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              Film festivals

              Latest updates from global film festivals, including Cannes, Venice, Sundance and Red Sea Film Festival

              Hend Sabry will help choose the winner of the Black Iris Award for Best Arab Feature Narrative Film. AFP

              Hend Sabry to join Amman International Film Festival jury

              CultureJuly 15, 2026
              Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania is part of the jury awarding the best film, actors, director and screenplay at Venice Film Festival 2026. WireImage

              Kaouther Ben Hania to join Venice Film Festival jury after Silver Lion success

              CultureJune 23, 2026
              La Mas Dulce is directed by Moroccan filmmaker Laila Marrakchi. Photo: Mirage Belgium

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              Film & TVMay 21, 2026
              Canadian-Tunisian actress and filmmaker Monia Chokri is jury president of the Camera d'Or award at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival. AFP

              Arab jury members at Cannes, from Youssef Wahbi to Monia Chokri

              CultureMay 18, 2026
              Javier Bardem wears a keffiyeh at the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles in September 2025. Getty Images
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              Film & TVMay 17, 2026
              The Station by Sara Ishaq is inspired by the resourceful women she came across in Yemen. Photo: Cannes Film Festival

              Oscar-nominated Yemeni director's film, 10 years in the making, debuts at Cannes

              CultureMay 17, 2026
              Arthur Harari, who won an Oscar for Anatomy of a Fall, will debut his latest film, The Unknown, in main competition at Cannes. EPA

              Four movies by Middle East and North Africa filmmakers join Cannes 2026 selection

              Film & TVApril 09, 2026
              Marwan Waleed in Safe Exit by Mohammed Hammad. Photo: Pareidolia Productions

              Egyptian film Safe Exit examines generational trauma after ISIS violence

              Film & TVFebruary 24, 2026
              Marie-Rose Osta received the Golden Bear for Best Short Film award for Someday a Child. EPA

              'We will remember everyone who stood against us': Gaza dominates Berlin festival

              Film & TVFebruary 22, 2026
              Hiam Abbass is one of the major guests of honour at the Berlin Film Festival. AFP

              Palestinian actress Hiam Abbass on love, resistance and returning to Berlin

              Film & TVFebruary 16, 2026
              Indian writer Arundhati Roy has withdrawn from the Berlin Film Festival over comments from jury president Wim Wenders that the festival had to 'stay out of politics'. AFP

              Author Arundhati Roy pulls out of Berlinale 'disgusted' by jury's Gaza remarks

              Film & TVFebruary 15, 2026
              Hiam Abbass, left, and Eya Bouteraa in In a Whisper, by Tunisian director Leyla Bouzid. Photo: Unite

              Arab films at Berlinale 2026 show life in a Syrian prison and crisis-hit Beirut

              Film & TVJanuary 21, 2026
              Palestinian actor and filmmaker Mohammad Bakri, centre, at Dubai International Film Festival in 2017 with Sheikh Mansoor bin Mohammed, left, and festival director Masoud Amralla Al Ali. AFP

              Six films of note by late Palestinian actor and director Mohammad Bakri

              Film & TVDecember 26, 2025
              Alia Bhatt, left, and Hend Sabry at the Golden Globes Gala Dinner, at the Red Sea Film Festival in Jeddah. Photo: Red Sea Film Festival

              Hend Sabry and Alia Bhatt receive honorary Golden Globe awards

              Film & TVDecember 11, 2025
              Saudi filmmaker Shahad Ameen screened Hijra in her hometown of Jeddah during the Red Sea International Film Festival. Getty Images

              Hijra director Shahad Ameen returns home with Saudi Arabia’s Oscar contender

              Film & TVDecember 11, 2025
              The President's Cake by Hasan Hadi is Iraq's submission to the 2026 Oscars. Photo: TPC Film

              The President’s Cake review: Oscar hopeful is portrait of life in 1990s Iraq

              Film & TVNovember 24, 2025
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