DHAHRAN: Jordanian film producer and script consultant Deema Azar recently mentored four promising writers at the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture, or Ithra, which she says demonstrates the rich pool of talent available in the country. The creatives were chosen from eight scriptwriters, who were selected out of 401 applicants, for the Screenplay-in-Progress Competition
DUBAI: In recent years, there has been a notable increase in the number and public profile of female Arab filmmakers. This is, no doubt, partly due to the increasing market for stories told from an Arab perspective finally breaking the stereotypical image of Arabs in international films as either victims or villains as well as to the increasing diversity of the
Jordanian film "Farha", vehemently criticised in Israel, is based on true events and represents "only a drop in the ocean" of Palestinian suffering, director Darin J. Sallam told AFP.
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Director of Netflix film 'Farha', which stirred uproar in Israel due to brutal scene portraying IDF soldiers in a sadistic light, said plot for her first full-length feature inspired by story told to her by her mother