Exclusive: Jordanian actress Saba Mubarak stars and produces timely film about Syrian refugees in Turkey.
Cairo-based distributor Mad Solutions has acquired Arab world rights to Turkish director Andac Haznedaroglu’s refugee drama The Guest: Aleppo-Istanbul starring Jordanian actress Saba Mubarak as a Syrian woman attempting to get Greece.
The film is a first-ever Turkish-Jordanian co-production and involves Istanbul Film Productions, Andac Film Productions, Istanbul Digital (ID) and Mubarak’s Amman-based company Pan East Media, which also received the backing of the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
Mubarak plays Meryem, a Syrian woman fleeing her war-town in the company of eight-year-old Lena and her younger sister, the children of neighbours who have perished in the fighting. The cast also features a number of Syrian amateur actors.
“The issue of Syrian refugees, not only in Turkey, but all over the world, is one of the most important issues in the world today, In my view...
Cairo-based distributor Mad Solutions has acquired Arab world rights to Turkish director Andac Haznedaroglu’s refugee drama The Guest: Aleppo-Istanbul starring Jordanian actress Saba Mubarak as a Syrian woman attempting to get Greece.
The film is a first-ever Turkish-Jordanian co-production and involves Istanbul Film Productions, Andac Film Productions, Istanbul Digital (ID) and Mubarak’s Amman-based company Pan East Media, which also received the backing of the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
Mubarak plays Meryem, a Syrian woman fleeing her war-town in the company of eight-year-old Lena and her younger sister, the children of neighbours who have perished in the fighting. The cast also features a number of Syrian amateur actors.
“The issue of Syrian refugees, not only in Turkey, but all over the world, is one of the most important issues in the world today, In my view...
- 5/18/2017
- ScreenDaily
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) kicks off its 16th annual Doc Fortnight on Thursday, a 10-day festival that includes 20 feature-length non-fiction films and 10 documentary shorts. This year’s lineup includes four world premieres and a number of North American and U.S. premieres.
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The festival is far from the only major North American showcase for non-fiction cinema. Festivals ranging from Hot Docs to True/False have played key roles in the expanding documentary festival circuit. However, Doc Fortnight has maintained its own niche on the scene, by aiming to expose undiscovered stories and filmmakers, screening a range of documentaries from around the world and capturing the ways in which artists are pushing the boundaries of non-fiction filmmaking.
“It’s not an industry festival, there aren’t awards, and distributors aren’t all coming looking to buy,...
Read More: 2017 New Directors/New Films Announces Full Lineup, Including ‘Patti Cake$,’ ‘Beach Rats,’ ‘Menashe’ and More
The festival is far from the only major North American showcase for non-fiction cinema. Festivals ranging from Hot Docs to True/False have played key roles in the expanding documentary festival circuit. However, Doc Fortnight has maintained its own niche on the scene, by aiming to expose undiscovered stories and filmmakers, screening a range of documentaries from around the world and capturing the ways in which artists are pushing the boundaries of non-fiction filmmaking.
“It’s not an industry festival, there aren’t awards, and distributors aren’t all coming looking to buy,...
- 2/15/2017
- by Chris O'Falt and Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
A crying child, an explosion, mounds of rubble and jumbled rebar are common images to emerge from Gaza, a strip of land with 26 miles of coastline and a defunct harbor. Germany-based filmmakers Philip Gnadt and Mickey Yamine are betting that Gaza and surfing — a sport/lifestyle often associated with shimmering seas and coral sunsets — have never been coupled together.
"These people are trapped in the world's largest open-air prison and ruled by war," Gnadt told The Hollywood Reporter, speaking from the Dubai International Film Festival, which closed Wednesday...
"These people are trapped in the world's largest open-air prison and ruled by war," Gnadt told The Hollywood Reporter, speaking from the Dubai International Film Festival, which closed Wednesday...
- 12/15/2016
- by Alexandra Cheney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Gaza Strip has been called “the world’s largest open-air prison,” but amidst the media’s coverage of the area, it’s easy to forget that it borders the Mediterranean, and the beautiful sea has brought its own share of surfers to traverse the coastline. Philip Gnadt and Mickey Yamine’s new documentary “Gaza Surf Club” enters the world of the surfers on the Gaza Strip and the social forces of the region offer great challenges for the young generation who desperately want to feel the open water. Watch an exclusive clip from the film below and check out the poster as well.
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In a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, Gnadt and Yamine say that, “The film is not a report on Middle Eastern society; it’s a story.
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In a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, Gnadt and Yamine say that, “The film is not a report on Middle Eastern society; it’s a story.
- 9/9/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
The Toronto International Film Festival has nearly completed its slate announcement this year — expect a few stragglers to be announced in the coming days, but this is about the size of it — rounding out its lineup with today’s announcement of its Docs, Midnight Madness, Vanguard and Tiff Cinematheque picks. And what a group this is, including plenty of returning favorites and some very exciting new names.
Tiff’s Docs section features a collection of works from award-winning directors including Steve James, Raoul Peck, Errol Morris and Werner Herzog. Leonardo DiCaprio even pops up for a “rousing call to action on climate change” in “The Turning Point,” made in collaboration with Academy Award winner Fisher Stevens and already picked up by National Geographic.
Read More: Tiff Reveals First Slate of 2016 Titles, Including ‘Magnificent Seven,’ ‘American Honey,’ ‘La La Land’ and ‘Birth of A Nation’
The beloved Midnight Madness section offers...
Tiff’s Docs section features a collection of works from award-winning directors including Steve James, Raoul Peck, Errol Morris and Werner Herzog. Leonardo DiCaprio even pops up for a “rousing call to action on climate change” in “The Turning Point,” made in collaboration with Academy Award winner Fisher Stevens and already picked up by National Geographic.
Read More: Tiff Reveals First Slate of 2016 Titles, Including ‘Magnificent Seven,’ ‘American Honey,’ ‘La La Land’ and ‘Birth of A Nation’
The beloved Midnight Madness section offers...
- 8/9/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
While there may only be a brief teaser available for Philip Gnadt's Gaza Surf Club it is one hell of a tease. Gnadt's film explores the surfing community in one of the world's least likely surfing destinations - the war torn Gaza strip - and in doing so quickly and effortlessly puts a vital human face on a conflict that has raged so long that it has become little more than background noise to most. It would appear that by making a film in Gaza and about Gaza without making it about Palestine versus Israel, Gnadt really fresh and exciting here and - at absolute worst - has captured some truly striking imagery. We'll be keeping an eye on this as it makes it way...
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- 8/3/2016
- Screen Anarchy
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