Also showing are "The Little Sister," a Cannes-honored drama about the identity struggle of a French-Algerian lesbian ...

In a short film set in Lebanon, where marital rape is not a crime, filmmaker Farah Shaer tackles one of Arab society's ...

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 ...

Christian Petzold‘s “Undine,” for which Paula Beer won the Silver Bear for best actress at the Berlin Film Festival, has won the Arab Critics’ Award for European Films. Petzold received the award ...

Cast has been set and shoot scheduled for the Arabic-language remake of Italian box office smash hit Perfect Strangers. Lebanese actress and filmmaker Nadine Labaki (Capernaum) has been cast alongside ...

The Red Sea Film Fund recipients — including 'The Sea Ahead' from Oscar-nominated director Ely Dagher — were announced from the Venice Film Festival. By Alex Ritman U.K. Correspondent Saudi Arabia’s ...

Look for Arab cinema and lots of docs at festivals this week. First up is the always impressively programmed Arab Film ...