The Doha Film Institute (Dfi) has selected 44 projects for its 2024 spring grants cycle, including Mahdi Fleifel’s To A Land Unknown, which has its world premiere in Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes next Wednesday, May 22.
Fleifel’s fiction feature debut is a crime thriller about a Palestinian refugee living on the fringes of Athens society, who seeks revenge on the smuggler who ripped him off.
Scroll down for the full list of grants
Palestinian-Danish filmmaker Fleifel studied at the UK’s National Film and Television School, and previously made 2012 feature-length documentary A World Not Ours, which played at the Berlinale and Cph:dox.
Fleifel’s fiction feature debut is a crime thriller about a Palestinian refugee living on the fringes of Athens society, who seeks revenge on the smuggler who ripped him off.
Scroll down for the full list of grants
Palestinian-Danish filmmaker Fleifel studied at the UK’s National Film and Television School, and previously made 2012 feature-length documentary A World Not Ours, which played at the Berlinale and Cph:dox.
- 5/17/2024
- ScreenDaily
This year’s edition of the Marrakech Intl. Film Festival includes an unprecedented number of Moroccan films, including seven films in the new Morocco Panorama sidebar, and a tribute to local actor/director Jillali Ferhati.
When the festival was launched in 2001, Moroccan cinema was in a relatively fragile state and one of the fest’s key goals was to reinforce the local industry, which now seems to be paying dividends.
Over recent years, Moroccan cinema has enjoyed significant popular success at home and also rising international acclaim, as shown by the fact that several of the films playing in the Morocco Panorama have also screened at fests such as Berlin, Cannes and Venice.
Local filmmakers include both powerful male and female helmers, as reflected in the Morocco Panorama.
The fest’s artistic director Christoph Terhechte says that he hopes its international guests will discover the best of recent Moroccan cinema,...
When the festival was launched in 2001, Moroccan cinema was in a relatively fragile state and one of the fest’s key goals was to reinforce the local industry, which now seems to be paying dividends.
Over recent years, Moroccan cinema has enjoyed significant popular success at home and also rising international acclaim, as shown by the fact that several of the films playing in the Morocco Panorama have also screened at fests such as Berlin, Cannes and Venice.
Local filmmakers include both powerful male and female helmers, as reflected in the Morocco Panorama.
The fest’s artistic director Christoph Terhechte says that he hopes its international guests will discover the best of recent Moroccan cinema,...
- 12/2/2018
- by Martin Dale
- Variety Film + TV
Eleven films to play in competition.
Estonia’s Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (November 16 – December 2) has added twelve titles to its First Feature Competition.
Among the new entries are Spanish director Victor Cabaco’s A March To Remember, a 1976-set thriller following a radio journalist during a workers’ strike in a provincial capital.
From India is Hello Arsi, chronicling the day in the life of two strangers who have met on a highway and go on to share a car ride and conversation. Director Sambit Mohanty passed away last year soon after shooting completed.
Eleven of the new titles are in competition,...
Estonia’s Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (November 16 – December 2) has added twelve titles to its First Feature Competition.
Among the new entries are Spanish director Victor Cabaco’s A March To Remember, a 1976-set thriller following a radio journalist during a workers’ strike in a provincial capital.
From India is Hello Arsi, chronicling the day in the life of two strangers who have met on a highway and go on to share a car ride and conversation. Director Sambit Mohanty passed away last year soon after shooting completed.
Eleven of the new titles are in competition,...
- 10/26/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
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