Christian Petzold‘s “Undine,” for which Paula Beer won the Silver Bear for best actress at the Berlin Film Festival, has won the Arab Critics’ Award for European Films. Petzold received the award ...

Cairo-based film marketing and distribution outfit MAD Solutions is launching MAD Rising Celebrity, a new unit dedicated to launching up-and-coming film and TV acting talents from across the Arab ...

Cast has been set and shoot scheduled for the Arabic-language remake of Italian box office smash hit Perfect Strangers. Lebanese actress and filmmaker Nadine Labaki (Capernaum) has been cast alongside ...

The Red Sea Film Fund recipients — including 'The Sea Ahead' from Oscar-nominated director Ely Dagher — were announced from the Venice Film Festival. By Alex Ritman U.K. Correspondent Saudi Arabia’s ...

Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident and Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value are among five titles nominated for Europe’s Lux ...

Palestinian director Laila Abbas' female empowerment drama "Thank You for Banking With Us!" won best film and director at the 9th Critics Awards for Arab Films at an event held on the sidelines of the ...

Christian is president of Karama, a San Diego nonprofit that focuses on issues of the Arab and Islamic world, and chair of the San Diego Arab Film Festival. He lives in Mission Hills. Bittar is an ...

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 ...

Berlin Film Festival artistic director Carlo Chatrian and executive director Mariëtte Rissenbeck unveiled the International Competition and Encounters lineups on Monday for the festival’s 73rd edition ...