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Arab Film Distribution presents films about the Arab world. The Seattle-based company distributes its films in North America, and was founded in 1990 by the Seattle Arab & Iranian Film Festival, which was in turn created for the 1990 Goodwill Games. In 2005, the company launched a theatrical subsidiary, Typecast Entertainment. [1] [2]
The Cairo International Film Festival is a world-class annual film festival in Cairo, Egypt. Established in 1976, it was the first film festival to be held in the Arab world and was the only international competitive feature film festival in the West Asia and Africa recognized by the FIAPF until Fajr International Film Festival became another west asian festival accredited by FIAPF.
A human rights film festival is a subject specific film festival that presents films on topics related to human rights. [1] They are a type of activist film festival. [2] Many human rights film festivals show documentary films, however, some also include fiction, animated and short films. [3]
However, while there are no doubts that toppling Assad marks the end of a horrific era, Alaa Karkouti, CEO and co-founder of prominent Arab film distribution and marketing and talent agency MAD ...
The film is set against the backdrop of collective scars left by the country’s 1992-2002 civil war, known as the Black Decade. ... Pan-Arab distributor Mad Solutions has acquired world rights to ...
As conflicts escalate in the Middle East and North Africa, from Palestine to Yemen and Sudan, filmmakers have seen an increase in solidarity within the local creative community to find ways to ...
Years later, the Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation was founded in 1989 to help cultivate a cinema culture of Arab films in an attempt to establish the film industry in Jordan. [43] Moreover, in 2003 the Royal Film Commission was established that was also an attempt to encourage the production of Jordanian films. [42]
Saudi Arabia has a robust presence this year at the Venice Film Festival, where there are six Arab films backed by the Red Sea Film Festival’s foundation on display across various sections ...