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Homecoming through Film: a Moroccan Journey in Adios Carmen

‘Bruxellois’ Mohamed Amin Benamraoui’s first feature-length film Adios Carmen (2013) has just won the Prix du Public at the 14th Mediterranean Film Festival in Brussels, and has been pleasing crowds...

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Beneath her eyes: a history of North African women in film

‘Fist clenched, eyes ablaze, hair in the wind, her body moving defiantly to the sound of the drums and cries of the crowd around her, an Algerian woman dances in the street, taunting the French troops...

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Assia Djebar’s Forgotten Films

Assia Djebar’s Forgotten Films: La Nouba des femmes du Mont Chenoua (1978) and La Zerda, ou les chants de l’oubli (1982) On 6 February 2015, Assia Djebar passed away in Paris. Djebar was one of the...

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Jordanian Animation: Modelling Local Content and Foreign Investment

A recent Jordanian animated film, The Street Artist by Mahmoud Hindawi, has been winning awards all over the world. This is remarkable, as Jordan, a country where cinema culture is young but growing...

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System_D: a Festival of Diversity and the City in Brussels

Brussels is another country. Or so we often feel in the rest of Belgium. And yet it is the centre of our country, seen as the essence of Belgium when it comes to foreign attitudes towards the country....

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Ramadan tip: Koran by Heart

‘Koran by Heart’ is an HBO documentary that shows the story of three children on their journey to a Qur’an competition in Egypt. 110 kids are chosen and arrive in Cairo for the world’s oldest Koran...

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Mutiny of Colours: cinematic crowdfund campaign to save street art in Iran

Mutiny Of Colours is a feature-length documentary about street art and graffiti in Iran. The film depicts the daily life of five Iranian street artists, in four episodes. They risk their freedom while...

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Narrative Terrorism and the Porcelain Palestinian Non-State

While much of Palestinian narrative cinema deals with the past, and the devastation of 1948, and documentaries tend to look at nostalgia and emotional attachment to the homeland, the experimental video...

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The Adventures of Prince Achmed: the Revival of an Oeuvre

What has always fascinated me about cinema is its manner of transcending all boundaries imposed by time. As with all artistic expressions, the revival of an oeuvre reminds us how even the earliest of...

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Hiam Abbass: ‘Sometimes they call me ‘the engaged actress’, but I’m mainly...

In a new theater monologue the French-Palestinian actress Hiam Abbass is playing a prostitute in the Arab world during the period of the Arab Spring. The work of Abbass, both as an actress and...

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