News Corporation extends its reach in the Middle East with acquisition.
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Travel ban forced Panahi to stay home
Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi has fallen victim to the travel ban imposed by president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s regime
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Screen launches new European production and financing database
Screen International unveils online European production and financing database offering up-to-the-minute information to subscribers.
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News$15m 3D Jerusalem project set to shoot this year
A $15m 3D film about Jerusalem that aims to promote religious understanding is set to start shooting in the city this year.
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FeaturesBeyond Dubai
Other Gulf territories aim to be major players in the international film industry. Mohammed Rouda reports
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FeaturesThe Gulf: ambition and achievement
Dubai has worked hard to put itself at the centre of the Arab film-making world, with the Dubai International Film Festival and Dubai Studio City. But has the financial crisis placed a roadblock in its path? Mohammed Rouda reports
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NewsMiddle East Film Festival announces 2010 dates
The Middle East International Film Festival, Abu Dhabi has announced that its fourth edition will run October 14 to 23. It comes as the festival calls for entries for narrative and documentary features and short films.
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NewsRob Marshall's Nine launches 6th Dubai Film Festival
The 6th Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) launched in usual style last night (December 9) with a star-studded screening of Rob Marshall’s musical feature Nine (pictured), despite the debt crisis that is looming over the city.
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NewsElle Driver closes sales on Warwick Thornton's Samson And Delilah
French sales outfit Elle Driver has done brisk sales on Warwick Thornton’s Camera d’Or winner Samson And Delilah.
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NewsNine, Avatar bookend 6th Dubai Film Festival
Rob Marshall’s musical feature Nine, starring Daniel Day Lewis (pictured), will open the 6th Dubai International Film Festival on December 9.
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NewsMarrakech announces line-up
Marrakech film festival has selected 15 films for its competition line-up.
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NewsOlivia Thirlby to star in Sherry Hormann's The No Game
Olivia Thirlby (pictured) will star alongside Marcia Gay Harden and Shohreh Aghdashloo on Sherry Hormann’s drama The No Game, set to commence shooting in New York and Israel in March 2010.
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NewsCairo festival hands main prizes to Letters To Father Jacob and The Hedgehog
The main awards at this year’s Cairo International Film Festival, which ran from to November 10-20, were shared by two European fables of spiritual growth and redemption.