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ADFF to Collaborate with New York’s MoMA on Mahfouz Retrospective

07.05.2012 - The Abu Dhabi Film Festival’s efforts to champion the legacy of a great Arab author continue overseas this month when ADFF joins forces with New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) to present a retrospective of films based on the work of... more ›

Movie Stars on Naguib Mahfouz’s Ship

19.03.2012 - A single paragraph by Naguib Mahfouz, or sometimes even a short sentence, can illuminate within the actor the internal world of the character he is about to play, and the psychological dimensions of the human specimen that he will... more ›

Five Documentary Projects Receive Grants from Screen Institute Beirut

09.03.2012 - The Screen Institute Beirut (SIB) film fund for feature length documentaries has announced the five projects to receive grants. Applications were received from 9 Arab countries (Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine,... more ›

AFAC Announces Six Projects to Receive Crossroads Support

01.03.2012 - The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC) announced the first batch of film projects to receive grants from Crossroads, AFAC’s special fund for emerging directors from the Arab world working on films related to “possibility” and “change... more ›

Experimental Arab Cinema: Film as Sensory Experience

20.02.2012 - Many of us expect to walk away from a film with some kind of a cognitive grasp on what just unfolded in front of us, with a neat summation or explanation that we can confidently relay to others. We use aspects of a film like dialogue as... more ›

2011: The Year in Film

19.01.2012 - The year 2011 was a dynamic one for cinema by any measure. It was a massively successful year for commercial movie franchises, while an abundance of great films from new directors and established masters alike kept critics and... more ›

AFAC Announces the 2011 Cinema Grantees

20.12.2011 - The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC) announced today the projects to receive the general cinema grants for the year 2011. AFAC’s general grant for cinema opens between July and October yearly, for film projects of all kind (feature... more ›

Female Arab Voices*

05.12.2011 - A myriad of Arab women documentary filmmakers have started their own revolutions through the issues that they choose to cover, the questions they ask and the connections they establish. Özge Calafato presents an overview. more ›

Abu Dhabi Film Commission Presents 2011 Shasha Grant to Mahmoud Al Massad

Abu Dhabi Film Commission today presented the 2011 Shasha Grant to Mahmoud Al Massad for the project Blessed Benefit "Inshalla Istafadet". The Shasha Grant, now in its fifth year, is the Film Commission’... more ›

Photos: The Arab Spring and Cinema

Filmmakers from across the Middle East and North Africa reflect on the role of cinema in the region’s political and social changes. more ›