DUBAI: Four films from the MENA region are set to have their world premieres at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). The movies are also part of the 16 films selected for the festival’s flagship Tiger Competition, worth $42,000 in prize money. Running from Jan. 25 to Feb. 5, the festival is set to return for its first full-scale physical edition since the
VENICE: Venice International Film Festival title “Nezouh,” which means displacement or migration in Arabic, sees director Soudade Kaadan present an allegorical tale of female emancipation set during the height of the Syrian conflict in Damascus. In some ways Kaadan’s latest feature is an extension of her debut film, “The Day I Lost My Shadow,” which clinched the Lion of the