Cairo-based Mad Distribution has acquired Jonathan Millet’s Critics’ Week opener Ghost Trail from mk2 Films, Somali director Mo Harawe’s Un Certain Regard drama The Village Next To Paradise from Totem Films and Anne-Marie Jacir’s upcoming All Before You for release in the Middle East and North Africa.
They are three of 30 titles secured by Mad Distribution for Mena territories, which also include Saif Hammash’s Palestinian short Deer’s Tooth, selected for La Cinef, and Rayane Mcirdi’s Algerian-French short After The Sun, which plays in Directors’ Fortnight.
The distribution arm of indie studio Mad Solutions plans...
They are three of 30 titles secured by Mad Distribution for Mena territories, which also include Saif Hammash’s Palestinian short Deer’s Tooth, selected for La Cinef, and Rayane Mcirdi’s Algerian-French short After The Sun, which plays in Directors’ Fortnight.
The distribution arm of indie studio Mad Solutions plans...
- 5/18/2024
- ScreenDaily
Sci-fi thriller Slave (Abed) by Mansour Assad and Raven Song by Mohamed Al Salman took the top prizes at the ninth edition of the Saudi Film Festival, running from May 4 to 12 in the city of Dammam in eastern Saudi Arabia.
Slave (Abed) won the festival’s Golden Palm for best film, while Raven Song clinched the jury prize.
Mansour Assad’s Slave revolves around a couple who make a movie that results in anger and backlash from society. They are given the option of staying in the present or going back in time to rectify the action that enraged their community.
Slave also clinched best screenplay for Rulan Hasan and editing for Assad.
Raven Song follows a man who is wrongly diagnosed with a brain tumor after he starts having hallucinations. The film also walked away with Golden Palms for best cinematography and actor for Asim Al-Auad.
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Slave (Abed) won the festival’s Golden Palm for best film, while Raven Song clinched the jury prize.
Mansour Assad’s Slave revolves around a couple who make a movie that results in anger and backlash from society. They are given the option of staying in the present or going back in time to rectify the action that enraged their community.
Slave also clinched best screenplay for Rulan Hasan and editing for Assad.
Raven Song follows a man who is wrongly diagnosed with a brain tumor after he starts having hallucinations. The film also walked away with Golden Palms for best cinematography and actor for Asim Al-Auad.
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- 5/12/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Titles include a new film from Bong Joon Ho.
Asia Bombay Rose (Ind)
Dir: Gitanjali Rao
Nurtured by Cannes Critics’ Week’s Next Step programme and produced by Cinestaan International with France’s Les Films d’ici, Rao’s Bollywood-set animation interweaves various romantic stories. After five years in production, it is coming to fruition and could debut in Cannes or Annecy.
Contact: Cinestaan International
Idol (S Kor)
Dir: Lee Su-jin
Rotterdam Tiger Award-winner Lee (for Han Gong-ju) is now in post-production on his second film Idol. The thriller stars Han Seok-kyu and Seol Kyung-gu as two fathers on...
Asia Bombay Rose (Ind)
Dir: Gitanjali Rao
Nurtured by Cannes Critics’ Week’s Next Step programme and produced by Cinestaan International with France’s Les Films d’ici, Rao’s Bollywood-set animation interweaves various romantic stories. After five years in production, it is coming to fruition and could debut in Cannes or Annecy.
Contact: Cinestaan International
Idol (S Kor)
Dir: Lee Su-jin
Rotterdam Tiger Award-winner Lee (for Han Gong-ju) is now in post-production on his second film Idol. The thriller stars Han Seok-kyu and Seol Kyung-gu as two fathers on...
- 1/10/2019
- by Jean Noh & Melanie Goodfellow & Charles Gant
- ScreenDaily
Cairo International Film Festival (Ciff) co-production platform event meted out $100,000 worth of prizes.
Egyptian director Sherif El Bendary’s female suppression drama Spray and Iraqi director Koutaiba Al-Janabi’s experimental thriller The Woodman shared the top $20,000 Badya prize at the fifth edition of the Cairo Film Connection, running Nov 26-28.
The co-production platform, at the heart of the Cairo International Film Festival (Ciff) industry programme (Nov 20-29), showcased 16 projects from across the Arab world, 10 in development and six in post-production.
The winners were representative of the increasingly adventurous and diverse stories and styles emerging out of the Arab world’s burgeoning indie film scene.
Egyptian director Sherif El Bendary’s female suppression drama Spray and Iraqi director Koutaiba Al-Janabi’s experimental thriller The Woodman shared the top $20,000 Badya prize at the fifth edition of the Cairo Film Connection, running Nov 26-28.
The co-production platform, at the heart of the Cairo International Film Festival (Ciff) industry programme (Nov 20-29), showcased 16 projects from across the Arab world, 10 in development and six in post-production.
The winners were representative of the increasingly adventurous and diverse stories and styles emerging out of the Arab world’s burgeoning indie film scene.
- 11/30/2018
- ScreenDaily
An ample assortment of new Arab cinema will be on display at the revived Cairo Film Connection, where new projects by established helmers, including Egypt’s Osama Fawzy (“I Love Cinema”), Iraq’s Koutaiba Al-Janabi (“Leaving Baghdad”), and Syria’s Soudade Kaadan (“The Day I Lost My Shadow”), will be vying for more than $100,000 in prizes with works from promising up and comers.
The 17 Cfc projects in various stages from Egypt, Lebanon, Libya, Tunisia, Jordan, Palestine Algeria, Syria, and Morocco were selected out of 107 submissions. They comprise dramas, docs, and potentially groundbreaking genre films with gravitas such as black comedy “Inshallah a Boy,” by Jordanian first-timer Amjad Al Rasheed, about a widow who due to Islamic Sharia law finds herself in dire need of a male child to stop her in-laws from taking possession of her home.
Al Rasheed, who is a Berlinale Talents alumni, said in press notes that...
The 17 Cfc projects in various stages from Egypt, Lebanon, Libya, Tunisia, Jordan, Palestine Algeria, Syria, and Morocco were selected out of 107 submissions. They comprise dramas, docs, and potentially groundbreaking genre films with gravitas such as black comedy “Inshallah a Boy,” by Jordanian first-timer Amjad Al Rasheed, about a widow who due to Islamic Sharia law finds herself in dire need of a male child to stop her in-laws from taking possession of her home.
Al Rasheed, who is a Berlinale Talents alumni, said in press notes that...
- 11/13/2018
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
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