The Algerian capital hosted during the month of June, the Francophone Film Festival that...
The project of a biographical film about Prince Abdel Kader (1807-1883), founder of the modern Algerian government, is still waiting to be initiated.
Despite the available budget of 90 million dollars...
The “Jana organization for culture and arts” has organized in the ‘Rimal workshop’ in Jordan, the screening of 3 films tackling the subject of the Palestinian cause, on the occasion of the 60th memorial of the Palestinian Nakba.
After The screening of "Baiid Aan Al Watan", "Ziyara" and "Napalm", a debate took place with the two directors Qais...
The Spanish city of Grenada lived on the first week of June, the cinematic atmosphere of the second edition of the “Cinamat al Janoub” film festival, considered to be a space for dialogue through creativity.
This edition involved, in addition to its official program, 14 feature fictions from Turkey, Iran, Malaysia, Morocco, China and other countries, a touring...
The cultural and artistic organization of Al Ouyoun city in Morocco organized the first cinematic forum between the 4th and the 8th of June.
This event honored the illustrious Moroccan actor Mohamed Moftah and his compatriot director Narjis Najjar as well as the...
November 2008
In the 60th anniversary of the Palestinian uprooting, ARCPA / AL-JANA Center
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The Palestinian director Ala' Abu Ghoush will be participating during the month of June in the Palestinian films season, with his film “Aasir al Soubbayr” in an event organized by the municipality of Paris in France.
Moreover, many films from the ‘Youth Cinema Festival’ that were screened in the French cultural center of Ramallah in May, will be also participating in the “Cinema Film...
The “Founoun wa Thaqafa” organization is presenting in the Culture Hall of the Algerian capital, a collection of awarded Algerian films from the “Panorama al Cinema Al Jaza’iriyya”, an event that took place at the beginning of the year 2008 in Alger.
Among the main films “The Adventures of Hajji Baba” by Don Weis and
The Youth Cinema Festival, an event that ran at the French Cultural Center of Ramallah in Palestine, ended after the screening of 13 short films, produced in 2006 with the collaboration of the “Akka Film Corporation” and directed by young Palestinian directors.
This festival initiated by the Palestinian director Ala' Abu Ghoush had started with the screening of “Ricco Fi al...
The Cinema Committee of the High Cultural Council in Egypt is organizing in the opera house, an honoring ceremony, as a tribute to 25 cinema pioneers.
This special event will also be celebrating the 100 years anniversary of the Egyptian cinema.
Among the honored names are the directors Sherif Hammouda, Hassan Ibrahim, Simon Saleh, Mohamed...
A cinematic season has started in Egypt on the 28th of May with the “Summer Egyptian Cinema Festival” that will carry on with its official screenings until the mid of July.
15 films, mostly comedies, are competing in this festival, among which 4 Musicals, with Mostafa Qamar, Tamer Hosny, Hamada Hilal and Madeleine Matar.
This season’s surprise is expected to be...
The High Cultural Council has published a book entitled “The Egyptian Cinema and its Transformation through the Last Ten Years”.
This book is the result of a series of research on cinema done by Egyptian researchers and supervised by a committee headed by Samir Seif.
The cinema critic Sobhi Chafiq explored the technological image revolution in the book’s introduction, as...
The novelist Issam Youssef signed an agreement with two production companies, “Al Karma” and “Montana Studios” in order to make a film adaptation out of his first novel “Quarter of a Gram”, after its huge success in the Egyptian market.
This novel, published by the Egyptian/Lebanese publishing house has been printed for the 4th time and over 10 thousand copies have been sold in less than 6 months.
The Cultural Development Fund has published a book as a tribute honoring the star Nelly, in the frame of the National Egyptian Cinema Festival in its 14th Edition.
This book written by the critic Majida Moris, entitled "Nelly Al-Dallouaa", will illustrate Nelly's artistic journey and is divided into 2 parts: the first one covering
The Lebanese director Fares Khalil, is getting ready to present his new feature "Amour d'Enfant" on the 5th of June.
This film revolves around a modern love story between a young university student and an actress at the beginning of her career.
As for the film's original title, the director chose it to be in French because he felt that it reflected more...
The “Claquette Arab” company is organizing, in collaboration with the Spanish embassy in Egypt, the first Arab Cinema Festival presenting Spanish speaking films directed by women, an event that will be happening between the first and the 5th of June.
15 Arab and foreign woman directors will be participating in this festival, presenting 14 documentaries and one fiction.