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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
Casting Arabia

Why Casting in the MENA Region Sucks!

Actor Eyas Shanaah, the founder of Casting Arabia, talks about real-life casting in the MENA region in his first column for Al-Takdir.
Al-Takdir staff
Hotels
NEOM
Saudi Arabia

MARRIOTT TO OPEN RITZ-CARLTON RESERVE IN TROJENA

Marriott International and city-of-the-future NEOM are planning an ultra-luxury resort in secluded Trojena, Saudi Arabia.
Al-Takdir staff
NEOM
Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia Opens Doors to Shooting on Location for TV and Film

AlUla and NEOM have no shortage of filming locations: vast deserts and sand dunes, mountains and valleys, lakes, coastlines and ancient ruins.
Al-Takdir staff
Berlin Film Festival
Palestine-Israel

No Other Land

Beginning in 2019, a quartet of Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers in the Occupied Territories start documenting Israel’s appropriation of the land and its escalation until just after the start of the current juggernaut in Gaza.
Al-Takdir staff
Marrakech International Film Festival
Tilda Swinton

‘Yes I Wear Rags at Home.’ Tilda Swinton Talks ‘Real Actors,’ Fashion

British actress and Oscar winner Tilda Swinton reveals a new side of herself in the new musical 'The End'.
Al-Takdir staff
Loris Lai
Palestine-Israel

I bambini di Gaza (Roll)

A Palestinian and an Israeli boy bond over surfing in a vivid if familiar story from the Second Intifada that feels slightly unreal.
Al-Takdir staff
Asmae El Moudir
Karlovy Vary
Morocco Oscar submission 2024

The Mother of All Lies

Moroccan documentary maker Asmae El Moudir blends the personal with the political in her formally impressive, puppet-driven, prize-winning family memoir.
Al-Takdir staff
Marrakech International Film Festival
Omar Hilal
Voy voy voy

Advertising Vet Omar Hilal Talks Foreign Oscar Nom in Marrakech For Debut Feature Voy!Voy!Voy!

Hilal’s comedy opened in Egypt in September holding the number one spot at the box office for two months
Al-Takdir staff