The 13th edition of Diff has revealed its winners with The Dark Wind scooping top prize.
Kurdish director Hussein Hassan’s drama The Dark Wind, about a Yazidi community attacked by Isis fighters, has won best fiction feature in the central Muhr Feature competition devoted to Arab cinema at the 13th edition of the Dubai International Film Festival (Diff).
The feature revolves around a young Yazidi couple - Reko and Pero - who are separated on the eve of their wedding when Isis fighters attack their village.
The prize for best non-fiction feature went to Lebanese film-maker Maher Abi Samra’s A Maid For Each, capturing the inner workings of a Beirut employment agency supplying Asian and African domestic staff.
Lebanese film-maker Eliane Raheb’s Those Who Remain, about an elderly farmer determined to remain on his remote mountain farm, defying age and the political tensions around him, won the jury prize.
It was the...
Kurdish director Hussein Hassan’s drama The Dark Wind, about a Yazidi community attacked by Isis fighters, has won best fiction feature in the central Muhr Feature competition devoted to Arab cinema at the 13th edition of the Dubai International Film Festival (Diff).
The feature revolves around a young Yazidi couple - Reko and Pero - who are separated on the eve of their wedding when Isis fighters attack their village.
The prize for best non-fiction feature went to Lebanese film-maker Maher Abi Samra’s A Maid For Each, capturing the inner workings of a Beirut employment agency supplying Asian and African domestic staff.
Lebanese film-maker Eliane Raheb’s Those Who Remain, about an elderly farmer determined to remain on his remote mountain farm, defying age and the political tensions around him, won the jury prize.
It was the...
- 12/15/2016
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Cairo-based Mad Solutions has picked up five titles in Diff’s Muhr Feature competition for distribution in the region.
Cairo-based pan-Arab distributor and promotional agency Mad Solutions touches down at Diff this year with a record 15 festival titles, including five contenders in the Muhr Feature competition.
“This is our busiest Diff ever in terms of how many of the festival titles we have on our slate,” said Mad founder and CEO Alaa Karkouti.
Competition titles recently acquired by Mad for distribution in the region include Tunisia’s Hedi and Foreign Body, as well as documentary Egyptian Jeanne d’Arc from Egypt’s Iman Kamel.
Mad is also working with Mohamed Hefzy’s Film Clinic-Indie Film Distribution to distribute Ali, The Goat, And Ibrahim, the debut feature of Egyptian film-maker Sherif El Bendary, and Withered Green, which are also screening in the Muhr Feature competition.
The company also has a strong presence in Diff’s shorts selection...
Cairo-based pan-Arab distributor and promotional agency Mad Solutions touches down at Diff this year with a record 15 festival titles, including five contenders in the Muhr Feature competition.
“This is our busiest Diff ever in terms of how many of the festival titles we have on our slate,” said Mad founder and CEO Alaa Karkouti.
Competition titles recently acquired by Mad for distribution in the region include Tunisia’s Hedi and Foreign Body, as well as documentary Egyptian Jeanne d’Arc from Egypt’s Iman Kamel.
Mad is also working with Mohamed Hefzy’s Film Clinic-Indie Film Distribution to distribute Ali, The Goat, And Ibrahim, the debut feature of Egyptian film-maker Sherif El Bendary, and Withered Green, which are also screening in the Muhr Feature competition.
The company also has a strong presence in Diff’s shorts selection...
- 12/8/2016
- ScreenDaily
The initiative, highlighting five emerging film talents from the Arab world, is presented at Dubai International Film Festival.
Screen International has unveiled its first ever Arab Stars of Tomorrow, spotlighting five of the hottest up-and-coming talents from across the Arab world.
A partnership with Dubai International Film Festival (Diff), the showcase flags actors and directors who are expected to make waves on the festival circuit in coming years
The showcase is curated by Screen’s France and Middle East correspondent Melanie Goodfellow, who conducted in-depth research including interviews with leading producers, distributors, sales agents and festival programmers with knowledge of the region.
“There is so much talent in this region that it was difficult selecting just five names,” said Goodfellow. “In their different ways, each of them has something special that makes them worth watching in the future.”
The five selected talents include Lebanese director Mounia Akl, whose short film Submarine about a world drowning in rubbish...
Screen International has unveiled its first ever Arab Stars of Tomorrow, spotlighting five of the hottest up-and-coming talents from across the Arab world.
A partnership with Dubai International Film Festival (Diff), the showcase flags actors and directors who are expected to make waves on the festival circuit in coming years
The showcase is curated by Screen’s France and Middle East correspondent Melanie Goodfellow, who conducted in-depth research including interviews with leading producers, distributors, sales agents and festival programmers with knowledge of the region.
“There is so much talent in this region that it was difficult selecting just five names,” said Goodfellow. “In their different ways, each of them has something special that makes them worth watching in the future.”
The five selected talents include Lebanese director Mounia Akl, whose short film Submarine about a world drowning in rubbish...
- 12/8/2016
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
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