The 18th Arab World Film Festival opened this Thursday (31) at Cinesesc in São Paulo. The first screening was ‘Mother Valley,’ in which women in a Lebanese village endure the reality of the local patriarchy, the 1958 conflict, and the desire for freedom.
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Brazil’s Arab World Film Festival will hold online discussions with the participation of Syrian director Ameer Fakhr al Din and Jordanian Darin J. Sallam, director of ‘Farha.’
The screenings will occur at CineSesc, in São Paulo, on the festival’s return to the in-person format, from August 31 to September 7. Three films will be available on the Sesc Digital platform.
Starting this Friday (27), the Arab World Film Festival at Home will hold discussions with directors of some of the films on its program.
Executives from SESC, ICArabe and the Arab Brazilian Chamber spoke at this year’s festival opening. The event is online, and the screenings start this Friday (20).
One of the works is directed by Brazil’s Otavio Cury. The films will be screened on the Festival and SESC’s digital platforms. This year’s edition will rn from August 20 to September 16.
The company created a USD 500,000 fund in partnership with an art and culture institution to support film and television crews whose activities were hampered by the COVID-19 pandemic.
From September 10 to December 2, Brazil African Film Festival will screen movies from eight different countries in the Cine África project on Cinema em Casa com SESC’s website.
Several Arab productions are available on streaming platforms and subscription services such as Netflix, Net Now, and Amazon Prime Video. Check out our selection.
Movies from Palestine, Egypt, Qatar, Morocco, Lebanon, Syria, Tunisia and Algeria are part of the International Film Festival to run from October 17 to 30. Palestinian director Elia Suleiman will be awarded.
The 14th Arab World Film Festival had movie screenings at CineSesc in August and will resume its program next Wednesday (16) at Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil in São Paulo. Tunisian director Lotfi Achour will be in the city for an event with the public.
The 4th edition of the festival runs from July 10 to 17 at CineSesc in São Paulo. Out of the 24 movies from 14 different countries, four are Arabs, from Tunisia, Egypt and Morocco.
