The 28th annual Arab Film Festival is underway in San Francisco, marking its continued status as the oldest Arab film festival outside the Arab world. The festival, which runs until Sunday, November 3 ...

The independent Beirut-based production house Abbout Productions, led by Georges Schoucair and Myriam Sassine, will receive the Raimondo Rezzonico Award at the 78th edition of the Locarno Film ...

Capernaum' director Nadine Labaki discusses working with non-actors in 'Capernaum,' dealing with Western funds and ...

Although he wanted to become an actor since he was a child, Akiki was 23 when he enrolled on a cinema studies course at USEK ...

Producers and film professionals from the Arab region discussed their perception of a “quota system” at festivals as well as distribution challenges, during a panel held by the World Cinema Fund in ...

Palestinian films at this year’s Arab Film Festival offer diverse takes on life in the region. Twenty-three films from across the Arab world tell stories of empathy, friendship, intergenerational ...

The San Diego Arab Film Festival, presented by the nonprofit organization Karama, will showcase films over the next two weekends at the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park, with a pair of ...

Mizna's 19th Arab Film Festival features more than 20 films over the course of five days across the Twin Cities. NINA MOINI: A film festival highlighting the work and culture of Arab and SWANA people- ...

Look for Arab cinema and lots of docs at festivals this week. First up is the always impressively programmed Arab Film Festival, presented by the San Francisco-based Arab Film and Media Institute, ...

Georges Schoucair and Myriam Sassine of the Beirut-based production company will also present two movies, Mounia Akl‘s 'Costa Brava, Lebanon' and Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige’s 'Memory Box.' ...

The independent Beirut-based production house Abbout Productions, led by Georges Schoucair and Myriam Sassine, will receive the Raimondo Rezzonico Award at the 78th edition of the Locarno Film ...