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Alexandria International Film Festival pays tribute to Chahine and hosts Syria

Nomination of an Egyptian Film for the Academy Award
The writer and critic Mohammad Salmawi will be the head of a special jury in Egypt, which task is to nominate the Egyptian film for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. This jury will choose one of the films that have captured the merit and attention of the audiences, from October 2007 to...

Two Arab Films, Winners in Messina Film Festival in Sicily Island
The Award for Best Documentary Feature went to the film "Ameena" by Yemeni director Khadeeja al-Silmi, during Messina Film festival held in its second edition. And Emirati filmmaker Saeed Salmeen...

Italian festival in Messina makes “The planet, a Woman”
Celebrities and personalities participated in the second edition of the Italian Film Festival in Messina, Sicily Island, for a week under the slogan “

Syrian Comedian Mahmoud Jabr Died
Syrian comedian Mahmoud Jabr died of heart attack in Damascus at the age of 73, leaving behind him a variety of well-known films such as “Mailman”,...

Studies on Youssef Chahine’s Cinema
Many authors and critics were captured by Youssef Chahine’s cinema all over the years. The critic Walid Chmeit wrote “

Egypt bids farewell to legendary director Youssef Chahine
Youssef Chahine, one of Egypt’s most lauded directors, died in Cairo at the age of 82. Sixty years he was kept busy by filmmaking, sixty years he devoted himself to the Arab and international cinema through a wide spectrum of controversial showpieces, such as “

The Arab Film Festival in London

Hammamat International Festival in Tunisia
The Tunisian city Hammamat is celebrating its international festival until the 19^th of August. This year, the festival includes 50 activities from music and dance to

The Asian and Arab Cinema Festival in New Delhi
The Japanese film “Sonata Tokyo”, by director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, won the first award at the 10^th edition of “Osian’s Cinefan” festival for Asian and Arab cinema that took place in New Delhi.

Tanjah Festival in Its Sixth Edition
The sixth edition of Tanjah Festival for Mediterranean short films presented a competition in which 48 films dealt with the current situation in Mediterranean countries.

The International Arab Film Festival
Algerian city Wahran has witnessed the second edition of the international Arab film festival in which many Arab cinema stars have participated. Egyptian celebrities Mahmud Abed el-Aziz and Mahmud Yassine, Syrian artist Mona Wassef, Algerian director Ahmad Rashidi, and late Syrian filmmaker

Mohammad Kamel al-Kalyoubi
Egyptian director Mohammad Kamel al-Kalyoubi has finished his documentary film presenting the life of late actor Najib al-Rihani. The shooting took weeks and the scenes were filmed between Alexandria and Cairo where al-Rihani spent most of his life. Al-Rihani’s...

Cairo Cinema
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The Fourteenth Festival for Arab – French Film
The department of Cooperation and cultural activities in the French Cultural Center organize, in cooperation with the Greater Amman Municipality, Royal Film Commission, Abd Al-Hamid Shawfan foundation, the 14^th Arab – French film Festival from the 2^nd until the 9 of...

Five Minutes Away From Home
“Five Minutes Away From Home” is the title of the film that has been showing lately in “Al-Kassaba theater and cinematic” in Ramallah, by the Palestinian director Nohad Awad.

The Francophone Film Festival
The Algerian capital hosted during the month of June, the Francophone Film Festival that...

The First Screening of the Iraqi Comedy Film
One of Sydney's cinema theatres witnessed during the month of June, the first screening of the one of its kind Iraqi comedy film "The Abduction of Kamer" in the presence of the...

Algerian Cinematic Activities
The Algerian Minister of culture Khalida Toumi, announced the preparations for the issuance of a new law related to Algerian cinematic activities including subventions for the post-production phase, the proper equipping of cinema theatres as well as providing help or assistance to the graduates of the Higher Institute of...

Al Taj Al Thahabi Film Festival
Algeria, guest of honor at the "Al Taj Al Thahabi" film Festival

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