For the fourth year in a row, the City of The Hague embraces the Arab Women’s Film Festival, starting on Friday 7 March 2014 for the duration of three days. The film festival will take place at Filmhuis Den Haag and The American Book Center, and this year’s programme will include 14 films and the presence of 14 guests: filmmakers, journalists and critics from abroad.  The activities of the fourth edition under the theme of ‘change makers’ will begin on Friday 7 Ma...

"Covariance" by Dawn Westlake will represent the US in the 5th annual Baghdad International Film Festival in Iraq from October 6-10, 2013. The film was made with three 5Ds through the generosity of Canon USA, Inc. Shot by Francesco Uboldi and edited by Brandon Bondehagen, the film stars David Razowsky and Dawn Westlake. Music is by Gregory Johnson of Acoustic Labs. This is the film's Middle East premiere and the 33rd festival acceptance for "Covariance". It has been nomin...

  For the third year, we are thrilled to announce the dates and locations of the TROPFEST Arabia 2013 Filmmaking workshops. This year’s road show of Filmmaking workshops will be taking place across the Middle East and North Africa and will start on Tuesday, 30th April in Dubai, followed by Abu Dhabi, Muscat, Doha, Jeddah, Amman, Beirut, Baghdad, Kuwait, Cairo, Alexandria, Marrakech and Casablanca. Participation in the workshops is free of charge. The workshops aim at providing aspir...

Three leading Arab film festivals today agreed that the Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) will chair the proposed Arab Film Festival Guild, the first of its kind in the Arab world. The purpose of the proposed guild is to increase cooperation and exchange of expertise between festivals in everything from selection of stars to programming, position the Arab film industry internationally, and coordinate with international festivals to increase the presence of Arab films. Bi-annual meetings w...

Larry Levene, the director of the film, will be among the guests of the opening acto of AMAL’06 Festival Santiago de Compostela, 13 de october 2006.- A history of mutual discovery and intercultural dialogue, the documentary “César y Zaín” will be in charge of opening the International Euro-Arab Film Festival AMAL’06. The british director Larry Levene will be present on the opening act. He is known for films such as Una nube sobre Bhopal (2001) and El hambre del mundo explicada a mi hi...