At this year’s Cairo Intl. Film Festival, Egyptian filmmakers arrive not just to premiere their films, but to stake a claim in the country’s cinematic future. Once the beating heart of Arab cinema, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Prominent Egyptian producer and distributor Mohamed Hefzy’s Film Clinic is headed to the Venice Film Festival with a trio of ...

Just over a year after it was pulled as the opening short film of the 2024 edition of Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival by the country’s censorship board, The Last Miracle had been cleared to screen at ...

Egyptian box office may be down this summer (the season’s 13 new offerings, produced at a sum of $35 million, have earned just $22 million so far), but filmmakers from the region have found a formula ...

Filmmakers Nada Riyadh and Ayman El Amir spent so much time following an all-girl theatre troupe in a remote Egyptian village that at one point someone tried to sell them a house. "He thought we were ...

Egypt, which is home to the Middle East and North Africa’s biggest film industry, will not participate in the Best International Film Oscar race this year. According to Egyptian media reports, ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. An Iranian film dismissing former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat as a ...

DUBAI (Reuters) - The first cinematic output covering protests in Egypt and Tunisia this year recreates the euphoria of revolutions that many thought would never happen, but reveals signs of the ...