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Cairo Int. Film Festival
Palestine
Yousri Nasrallah

The Return of the Cairo International Film Festival

200 miles from the Egypt-Gaza border, the city on the Nile prepares its festival comeback.
Al-Takdir staff
2024 selections
Cairo Int. Film Festival
Project market

Cairo Film Connection reveals line up of 18 projects from 10 countries

CFC is part of Cairo Industry Days and serves as a platform for discussions, networking, workshops, and panels aimed at highlighting and supporting Arab talent.
Al-Takdir staff
Location filming
The UAE

Filming in the UAE

The UAE has become a major shooting destination for international producers.
Al-Takdir staff
Khalid Mansour directs
Venice Film Festival

Seeking Haven for Mr. Rambo

In this love/hate letter to Cairo, Khalid Mansour's sensitive debut feature ‘Seeking Haven for Mr. Rambo' pays tribute to a generation of young Egyptians shackled by economic and societal frustrations.
Al-Takdir staff
Almost Certainly False
Turkish short film
Venice Film Festival

Almost Certainly False

Coming of age is tough in Almost Certainly False, a deft exploration of identity and duty in the life of a young Syrian immigrant dreaming of leaving Istanbul for Europe.
Al-Takdir staff
Exhibition news
IMAX theaters
Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia’s muvi Cinemas adds four new Imax locations

Three of the new locations are scheduled to open by the end of 2024, with an additional location to follow in 2025.
Al-Takdir staff
Karlovy Vary IFF
Munich Film Festival
Refugee camp stories
Xoftex

Xoftex

Writer-director Noaz Deshe's ambitious horror-tinged drama about the surreal absurdism of life in a refugee camp is messy and muddled but commendably original.
Al-Takdir staff
Abdellah Taïa
Cabo Negro
Karlovy Vary premiere
Queer drama

Cabo Negro

In writer-director Abdellah Taïa's ode to youthful rebellion 'Cabo Negro', two heartbroken queer Moroccans take refuge in a luxury villa to confront old traumas and share solidarity.
Al-Takdir staff
Backstage
Mediterrane Film Festival
Morocan film
Tunisian film

Backstage

Mysterious personal dramas unfold off-stage when a modern dance company has a bus break-down traveling to Marrakech in Tunisian codirectors Afef Ben Mahmoud and Khalil Benkirane’s intelligently avant-garde on-the-road drama, ‘Backstage’.
Al-Takdir staff
Brandt Andersen
Mediterrane Film Festival
The Stranger's Case
Yasmine Al Massri

The Stranger’s Case

Confronting the world refugee crisis head-on in highly dramatic scenes that refuse to let go, Brandt Andersen’s etched-with-an-axe ‘The Strangers’ Case’ is a human disaster movie that passionately describes a chain reaction of real-life horror.
Al-Takdir staff
Bye Bye Tiberias
Lina Soualem
Palestine
Palestinian Oscar submission

Lina Soualem explores themes of exile through generations in ‘Bye Bye Tiberias’

Lina Soualem is touring global festivals with her very personal documentary 'Bye Bye Tiberias', in "a moment of great tragedy and despair".
Al-Takdir staff
Mo Harawe
Somali cinema
The Village Next to Paradise

Somali Filmmaker Mo Harawe Makes History

When 'The Village Next to Paradise' bowed in Un Certain Regard, Mo Harawe became the first Somali filmmaker to compete at Cannes.
Al-Takdir staff
Norah
Saudi cinema
Tawfik Alzaidi

Norah

Tawfik Alzaidi’s classically narrated, slow-burn drama 'Norah' is a tribute to art and artists in socially conservative societies like 1990s Saudi Arabia.
Al-Takdir staff
Amr Gamal
Asmae El Moudir

‘The Mother of All Lies’ wins Malmö Arab Film Festival

Other big winners include Amr Gamal's Yemeni drama 'The Burdened', Lina Soualem's 'Bye Bye Tiberias' and Kaouther Ben Hania's 'Four Daughters'.
Al-Takdir staff
ACC
Reviews

A New Home for Arab Film Reviews

Al-Takdir will offer more international coverage for films produced in the MENA region.
Al-Takdir staff