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

Netflix’s first ever Arabic film, a remake of the Italian hit “Perfect Strangers,” has quickly hit No. 1 in several countries across the Middle East and won critical acclaim, but it’s also been the ...

CAIROCAIRO — A Lebanese father tells his teenage daughter she is free to choose whether to have sex with her boyfriend despite his reservations. An Egyptian wife discreetly slips off her black, lacy ...

It isn’t getting any easier for producers of quality Arab movies to find financing, especially within their region where the only titles that consistently work at the box office are commercial ...

The new film has sparked intense debate on both sides, especially in Egypt, where a politician has accused it of inciting "homosexuality and betrayal”. By Alex Ritman U.K. Correspondent Perfect ...

Egypt's best foreign-language film submission caused the director to come under fire from all sides in a country where two recent revolutions and the dramatic rise and fall of the Muslim Brotherhood ...

Romanian film producer and academic Gabi Suciu visited Egypt this summer to foster new collaborations in film education and cultural exchange, highlighting the growing ties between the two countries’ ...

Egypt’s Film Clinic, the prominent indie shingle headed by Cairo Film Festival president Mohammed Hefzy, has scored the rare distinction of being the Middle East and North Africa region distributor of ...

The upbeat state of Arab cinema will be on the screen and in the balmy air at Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival (Sept. 19-27), which is steadily gaining traction in its stated ambition to become a key ...

In the three decades between Israel’s founding and the 1979 peace treaty with Egypt, the relationship between the two neighbors was tense. And yet, Israelis eagerly turned on their TVs every Friday ...