Beirut-based Abbout Productions, led by Georges Schoucair and Myriam Sassine, will be celebrated by the Locarno Film Festival with its Raimondo Rezzonico Award dedicated to producers who epitomize the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “BornStars,” a catchy comedy about five cash-strapped students who start making porn movies in Beirut, is set to premiere in the ...

After years of honing her craft as a Lebanese actress, writer and director, Caroline Labaki takes the long-awaited leap into ...

Paradise City Sales has boarded “A Sad and Beautiful World,” Lebanese filmmaker Cyril Aris’s movie which is slated to world premiere at Venice Days. “A Sad and Beautiful World” is headlined by ...

EXCLUSIVE: Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival has launched a new initiative supporting and promoting emerging directing, writing and producing talents in the MENA region and unveiled the first ...

Beirut-based writer-director Sarah Francis explores the ordinary and "the small battles" in her new film, which features a synthesizer score and interludes and debuts at the Rotterdam Film Festival.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cyril Aris’ “A Sad and Beautiful World,” a Beirut-set love story which represented Lebanon in the Oscar race, has secured North ...

Newly launched Dubai-based sales company Mad World has acquired worldwide rights to Lebanese auteur Ghassan Salhab’s genre-bending next project “The Last City,” which is set in a collapsing Beirut ...

Producing an independent film is a challenge at the best of times: Beirut-based producer Georges Schoucair has shot two tightly financed indie features and helped launch a new arthouse cinema this ...

EXCLUSIVE: Dubai-based global management and production company 75East has signed Lebanese writer-director Nay Tabbara, whose short film Ebb & Flow won the Student Visionary Award at its Tribeca world ...