Egyptian director Omar El Zohairy’s absurdist social satire “Feathers,” in which the good-for-nothing husband of a woman with three children is turned into a chicken, is the big winner of the sixth ...

El Gouna Film Festival, one of the Middle East’s leading cinema events, is paying tribute to one of Egypt’s most iconic stars ...

Filmmaker and journalist Dorothée-Myriam Kellou has announced the creation of a new collective, Rawiyat – Sisters in Film, at the El Gouna Film Festival. Speaking on the “Women’s Empowerment Through ...

Netflix's first ever Arabic language film Perfect Strangers was a smash hit in the Middle East when it dropped last month. The film itself is not particularly groundbreaking — it's a remake of a 2016 ...

He is "the most fascinating director to emerge from Egypt's ever-fertile film culture in the last quarter century," says IFFR festival director Vanja Kaludjercic.

Egypt has selected Omar Hilal’s comedy Voy! Voy! Voy! as its candidate for Best International Feature Film at the 96th Oscars. Producers Vox Studios, Film Clinic and Image Nation Abu Dhabi announced ...

Egypt, long hailed as the “Hollywood of the East,” is confronting a new creative paradox as artificial intelligence (AI) ...

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Prominent Egyptian producer and distributor Mohamed Hefzy’s Film Clinic is headed to the Venice Film Festival with a trio of titles hailing from Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Algeria. The strong Lido ...

2004-04-01 04:00:00 PDT Cairo-- Arab governments across the Middle East are bending or breaking their own censorship rules for "The Passion of the Christ," the Mel Gibson film that sparked fears of ...