Egyptian box office may be down this summer (the season’s 13 new offerings, produced at a sum of $35 million, have earned just $22 million so far), but filmmakers from the region have found a formula ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just over a year after it was pulled as the opening short film of the 2024 edition of Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival by the ...

Prominent Egyptian producer Mohamed Hefzy is branching out into Saudi Arabia by setting up an outpost of his prolific Film Clinic shingle – which has six titles at Saudi’s Red Sea Film Festival – in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A report published by the Cairo Film Connection, during Cairo Industry Days (Nov. 16-20), provides key data on recent trends in ...

“Aladdin” star Mena Massoud, who is a Canadian actor of Egyptian heritage, recently starred in — and produced — his first Arabic-language film “In Broad Daylight.” In the action movie, he plays an ...

Early in "Eagles of the Republic," main character George Fahmy (Fares Fares), a (fictional) superstar in the Egyptian film industry so popular and bankable that others (half-mockingly) bestow upon him ...

March marks the anniversary of the death of Ahmed Zaki, one of Egyptian cinema’s most transformative actors. Nearly two decades after his passing in 2005, his unforgettable portrayals—from historical ...

Cairo Industry Days – the industry sidebar of the Cairo Intl. Film Festival – is returning with an enhanced co-production market, an ambitious slate of projects in the Cairo Film Connection, a wide ...

A large number of Arab and international movies had been filmed in 2022, but their makers preferred to release them in the new year. The genres of those films vary between comedy, thriller, and action ...

EXCLUSIVE: The Los Angeles Film Critics Association is gearing up toward a special yearlong screening series in collaboration with the Egyptian Theatre that will commence in January 2025. In ...

From heartfelt journeys to sharp social satires, this year’s Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF) — running from November 12 to 21, 2025 — pulses with creativity, courage, and cinematic flair. The ...

Just over a year after it was pulled as the opening short film of the 2024 edition of Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival by the country’s censorship board, The Last Miracle had been cleared to screen at ...