Dubai-based sales outfit Mad World has acquired worldwide sales rights to Nadim Tabet’s upcoming ghost story In This Darkness I See You ahead of the Cannes market
The Lebanese thriller will join the inaugural slate of Mad World, a new sales and distribution company for Arab-language feature films that was launched yesterday by Mad Solutions.
The supernatural story follows strange events that occur at a construction site in a Lebanese village, where tensions between Syrian workers and local villagers come to a head after one labourer becomes convinced that the site is haunted. The screenplay was co-written by Tabet,...
The Lebanese thriller will join the inaugural slate of Mad World, a new sales and distribution company for Arab-language feature films that was launched yesterday by Mad Solutions.
The supernatural story follows strange events that occur at a construction site in a Lebanese village, where tensions between Syrian workers and local villagers come to a head after one labourer becomes convinced that the site is haunted. The screenplay was co-written by Tabet,...
- 5/10/2024
- ScreenDaily
Our sixth edition of Arab Stars of Tomorrow spotlights rising Middle Eastern and North African talents.
In our sixth edition of Arab Stars of Tomorrow, Screen International spotlights five emerging Middle Eastern and North African talents in the fields of acting and directing.
This year’s selection comprises Saudi writer/director Mohamed Al Salman, Moroccan writer/director Sofia Alaoui, Lebanese writer/director Dania Bdeir, Tunisian actor Adam Bessa and Lebanese actor Ziad Jallad.
The showcase has been organised in cooperation with the Red Sea International Film Festival for the first time. At a launch panel held at the festival on...
In our sixth edition of Arab Stars of Tomorrow, Screen International spotlights five emerging Middle Eastern and North African talents in the fields of acting and directing.
This year’s selection comprises Saudi writer/director Mohamed Al Salman, Moroccan writer/director Sofia Alaoui, Lebanese writer/director Dania Bdeir, Tunisian actor Adam Bessa and Lebanese actor Ziad Jallad.
The showcase has been organised in cooperation with the Red Sea International Film Festival for the first time. At a launch panel held at the festival on...
- 12/5/2022
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
The circumstances in Lebanon have been dire for many years, with the surge of refugees from Syria, whose number now covers ⅔ of the whole population of the country, creating an impossible situation, both for them and the locals. Wissam Charaf, who also doubles as war correspondent, focuses on this issue, through an approach that both highlights it with realism, but also is filled with humor.
Dirty Difficult Dangerous is screening at Red Sea International Film Festival
Ahmed is a Syrian refugee roaming the streets of Beirut, searching for metal objects to be recycled, which is how he survives in life. Having escaped a bomb explosion in Syria, he still carries a rather unusual wound, as his left hand seems to be gradually getting more and more covered in metal. His life is bleak, and his only “solace” is his relationship with an Ethiopian domestic helper, Mehdia, with the two of...
Dirty Difficult Dangerous is screening at Red Sea International Film Festival
Ahmed is a Syrian refugee roaming the streets of Beirut, searching for metal objects to be recycled, which is how he survives in life. Having escaped a bomb explosion in Syria, he still carries a rather unusual wound, as his left hand seems to be gradually getting more and more covered in metal. His life is bleak, and his only “solace” is his relationship with an Ethiopian domestic helper, Mehdia, with the two of...
- 12/4/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
The circumstances in Lebanon have been dire for many years, with the surge of refugees from Syria, whose number now covers ⅔ of the whole population of the country, creating an impossible situation, both for them and the locals. Wissam Charaf, who also doubles as war correspondent, focuses on this issue, through an approach that both highlights it with realism, but also is filled with humor.
“Dirty Difficult Dangerous“ is screening at Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Ahmed is a Syrian refugee roaming the streets of Beirut, searching for metal objects to be recycled, which is how he survives in life. Having escaped a bomb explosion in Syria, he still carries a rather unusual wound, as his left hand seems to be gradually getting more and more covered in metal. His life is bleak, and his only “solace” is his relationship with an Ethiopian domestic helper, Mehdia, with the two of them...
“Dirty Difficult Dangerous“ is screening at Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Ahmed is a Syrian refugee roaming the streets of Beirut, searching for metal objects to be recycled, which is how he survives in life. Having escaped a bomb explosion in Syria, he still carries a rather unusual wound, as his left hand seems to be gradually getting more and more covered in metal. His life is bleak, and his only “solace” is his relationship with an Ethiopian domestic helper, Mehdia, with the two of them...
- 11/13/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Wissam Charaf’s Dirty Difficult Dangerous also won the Europa Cinemas Label.
Graham Foy’s The Maiden has won Venice’s Giornate degli Autori (GdA) Cinema of the Future award.
The Canadian-us film was among seven titles from the GdA sidebar, all first or second features, competing for the €3,000 prize.
Foy’s debut follows three suburban teenagers whose lives are intertwined when one of them disappears and strange occurrences begin cropping up.
The jury was made up of five students from an Italian film school who said: “The film impressed us with its emotional density and the immediacy of its unrestrained,...
Graham Foy’s The Maiden has won Venice’s Giornate degli Autori (GdA) Cinema of the Future award.
The Canadian-us film was among seven titles from the GdA sidebar, all first or second features, competing for the €3,000 prize.
Foy’s debut follows three suburban teenagers whose lives are intertwined when one of them disappears and strange occurrences begin cropping up.
The jury was made up of five students from an Italian film school who said: “The film impressed us with its emotional density and the immediacy of its unrestrained,...
- 9/9/2022
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
The Lebanese film will now receive promotional support from Europa Cinemas.
Wissam Charaf’s Dirty Difficult Dangerous has won the Europa Cinemas Label at Venice Film Festival.
The Lebanese film, which opened the programme, entwines multiple love stories against the backdrop of Lebanon’s near collapse and stars Clara Couturent, Ziad Jallad, Rifaat Tarabey and Darina Al Joundi.
A jury of European exhibitors crowned the film as the best in the Giornate degli Autori (GdA) sidebar.
European cinemas will now receive financial incentives from Europa Cinema if they include Dirty Difficult Dangerous in their programming.
This is Charaf’s second feature film,...
Wissam Charaf’s Dirty Difficult Dangerous has won the Europa Cinemas Label at Venice Film Festival.
The Lebanese film, which opened the programme, entwines multiple love stories against the backdrop of Lebanon’s near collapse and stars Clara Couturent, Ziad Jallad, Rifaat Tarabey and Darina Al Joundi.
A jury of European exhibitors crowned the film as the best in the Giornate degli Autori (GdA) sidebar.
European cinemas will now receive financial incentives from Europa Cinema if they include Dirty Difficult Dangerous in their programming.
This is Charaf’s second feature film,...
- 9/9/2022
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
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