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14/10/2021 - Films produced on the shores of Mare Nostrum make up the jam-packed programme of the 36th edition of the festival, which kicks off on Friday 15 October

Wide Acquires Joe Ducas Road Movie Her Name Was Jo (EXCLUSIVE) Elsa Keslassy, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Wide has acquired international sales rights to Joe Duca’s road movie “Her Name Was Jo” in the run-up to the European Film Market. North American rights are being handled by Gravitas Ventures for cable, VOD, SVOD and all digital platforms. Duca’s sophomore feature stars newcomer Mary Cate Williams as Jo, a 10-year-old girl who spends her days along the Shenandoah River in Virg...

Indie Sales Acquires Cannes 2020 Title Broken Keys (EXCLUSIVE) Elsa Keslassy, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Indie Sales has acquired Jimmy Keyrouz’s feature debut “Broken Keys,” which was part of Cannes 2020’s official selection and represented Lebanon in the Oscar race. “Broken Keys” is a follow-up of Keyrouz’s short “Nocturne in Black,” winner of a flurry of international awards, including the BAFTA Los Angeles Student Film Award. More from Variety The movie was scored b...

Broken Keys Review: A Musician Defies ISIS in Lebanons Oscar Contender Broken Keys Review: A Musician Defies ISIS in Lebanons Oscar Contender Jimmy Keyrouz combines real-life crisis and potent emotion in the Oscar-submitted expansion of his Student Academy Award-winning short. Alissa Simon, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Director: Jimmy Keyrouz With: Tarek Yaacoub, Rola Beksmati, Julian Farhat, Mounir Maasri, Ibrahim El Kurdi, Adel Karam, Sara Abi Kanaan, Gabriel Yammine. Running time: Runni...

YOUTUBE Yared says he wrote the score for Lebanons best international feature Oscar entry as if he were "inhabited by a flame, to stand up for music." The Hollywood Reporter’s Alex Ritman spoke to Jimmy Keyrouz, director of Broken Keys, and the film’s composer, Gabriel Yared, for a THR Presents Q&A powered by Vision Media. During the half-hour chat, the pair described how an Oscar-winning student short film morphed into a full-length feature — a Cannes 2020 selection and now Lebanon’s...

Parasite made history in 2020 when it became the first foreign-language film ever to win the Academy Award for best picture. Here are Asia’s 10 best hopes this year.

SHARE The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has made some changes to the way films are being shortlisted for the International Feature Film category (formerly named the Best Foreign Language Film) in the 93rd Academy Awards. This is owing to complications caused by the coronavirus pandemic. What happens usually is that the main committee of volunteers from the Academy choose their seven picks, then a smaller International Film Executive Committee adds three more titles – generally ...

SHARE While the pandemic may have shuttered cinemas and put productions on ice around the world, it has also been a history-making 12 months for filmmakers from the Arab world. Sameh Alaas short film I Am Afraid to Forget Your Face, which became the first Egyptian film to be nominated for the Palme dOr, won the top prize at Cannes this year, while filmmaker Amjad Abu Alalas You Will Die at Twenty became the first film to be officially submitted by Sudan for Oscars consideration. Here, we take...

Middle East cinema: The seven must-see films of 2020 Festivals and cinemas shut due to the pandemic, but some movies were still able to make a critical impact From left: Radiograph Of A Family; Ghosts director Azra Deniz Okyay; and Ahmed Hammoud in Zanka Contact (copyright details, see films below) By Published date: 28 December 2020 10:14 UTC | Last update: 2 months 2 weeks ago The express train that is Middle Eastern cinema hit the buf...