Funding News
Doha Film Institute Spring 2025: Funding News
Qatar’s Doha Film Institute (DFI) has selected 45 projects for its spring 2025 funding round, including recent Cannes film festival premieres Renoir and Once Upon A Time In Gaza.
Middle East & North Africa
Amman Film Industry Days 2025: Full Line-Up
Amman Film Industry Days (AFID), the industry platform of Amman International Film Festival – Awal Film (AIFF), has selected 18 projects to take part in this year’s Pitching Platforms. Taking place during the sixth edition of AIFF (July 2-10), the Pitching Platforms provide a space for Arab filmmakers and
Chinese-Speaking Markets
CANNES 2025: LIST OF AWARD WINNERS
All the winners from this year’s Cannes film festival, across official selection, Critics Week, Directors Fortnight and the Immersive Competition.
Africa
CANNES 2025 LINE-UP: Titles Selected From Asia, Africa & Midde East
Below is a list of films selected for Cannes Official Selection, Critics Week and Directors Fortnight originating from, set in or mostly filmed in Asia, Africa and the Middle East (or from filmmakers originating from these regions but based elsewhere) with sales agents and nationalities of co-production partners where
Middle East & North Africa
Doha Film Institute Autumn 2024: Funding News
Qatar’s Doha Film Institute (DFI) has selected 47 projects for its autumn 2024 funding round, including 11 from Qatari and Qatar-based creatives. The grantees include Palestinian director Razan Madhoon’s Gaza-set drama The Good Spirit; Moroccan-French filmmaker Sofia Alaoui’s thriller Tarfaya; and The Joyful 1926
Middle East & North Africa
Red Sea Souk 2024: Full Line-Up
Red Sea International Film Festival has selected 38 film and TV projects for this year’s Red Sea Souk Project Market.
Middle East & North Africa
Cairo Film Connection 2024: Full Line-Up
Cairo Film Connection, the funding platform of Cairo International Film Festival, has selected 18 projects from the Arab world for its tenth edition.
Middle East & North Africa
Marrakech Atlas Workshops 2024: Full Line-Up
Marrakech International Film Festival has selected 27 projects for the seventh edition of the Atlas Workshops.
Middle East & North Africa
CineGouna Funding 2024: Full Line-Up
Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival has selected 21 projects from 13 Arab countries for the seventh edition of CineGouna Funding.
Africa
OSCARS 2025: Best International Feature Submissions
Rolling list of submissions for the Best International Feature category of the Oscars from Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
Africa
AUTUMN FESTIVALS 2024: Titles Selected From Asia, Africa & Midde East
UPDATED AUGUST 26: A list of films selected for Locarno, San Sebastian, Venice & Toronto from Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
Middle East & North Africa
World Cinema Fund Summer 2024: Funding News
Berlinale’s World Cinema Fund awarded eight production and two distribution grants in its latest funding round.
Streamlined Insights
Co-producing Across Colonial Borders; Working Between Europe & the Global South
One issue that comes up repeatedly in the conversations I’ve had with producers in Asia and the Middle East over the years is the difficulty of setting up co-productions between ‘established’ (usually meaning Western European) nations and ‘developing’ nations. Of course, there are other established film producing territories
Middle East & North Africa
Amman Film Industry Days 2024: Full Line-Up
Jordan’s Amman International Film Festival selected 16 projects from eight Arab countries for Amman Film Industry Days.
Streamlined Insights
Cannes 2024 Recap Part Two: Hot Titles And Busy Buyers In The Festival & Market
Heading into this year’s Cannes Marché, there were several reasons to believe business would be muted, with slow box office recovery nearly everywhere in the world, rising interest rates and the hangover from the Hollywood strikes and pandemic all cited as reasons for a depressed market. And yet there
Europe
CANNES 2024: LIST OF AWARD WINNERS
All the winners from this year’s Cannes film festival, across official selection and parallel sections.
Middle East & North Africa
Doha Film Institute Spring 2024: Funding News
Qatar’s Doha Film Institute has selected 44 projects from 17 countries for its spring 2024 funding round.
Middle East & North Africa
HBF+Europe Minority Co-Prod & Post 2024: Funding News
Hubert Bals Fund has selected eight projects for its HBF+Europe: Minority Co-pro scheme, and two for its HBF+ Europe: Post scheme.