Arab female film directors are reshaping Arab cinema by telling untold stories and claiming space in a traditionally ...

Arab female film directors have helped change the landscape of Arab cinema in recent years, presenting stories that haven't ...

Arab female film directors have helped change the landscape of Arab cinema in recent years, presenting stories that haven't been told before and claiming space in an industry in a region that rarely ...

Of all the attendees at the Red Sea Film Festival, only jury member Nadine Labaki can lay claim to having directed the most successful Arabic film in history. “Capernaum,” Labaki’s third feature after ...

Lebanese director Nadine Labaki, whose “Capernaum” is the highest-grossing Arabic and Middle Eastern film of all time with over $68 million worldwide, spoke about “how difficult it is” to make cinema ...

2025 was a year that posed a lot of questions for movie lovers: Did the success of Sinners prove that there was still a mass audience hungry for original (read: non-IP) stories on a blockbuster level?

Six out of the eight Best International Feature submissions from Arab countries are directed by women, each having won awards at major festivals. While its submission process certainly has its faults, ...

While its submission process certainly has its faults, the Best International Feature category has only gotten more and more exciting each year in the past decade since the Academy reconfigured its ...

This week sees the launch of the fifth edition of the Red Sea International Film Festival, welcoming a host of Hollywood stars to historic Jeddah. The festival, which runs from Thursday until 13 ...

Quentin Tarantino has selected his top 20 movies of the 21st century, with Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down coming in first place and Lee Unkrich’s Toy Story 3 ranking second. The Oscar-winning director ...

The star-studded opening ceremony, which also included Sean Baker, Kirsten Dunst, Jessica Alba and Queen Latifah, made clear that the recent controversy over the Riyadh Comedy Festival has done little ...

EXCLUSIVE: Mad Distribution has taken MENA rights for Moroccan director Meryem Benm’Barek’s Behind The Palm Trees which world premiered in Competition at the Marrakech Film Festival over the weekend.