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El Gouna Film Festival promotes Andrew Mohsen to artistic director
The appointment follows the departure of Marianne Khoury earlier this year.
Suzannah Mirghani’s prize-winning ‘Cotton Queen’ picked up for UK-Ireland
EXCLUSIVE: The Venice Critics’ Week premiere will be released theatrically in the autumn.
Iran war restricts Filmart attendance for Middle East film industry
One executive says they changed to online only attendance due to “uncertainty around air traffic”.
‘The Voice Of Hind Rajab’ actor to miss Oscars due to Palestinian citizenship
“You can block a passport. You cannot block a voice,” said Malhees.
Rapman, Trevor Noah projects among first Next Narrative Africa Fund film and TV slate
$50m in content funding to be deployed over five years.
Qatar’s Qumra lab moves online-only due to Iran war
Event focus will remain on private one-on-one mentorship.
Africa’s Realness Institute appoints new board, advisory council
Four-person board will be supported by nine-person advisory council.
Marianne Khoury steps down as El Gouna Film Festival artistic director
The filmmaker oversaw three editions of the festival in Egypt.
Idris Elba on how building “practical pathways” for African filmmakers will help diversify the industry
Elba is an exec producer on Berlinale Forum documentary ‘Crocodile’, directed by five Nigerian YouTubers and NZ filmmaker Pietra Brettkelly.
Gael Garcia Bernal, Alice Diop, Diego Luna among Qumra 2026 Masters
Event will run from March 27 to April 1.
Bêtes Sauvages, Lunar Pictures producers among Matchmakers Global South lab cohort
EXCLUSIVE: Lab includes 10 features from UK producers looking for international partners in Global South.
Arab filmmakers return to Berlin to talk politics
Films in selection include Abdallah Alkhatib’s ’ Chronicles From The Siege’ and Rania Rafei’s ’The Day Of Wrath: Tales From Tripoli’.
Steve Toussaint, Sanaa Lathan to lead C.J. Obasi’s psychological drama ‘A Blue Butterfly’
EXCLUSIVE: Film will start production next month in UK and Rwanda.
MAD World boards ‘Blue Card’ from Cannes award-winning Sudanese filmmakers
EXCLUSIVE: The project was selected for the Berlinale Co-Production Market but the filmmakers withdraw after visa issues.
Acclaimed Sudanese filmmakers pull out of Berlinale Co-Pro Market after visa rejection over “migration risk”
EXCLUSIVE: The director and producer of ‘Blue Card’ previously produced Cannes award-winner ‘Goodbye Julia’.
Production underway in Ethiopia on Toronto-based Gobez Media’s 1970s-set thriller ‘Mehal Sefari’
EXCLUSIVE: Ethiopian-Canadian Tamara Mariam Dawit produces.
Jason Statham thriller ‘Shelter’ revives Saudi box office after opening top across MENA
Directed by Ric Roman Waugh, the action thriller was released in the region by Front Row Filmed Entertainment.
‘It Was Just An Accident’ co-writer arrested in Iran after condemning regime
Jafar Panahi responds with statement: “Mehdi Mahmoudian is a witness, a listener, and a rare moral presence.”
Bassel Ghandour, Hinde Boujemaa projects among Doha Film Institute’s autumn selection
Latest funding round sees the DFI surpass 1,000 supported projects worldwide since the programme’s inception.
Iranian filmmakers call for help amid government’s brutal crackdown on protests
Iranian Independent Filmmakers Association said: “Another Tiananmen tragedy is forming before our eyes, with a magnitude ten times greater”.
