Andrea Riseborough stars as a traumatised aid worker.
Paris-based sales company Totem Films has sealed deals on Zeina Durra’s drama Luxor into the key territories of France and the UK.
Eve Gabereau’s Modern Films has acquired UK rights while Paris-based Rezo has signed for France.
The film stars Andrea Riseborough as a traumatised aid worker who reconnects with an archeologist and former lover in the Egyptian city of Luxor, with much of the story unfolding against the backdrop of its complex of ancient monuments and temples.
It is Durra’s second feature after the 2010 work The Imperialists Are Alive.
Paris-based sales company Totem Films has sealed deals on Zeina Durra’s drama Luxor into the key territories of France and the UK.
Eve Gabereau’s Modern Films has acquired UK rights while Paris-based Rezo has signed for France.
The film stars Andrea Riseborough as a traumatised aid worker who reconnects with an archeologist and former lover in the Egyptian city of Luxor, with much of the story unfolding against the backdrop of its complex of ancient monuments and temples.
It is Durra’s second feature after the 2010 work The Imperialists Are Alive.
- 6/16/2020
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Service plans to roll out in 140 countries.
New curated film SVoD platform Nowave is due to launch in France and the UK this June, with an ambition to roll out across 140 countries.
“The idea is to explore a monthly original theme through a selection of carefully curated films, that are sometimes rare or unreleased theatrically, but featured in the most renowned festivals, and handpicked by true experts,” said founder Bérengère Dastarac-Waked.
She plans to tie-in the cinema offering with editorial content in which personalities from the worlds of art and fashion, authors, great chefs, and journalists will share their visions and the films that have inspired their lives and careers.
Other partners include French tech entrepreneur Benjamin Böhle-Roitelet, founder of ekito, film producer and manager Daniel Ziskind, French-British critic, Anne-Laure Bell and producer Marianne Lère.
New curated film SVoD platform Nowave is due to launch in France and the UK this June, with an ambition to roll out across 140 countries.
“The idea is to explore a monthly original theme through a selection of carefully curated films, that are sometimes rare or unreleased theatrically, but featured in the most renowned festivals, and handpicked by true experts,” said founder Bérengère Dastarac-Waked.
She plans to tie-in the cinema offering with editorial content in which personalities from the worlds of art and fashion, authors, great chefs, and journalists will share their visions and the films that have inspired their lives and careers.
Other partners include French tech entrepreneur Benjamin Böhle-Roitelet, founder of ekito, film producer and manager Daniel Ziskind, French-British critic, Anne-Laure Bell and producer Marianne Lère.
- 5/18/2016
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Post-Egyptian revolution drama set in police van opened Un Certain Regard.
Paris-based Pyramide International has locked down sales on Egyptian director Mohamed Diab’s post-revolution drama Clash, which opened Un Certain Regard this year.
The film has sold to Scandinavia (Scanbox), Spain (Golem), Switzerland (Cineworx), Portugal (Midas Filmes), Benelux (Amstelfilm), Colombia (Cine Colombia), Greece (Weird Wave), Taiwan (Swallow Wings), ex-Yugoslavia (2I), Brazil (Imovision) and China VOD (Lemon Tree).
There is also understood to be a deal for Turkey in the works, as well as strong interest from Poland and Australia.
Pyramide Distribution will release the film in France on September 14.
“Opening Un Certain Regard was a great launch pad for the film and buyers have responded with enthusiasm to Mohamed’s fresh, young vision of post-revolutionary Egypt’s splintered society,” said Pyramide sales chief Agathe Valentin.
Set during violent demonstrations in Cairo at the end of Muslim Brotherhood-backed President Mohamed Morsi’s reign in 2013, the film follows...
Paris-based Pyramide International has locked down sales on Egyptian director Mohamed Diab’s post-revolution drama Clash, which opened Un Certain Regard this year.
The film has sold to Scandinavia (Scanbox), Spain (Golem), Switzerland (Cineworx), Portugal (Midas Filmes), Benelux (Amstelfilm), Colombia (Cine Colombia), Greece (Weird Wave), Taiwan (Swallow Wings), ex-Yugoslavia (2I), Brazil (Imovision) and China VOD (Lemon Tree).
There is also understood to be a deal for Turkey in the works, as well as strong interest from Poland and Australia.
Pyramide Distribution will release the film in France on September 14.
“Opening Un Certain Regard was a great launch pad for the film and buyers have responded with enthusiasm to Mohamed’s fresh, young vision of post-revolutionary Egypt’s splintered society,” said Pyramide sales chief Agathe Valentin.
Set during violent demonstrations in Cairo at the end of Muslim Brotherhood-backed President Mohamed Morsi’s reign in 2013, the film follows...
- 5/18/2016
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Producer of Un Certain Regard opener Clash lines up new projects, including Lewis Carroll adaptation In The Land Of Wonder.
Egyptian producer Mohamed Hefzy [pictured] is developing a Cairo-set version of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland plunging the main character into the chaos of the city’s streets.
The project, In The Land Of Wonder, is the second film by Nadine Khan after her debut feature Chaos, Disorder, which won the jury prize at the Dubai International Film Festival in 2012.
The daughter of respected Egyptian filmmaker Mohamed Khan spent a decade working as a second unit and assistant director for the likes of Yousry Nasrallah and Nabil Ayouch before making her first film.
Hefzy is in Cannes this year with Mohamed Diab’s buzzed about Un Certain Regard opener Clash about a group of people locked in a police van for 24 hours after they arrested during violent demonstrations in Cairo at the end of Islamist President...
Egyptian producer Mohamed Hefzy [pictured] is developing a Cairo-set version of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland plunging the main character into the chaos of the city’s streets.
The project, In The Land Of Wonder, is the second film by Nadine Khan after her debut feature Chaos, Disorder, which won the jury prize at the Dubai International Film Festival in 2012.
The daughter of respected Egyptian filmmaker Mohamed Khan spent a decade working as a second unit and assistant director for the likes of Yousry Nasrallah and Nabil Ayouch before making her first film.
Hefzy is in Cannes this year with Mohamed Diab’s buzzed about Un Certain Regard opener Clash about a group of people locked in a police van for 24 hours after they arrested during violent demonstrations in Cairo at the end of Islamist President...
- 5/16/2016
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: New film by Amr Salama (Excuse My French) to shoot this spring.
Egyptian indie production powerhouse Film Clinic is gearing up to launch financing on Sheikh Jackson, a bittersweet drama about an Islamic fundamentalist cleric with a secret passion for Michael Jackson music.
Film Clinic chief Mohammed Hefzy said: “The day Michael Jackson dies it changes his life. He hits a wall. Suddenly, he is incapable of performing with his wife, crying or giving the emotional sermons for which he was once renowned.”
Amr Salama - whose credits include the prize-winning AIDS drama Asmaa and coming-of-age comedy Excuse My French, which recently swept the board at Egypt’s equivalent of the Oscars – is set to direct.
As the man undergoes therapy, a series of flashbacks explore his teenage years: from his early love of Jackson’s music to an unrequited love story and family dispute to his life-changing embrace of the ultra-conservative Salafism movement, which frowns...
Egyptian indie production powerhouse Film Clinic is gearing up to launch financing on Sheikh Jackson, a bittersweet drama about an Islamic fundamentalist cleric with a secret passion for Michael Jackson music.
Film Clinic chief Mohammed Hefzy said: “The day Michael Jackson dies it changes his life. He hits a wall. Suddenly, he is incapable of performing with his wife, crying or giving the emotional sermons for which he was once renowned.”
Amr Salama - whose credits include the prize-winning AIDS drama Asmaa and coming-of-age comedy Excuse My French, which recently swept the board at Egypt’s equivalent of the Oscars – is set to direct.
As the man undergoes therapy, a series of flashbacks explore his teenage years: from his early love of Jackson’s music to an unrequited love story and family dispute to his life-changing embrace of the ultra-conservative Salafism movement, which frowns...
- 10/27/2015
- ScreenDaily
Paris-based industry veteran, who also works with actor Amr Waked, deepens ties with Egypt.
Paris-based producer Daniel Ziskind has signed to act as the European representative of Egyptian Mohamed Hefzy’s Cairo-based production house Film Clinic.
Under the accord, Ziskind will support Film Clinic’s co-production and sales activities in Europe.
“I’m very happy to join the Film Clinic family,” Ziskind said. “The company has a great line-up and strategy.”
First feature
The first project under the collaboration will be Mohamed Diab’s drama Clash, his second film after the much-praised Cairo 678 tackling sexual harassment through the experiences of women on a bus.
Set against the backdrop of violent demonstrations that erupted at the end of former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi’s Islamist reign in summer of 2013, Clash revolves around two groups of opposing protestors who find themselves trapped in the same police van as fighting rages around them.
“It’s a timely...
Paris-based producer Daniel Ziskind has signed to act as the European representative of Egyptian Mohamed Hefzy’s Cairo-based production house Film Clinic.
Under the accord, Ziskind will support Film Clinic’s co-production and sales activities in Europe.
“I’m very happy to join the Film Clinic family,” Ziskind said. “The company has a great line-up and strategy.”
First feature
The first project under the collaboration will be Mohamed Diab’s drama Clash, his second film after the much-praised Cairo 678 tackling sexual harassment through the experiences of women on a bus.
Set against the backdrop of violent demonstrations that erupted at the end of former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi’s Islamist reign in summer of 2013, Clash revolves around two groups of opposing protestors who find themselves trapped in the same police van as fighting rages around them.
“It’s a timely...
- 4/9/2015
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Film that premieres in competition at Abu Dhabi stars Egyptian actor Amr Waked as a gangster who challenges a child organ trafficker.
Pan-Arab distributor Falcon Films has acquired Middle East and North Africa rights to Egyptian director Ibrahim El-Batout’s El Ott ahead of its premiere in competition at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival (Adff) next week.
The picture, previously titled The Cat in English, stars Egyptian actor Amr Waked as a gangster who goes up against a notorious mobster who is kidnapping street children to harvest their organs.
“His mission is to bring down him and his gang,” Waked told ScreenDaily.
The actor also produced the film alongside fellow actor and producer Sahah Al Hanafy through their Cairo-based Zad Communication.
It is the second collaboration between Waked, Al Hanafy and El-Batout after Winter of Discontent, capturing the events leading up to the Egyptian revolution in 2010, which was Egypt’s foreign language Oscar submission this year...
Pan-Arab distributor Falcon Films has acquired Middle East and North Africa rights to Egyptian director Ibrahim El-Batout’s El Ott ahead of its premiere in competition at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival (Adff) next week.
The picture, previously titled The Cat in English, stars Egyptian actor Amr Waked as a gangster who goes up against a notorious mobster who is kidnapping street children to harvest their organs.
“His mission is to bring down him and his gang,” Waked told ScreenDaily.
The actor also produced the film alongside fellow actor and producer Sahah Al Hanafy through their Cairo-based Zad Communication.
It is the second collaboration between Waked, Al Hanafy and El-Batout after Winter of Discontent, capturing the events leading up to the Egyptian revolution in 2010, which was Egypt’s foreign language Oscar submission this year...
- 10/24/2014
- ScreenDaily
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