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Website. arabfilmfestival .org. The Arab Film Festival (AFF) is the flagship program of the Arab Film and Media Institute (AFMI) a nonprofit organization that hosts the largest and longest-running independent Arab film festival in the United States. [1] It is held in California each year in San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Jose, San Diego, and ...
The Cairo International Film Festival is a world-class annual film festival in Cairo, Egypt. Established in 1976, it was the first film festival to be held in the Arab world and was the only international competitive feature film festival in the West Asia and Africa recognized by the FIAPF until Fajr International Film Festival became another west asian festival accredited by FIAPF.
An international co-production of Australia, the United States, and the United Arab Emirates, [4] Late Night with the Devil had its world premiere at the South by Southwest Film Festival (SXSW) on 10 March 2023. It was released theatrically in the United States on 22 March 2024 by IFC Films and in Australia on 11 April. The film grossed $15 ...
Michel Shehadeh. Michel Shehadeh born in 1956, in Amman, Jordan, to a Palestinian Christian family, is the Palestinian-American executive director of the Arab Film Festival and the former western regional director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (1996–2003). Raised in Palestine, Shehadeh relocated to the United States for ...
1962. (1962) Gaza City. Nationality. Palestinian. Occupation. Film Director. Rashid Masharawi (also: "Rashid Mashrawi") (Arabic: رشيد مشهراوي) is a Palestinian film director, born in Gaza in 1962 to a family of refugees from Jaffa. He grew up in the Shati refugee camp.
Dìdi had its world premiere at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival on January 19, 2024. [8] A few days later, Focus Features acquired distribution rights to the film. [ 9 ] It also screened at South by Southwest on March 12, 2024, [ 10 ] [ 11 ] and had its international premiere at the Beijing International Film Festival on April 19, 2024.
2004–present. Notable work. Night Walk. Aziz Tazi is a Moroccan screenwriter, director and producer who appeared in a Forbes Africa ' s 30 Under 30 list. [1] Tazi made his directorial debut with the feature film Night Walk. The crime drama was acquired by Lionsgate and is the first Moroccan film to get Hollywood distribution.
Teta, Alf Marra (Arabic for: Grandma, A Thousand Times) is an Arabic language documentary film about a feisty Beiruti grandmother. The fifty minute film was produced in 2010 as a UAE / Qatar / Lebanon co-production with the financial support of the Doha Film Institute and Screen Institute Beirut. The film was produced by Veritas Films.