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The 7th Arab Film Festival Zurich announces program, with special tributes to Sudanese and Saudi cinema

E. Nina Rothe March 24, 2025

The five day event, which takes place every two years and celebrates the best of Arab cinema, will be held from 2nd to 6th April 2025 in the Swiss city.

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In Cinema, Festival Tags Arab Film Festival Zurich, AFFZ, Arab cinema, Aida Schlaepfer Alhassani, Michel Bodmer, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Goodbye Julia, Mohamed Kordofani, Amjad Abu Alala, You Will Die at Twenty, Ahd Kamel, My Driver and I, Red Sea International Film Festival, Roula Dakheelallah, Mishaal Tamer, Abu Bakr Shawky, Hajjan, Screen International, NEOM, Mehdi M. Barsaoui, Aïsha, Sofia Alaoui, Animalia, Palestine, Scandar Copti, Happy Holidays, Ajami, Asmae El Moudir, The Mother of All Lies, Backstage, Khalil Benkirane, Afef Ben Mahmoud and Khalil Benkirane, Afef Ben Mahmoud, Tunisa, Morocco, Tunisia, Seeking Haven for Mr. Rambo, Khaled Mansour, Meryam Joobeur, Who Do I Belong To, Brotherhood, Animation Lab at AFFZ, Virtual Reality
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Five films, and much more, to watch at this edition of the New Zealand International Film Festival

E. Nina Rothe July 24, 2020

Going forward, if we’re going to learn anything about the pandemics and how to handle them, it’s going to come from New Zealand. And in the film festival world, if we’re going to find a way to move forward, it will also come from this edition of the New Zealand International Film Festival, under the direction of Marten Rabarts.

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In Cinema, Festival, The Diaries Tags New Zealand International Film Festival, NZIFF, Marten Rabarts, film, film festivals, Covid 19, Martin Margiela, Martin Margiela in his own words, Reiner Holzemer, 1982, Oualid Mouaness, Nadine Labaki, Lebanon, The Perfect Candidate, Haifaa Al Mansour, Saudi Arabia, You Will Die at Twenty, Amjad Abu Alala, Sudan, Venice Film Festival, The Girl on the Bridge, Leanne Pooley, New Zealand, suicide, depression, Jazz Thornton
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Fatma Al Remaihi, CEO of the Doha Film Institute, flanked by the managing team of the Ajyal Film Festival

Fatma Al Remaihi, CEO of the Doha Film Institute, flanked by the managing team of the Ajyal Film Festival

Doha's Ajyal Film Festival aims to make educated audiences out of today's youth

E. Nina Rothe November 5, 2019

I believe wholeheartedly that we are what we watch. It’s been my mission to find works of art on the big screen — and on the little one now through Netflix and the likes — that will make life better. I mean, we can all remember that moment, as children, walking out of a theater having watched our favorite character or cartoon on the big screen and feeling an extra bounce in our step. I still experience that these days, whenever I watch something really special. I walk out of the darkened theater into the light of day — as a film writer most of my viewings are done during the day — feeling like anything is possible.

So when the Doha Film Institute kicked off their Ajyal Film Festival in 2014, I went to Qatar to experience the wonder first hand. It was everything I hoped it would be, children and young adults as juries, films that although made for all ages, could really infuse younger minds with a message of peace and hope. You know, an idealist film writer’s dream come true.

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In Cinema, Festival, The Diaries Tags Qatar, Doha, Doha Film Institute, Ajyal Film Festival, youth, Elia Suleiman, This Must Be Heaven, karak chai, Oualid Mouaness, Amjad Abu Alala, Jason Silva, Gitanjali Rao, Chace Crawford, Kris Hitchen, Sundance TV, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Arab cinema, 1982
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