Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “The Sea,” a poignant drama about a Palestinian boy who risks his life to go to the beach for the first time in Tel Aviv, will ...

Annemarie Jacir’s award-winning film Palestine 36 leads the nominations for the 10th edition of the Critics Awards For Arab ...

EXCLUSIVE: Mad Distribution has taken Arab theatrical rights for Kaouther Ben Hania’s Gaza drama The Voice of Hind Hajab, which was announced as Tunisia’s entry for the Best International Feature Film ...

Arab films from Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Tunisia, Sweden, Palestine, Egypt, Morocco and Iraq have been entered into the Best International Feature Film category at next year’s Academy Awards. The ...

Palestinian director Laila Abbas’ female empowerment drama “Thank You for Banking With Us!” won best film and director at the 9th Critics Awards for Arab Films at an event held on the sidelines of the ...

Georges Khabbaz stars alongside German film legend Hanna Schygulla in Ameer Fakher Eldin’s melancholic drama about an exiled Syrian writer who travels to a North Sea island, contemplating suicide. By ...

Matty Brown with young stars of The Sand Castle Zain Al Rafeea (L), M Riman Al Rafeea (R) Getty Images The image of the lifeless body of two-year-old Kurdish-Syrian boy Alan Kurdi lying washed up on a ...

Last month, "Palestine '36," the opening-night of Karama’s San Diego Arab Film Festival, sold out a week in advance. Here is an early preview of its second weekend of films. Film has the power to stir ...

Egypt’s Ahmed Helmy and Hend Sabri — who are two of the Arab world’s most bankable stars — are set to be paired onscreen for the first time in upcoming Cairo-set feature “His Weakest Creatures” by ...

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Arab female film directors have helped change the landscape of Arab cinema in recent years, presenting stories that haven’t been told before and claiming space in an ...

Look for Arab cinema and lots of docs at festivals this week. First up is the always impressively programmed Arab Film Festival, presented by the San Francisco-based Arab Film and Media Institute, ...