The film world premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival before playing 85 other festivals worldwide. “After ‘Captains of Zaatari’ people began to trust me,” he says.

The Toronto International Film Festival, returning for its 50th edition next month, is an important platform for films from the Middle East, offering space for emerging and established Arab filmmakers ...

Matt left home in Baltimore in 2006 and set off on a self-described “crash course in manhood”. He bought a motorcycle and a video camera and began a three-year, 56,000km motorcycle trip through the ...

There are six films made by six Arab directors coming from five Arab countries, distributed equally in the three main programmes of the festival. There are also two other directors with an Arab ...

The Arab Spring of pro-democracy uprisings features prominently -- both directly and more subtly -- in the selections at the third annual Doha Tribeca Film Festival, kicking off in the Qatari ...

AMMAN - At a time when Arab cinema is grappling with questions of voice, visibility, and viability, the Pitching Platforms at the Amman International Film Festival (AIFF) offered something rare: a ...

The films are then available for three days once they are released for the on-line showings. The San Diego Arab Film Festival continues through June 28. You can see the festival’s trailer here.

Shot in six days on a budget of $45,000, the fictional 30-minute film, The Purple House, is equal parts comedy and drama – a reflection of the madness that its director, Selim Gribaa, lived ...

Arab States Demand That Netflix Drop ‘Offensive Content’ Egypt joined six Gulf Arab nations in insisting that streaming services take down programs that go against “societal values.” ...