El Gouna Film Festival, one of the Middle East’s leading cinema events, is paying tribute to one of Egypt’s most iconic stars ...

Egyptian director Omar El Zohairy’s absurdist social satire “Feathers,” in which the good-for-nothing husband of a woman with three children is turned into a chicken, is the big winner of the sixth ...

He is "the most fascinating director to emerge from Egypt's ever-fertile film culture in the last quarter century," says IFFR ...

Qatar and Jordan make moves, Palestinian cinema and Gaza are drawing attention, Egypt returns to the Un Certain Regard program after nine years, and Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi make their presence felt ...

It isn’t getting any easier for producers of quality Arab movies to find financing, especially within their region where the only titles that consistently work at the box office are commercial ...

Egypt, long hailed as the “Hollywood of the East,” is confronting a new creative paradox as artificial intelligence (AI) ...

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 ...

Egypt has selected Omar Hilal’s comedy Voy! Voy! Voy! as its candidate for Best International Feature Film at the 96th Oscars. Producers Vox Studios, Film Clinic and Image Nation Abu Dhabi announced ...

Netflix's first ever Arabic language film Perfect Strangers was a smash hit in the Middle East when it dropped last month. The film itself is not particularly groundbreaking — it's a remake of a 2016 ...

Director and co-writer Mohamed Diab’s riveting film “Clash” is set entirely in the back of an eight-square-meter Egyptian police van. Unfolding over the course of a single day in 2013, after Mohamed ...

The upbeat state of Arab cinema will be on the screen and in the balmy air at Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival (Sept. 19-27), which is steadily gaining traction in its stated ambition to become a key ...