France’s Cinemed Pageant to Showcase Tasks From Arab World With Aflamuna / Beirut DC

Cinemed, the Mediterranean Cinema Movie Pageant, is partnering up with Lebanese movie org Aflamuna / Beirut DC to launch a brand new co-production and co-financing initiative geared toward high-profile initiatives from the Arab world.

The brand new program, which can be backed by France’s Nationwide Movie Board and is a part of the competition’s trade showcase Cinemed Conferences, will current seven initiatives involving 22 Arab international locations, together with Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Liban, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Syria, amongst others.

All chosen initiatives are at the moment in growth and are being introduced by filmmakers who’ve beforehand directed a minimum of one brief movie.

Christophe Leparc, head of Cinemed, pointed that the competition already had a profitable collaboration with Beirut DC/Aflamuna throughout the occasion Beirut Cinema Platform which takes place in March in Lebanon.

“This new collaboration stems from our need to hitch our complementary expertise and experience: Beirut DC is well-established within the Arab movie group, whereas Cinemed boasts an enormous community of producers, crew members and French and European establishments that are doubtlessly inquisitive about discovering new initiatives – fiction and documentary — from the Arab world,” Leparc continued.

Considered one of France’s largest movie festivals, Cinemed was launched in 1979 and presents greater than 200 films yearly, starting from feature-length movies, shorts, documentaries and animated movies.

Right here is the record of initiatives which can be offered on Oct. 25 throughout the Cinemed Conferences:

“100 Days Earlier than The Finish of the World,” Dima El-Horr

“And Me Too,” Sondos Shabayek,

“Brainless,” Hicham Lasri

“Entre nous deux… Marseille,” Dima AL-Joundi

“The Lacking Camel,” Cheikh N’Diaye

“Mnema,” Selim Gribaa

“Wonderland,” Raed Andoni