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One film medium that became incredibly popular during the war was the viewing and creation of films through home video. [8] This led the film West Beyrouth (Ziad Doueiri, 1998) to become a very popular feature film among Lebanese people at the time. The film highlighted the war through a narrative that combined clips and elements of home video ...
In what amounts to a milestone for the Middle East, Imax has announced plans to release its first-ever Arabic-language feature film. It’s a comedy titled “Ambulance” led by Saudi star ...
Of the first Arab-produced films was the 1923 Egyptian film Barsoum Looking for a Job, [7] and Laila, released in Egypt in 1927, [8] [9] while the first Arabic speaking film was Awlad El-Zawat, also released in Egypt in 1932. [10] Studio Misr, founded in 1935, was the first national studio of its kind in the Arab world. [11]
In its early days, elCinema.com attracted around 700,000 unique visitors per month, quickly becoming a rising star in the Arabic online movie industry. [5] Bassyouny envisioned elCinema.com as the Middle East's largest Arabic movie database, with plans to build a video platform that would target independent movie making without distribution. [4]
Films about the Arab–Israeli conflict (4 C, 14 P) Films set in the Arabian Peninsula (6 C, ... World War I films set in the Middle East (1 C, 15 P)
Saudi films and filmmakers have won numerous awards in both Arab and international film festivals. The first Saudi film to win an international award was "Death of a City," directed by Saudi filmmaker Abdullah Al-Muhaisen. The film received the Nefertiti Prize for Best Short Film in 1977 [32] and was screened at the Cairo Film Festival the same ...
The Marrakech International Film Festival, along with Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival that is scheduled to open next week, are taking place as protests sweep North Africa and the Middle ...
The New York Arab & South Asian Film Festival is partially sponsored by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council with the support of The September 11th Fund, as well as the Columbia University Department of Middle East, South Asian, and African Studies, The School of the Arts Film Division, and the Department of Anthropology, The Arab Film Festival Rotterdam, The Tunisian Cultural & Information ...