She was the sole winner from the SWANA region to be awarded In Competition this year.

While Molly Manning Walker's debut feature 'How To Have Sex' walked away with the top prize, Arab and African film also garnered top awards.

'Harka' leading man Adam Bessa as well as Tunisian filmmaker Youssef Chebbi also walked away with awards, during the ceremony held at the Arab Cinema Center.

Golden Globes voting body now totals 310 voters and reflects 58% diversity, with MIME's own E. Nina Rothe joining the latest recruits.

The Cairo Film Festival president and actor will receive a special tribute during the opening ceremony of the festival, and will also present a masterclass for the Swedish city's audience.

Watch the official trailer and discover the poster of this gem which won Best Screenplay in Cannes, where it world premiered in May of 2022.

Among the MENA titles are 'The Swimmers' and 'Holy Spider', with Polish entry 'EO' also predictably on the list.

With titles from Palestine, Syria, Iran, Israel and Kuwait, there is something for everyone on the list, from art house film lover to blockbusters fans.

Among the 15 shortlisted for Best International Feature Film are 'Joyland', 'Cairo Conspiracy' and 'Holy Spider', plus Lebanese Live Action Short 'Warsha'.

Hint: they are six Sardinian donkeys, male and female and they will break your heart!

"There are flavorings of Roy Andersson and Wes Anderson with more than a whiff of Wojciech Has," writes Jay Weissberg in his review of the feature directorial debut by Mohamed Al-Salman -- this year's Saudi submission to the Oscars.

When all was said and done, the audiences were the winners at this year's Red Sea IFF.

Beautiful, legendary, iconic -- there aren't enough words in the dictionary to describe Egyptian megastar Yousra and she'll be the recipient of the top honorary award in Jeddah.

It was a great time for Arab cinema at this year's Cairo International Film Festival, but also groundbreaking independent world cinema -- and awards night proved it.

Jerzy Skolimowski's Polish-Italian co-production won the Jury Prize ex-aequo in Cannes and is Poland's entry to the 95th Academy Awards.

UK Oscar submission 'Winners' by Hassan Nazer also received two nominations for the upcoming British Independent Film Awards, with the prizes to be handed out on December 4th.

The festival, which further champions independent cinema through their Raindance Discovery Award at the BIFAs, runs from October 26th to November 5th in London.

BAFTA confirmed that Aberdeen-based, British-Iranian writer/director Hassan Nazer's film is the UK selection for next year's Oscars' International Feature Film award.

'The Blue Caftan' is the sophomore feature by Maryam Touzani, written in collaboration with and produced by Touzani's real-life husband and filmmaker Nabil Ayouch -- and the pair represents the dream couple of MENA cinema.

Shorts 'It's Nice in Here', 'It Feels Personal' and 'Canary' also walked away the winners for Best Short Film Awards in the Bader, Hilal and Mohaq categories, respectively.

The film features a group of Arab and Jewish women collaborating in a video workshop and will now become Israel’s official selection for consideration in the nomination for next year's Best International Feature Oscar.

And in his typically daring style, filmmaker Basil Khalil accepted the award in a video showing him holding a bottle of bleach -- standing in for the Oscar of course!

A Syrian-Palestinian filmmaker living in Sweden announces he has won prizes, withdrawn from a controversial festival and cultural organizations applaud his actions -- too bad it's all fake news.

And as a reward for their hard work, the talented filmmakers spent a week in Venice, attending festival activities and getting used to being in the spotlight. Inshallah.

The Italian-Algerian filmmaker will accept the honorary award on September 30th during the Gala Premiere of his latest film 'Bones and All' and will hold a public Masters talk on October 1.

Among them, the Iranian serial killer story 'Holy Spider', Palestinian helmer Maha Haj's 'Mediterranean Fever' and Tarik Saleh's 'Boy from Heaven'.

The Cairo International Film Festival revealed that the world-renowned film director will be receiving its prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award during the festival’s 44th edition, running from 13 – 22 November, 2022.

The Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF) has announced that TV and film director Kamla Abou Zekry will be awarded their prestigious Faten Hamama Excellence Award at the upcoming 44th edition of the festival, scheduled to kick off on November 13th, 2022.

The winning films of the Black Iris Awards in the three Arab competitive categories were handed out at the closing and awards ceremony of the third edition.

An independent jury selected nine film projects to receive cash and in-kind awards in the development and post-production categories, in addition to four projects receiving the Amman Film Market Awards, out of the 18 Jordanian and Arab competing projects.

They include Iranian thespian Amir Jadidi, Hindi superstar Kajol, 'Samsara' filmmaker Pan Nalin, Pakistani documentarian Mohammed Ali Naqvi, Egyptian composer Hesham Nazih and 'Tala'vision' helmer Murad Abu Eisheh.

Fresh from his win at yet another film festival, garnering the Audience Award in Portugal, we spoke to Jordanian filmmaker Zaid Abu Hamdan about his inspiration, the Arab version of 'The Golden Girls' and how he felt when a critic called his film a bad word...

The former teen idol, now an accomplished actor and filmmaker, will hold a public talk while at the festival and will receive his award at a ceremony held on Thursday, August 4 in the iconic Piazza Grande.

The Teatro Romano di Fiesole will bestow on the Iranian helmer their Masters Film Award 2022.

While Ruben Östlund walked away with the Palme d'or 2022 top prize for 'Triangle of Sadness', it was still a great night for SWANA cinema.

This year's Un Certain Regard Competition included 20 feature films – seven of which are first features also competing for the Caméra d’or.

While Will Smith's outburst threatened to take the spotlight away from a well directed and classy night, there were still a few cool takeaways from this year's Academy Awards.

Now in its sixth year, the Khayrallah Prize is an annual award given by the Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies based at North Carolina State University to identify, award and publicly honour those whose original artistic productions and projects focus on any aspect of life in Lebanon and the diaspora.

The audience of Berlinale has voted and the 24th Panorama Audience Award for the best feature film has gone to 'Baqyt' (Happiness) by Askar Uzabayev, while 'Aşk, Mark ve Ölüm' (Love, Deutschmarks and Death) by Cem Kaya won in the category Panorama Dokumente.

French-Tunisian filmmaker Mabrouk El Mechri's latest starring Sabrina Ouazani, and Maryam Tafakory's short tackling the ban on touching in Iranian cinema, win the audience VPRO Big Screen Award and Ammodo Tiger Short Award respectively in Rotterdam.

On January 19th, Marc Baréty, the French Ambassador in Egypt bestowed the “Legion of Honour” medal to Marianne Khoury in the presence of a small community of Egyptian personalities at the French Embassy in Cairo.

The Jordanian-German short film is the only Arab submission shortlisted to this year's Academy Awards.

Why is it that when an Arab film causes people to think, it's immediately subjected to an insidious mechanism of cancel culture?

Ardebili's short live action film 'Forbidden to See Us Scream in Tehran' is eligible for consideration for this year's Academy Awards and is a beautiful example of determination and talent always winning out over borders and politics.

In a ceremony held at the Cairo Film Fest, the European Film Promotion (EFP) together with the Arab Cinema Center (ACC) announced '107 Mothers' by Péter Kerekes as the winner of the Best Film award for the Arab Critics’ Award for European Films.

Cannes Ecrans Juniors screens a selection of international feature films that are of particular interest to young people because they develop themes or stage universes likely to confront them with the world and other cultures -- while allowing them to discover cinematic art.

The Grand Jury Award winners at AFI Fest for Live Action and Animated Short will be eligible for the 2021 Best Live Action Short and Best Animated Short Academy Awards®.

The shortlist of 15 finalists to the Academy Awards is scheduled to be announced on December 21, 2021, while the final five nominees are scheduled to be announced on February 8, 2022.

The winning films in the competitive sections were announced and received the GFF’s cash prizes, which amounted up to $244,000.

The novelist fled Zanzibar in the 1960s to settle in the UK and began writing as a 21-year-old refugee.

Israeli filmmaker Eran Kolirin was the big winner in Tuesday night’s annual Ophir Awards ceremony.

The feature debut by Mounia Akl stars Lebanese filmmaker Nadine Labaki and Palestinian actor Saleh Bakri.

While women celebrated in bulk at this year's festival on the Lido, cinema from MENA walked away with a few gems of recognition -- not enough in our opinion!

The WTAs shine a spotlight on trailers and creative marketing concepts that bring entertainment products to life

Included in Orizzonti Competition and Orizzonti Extra are Mohamed Diab's latest 'Amira', and 'Costa Brava, Lebanon' by Mounia Akl, starring Nadine Labaki, as well as Ana Lily Amirpour's latest film which premieres in Competition.

Studio Soho Distribution is proud to bring the film to UK cinemas on the 24th September.

With a wardrobe designed alongside Louis Vuitton's artistic director Virgil Abloh, the American filmmaker headed the Cannes Film Festival Competition Jury and through a multi-coloured wardrobe, created a cinematic bridge between his native USA and France.

After winning the Nespresso Grand Prize, the film will compete in the Feature Narrative Competition of the 5th edition of El Gouna Film Festival

Initially scheduled for the spring of 2020, the inaugural edition of the highly anticipated Saudi festival in Jeddah has opened their call for film submissions.

Philistine Films' beloved producer Ossama Bawardi shares with MIME his journey to LA to attend the 93rd Academy Awards ceremony with an Oscar-nominated short

'The Present' by Farah Nabulsi is up for a Best Live Action Short Film Oscar

Farah Nabulsi's work, starring Saleh Bakri, wins Best British Short Film and helps brings attention to the Palestinian cause

If you crave something from the Region, now is the perfect time to watch Netflix.

UK Betting company BetVictor has revealed its odds for the Academy Awards on April 26

Saleh Bakri opens up about Farah Nabulsi's 'The Present' which is nominated for the Best Live Action Short Film at the 93rd Academy Awards this April.

With Kaouther Ben Hania's 'The Man Who Sold His Skin', Tunisia receives its first Oscar nod - a historic moment for Arab cinema