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This Omani filmmaker is helping organise a film fest to spread hope
By: Times News Service
Omani filmmaker Dr Khaled Al Zadjali has been named the Festival Director for the first ever Hope International Film Festival, an event created to celebrate just that: hope.
We could all do with a little hope right now.
Come September, Dr Khaled Al Zadjali will be travelling to Stockholm for the Hope International Film Festival, for which he has been named the Festival Director.
The event aims to celebrate humanitarian issues and focus on how people have overcome their disabilities. Through the films screened at the festival, the organisers hope to share tales of inspiration from those who face challenges the rest of us are privileged to have avoided, and spread awareness on the hurdles those with physical and mental disabilities need to face almost daily.
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After the success of the first virtual Arab film festival held last year, the organisers are all set for the second such event this year, to be held in May.
Titled Cinemana Arab Film Festival, the virtual film festival is being organised by the General Union of Arab Artists through its chapter in Oman.
The festival will feature a competition in three categories of films, namely documentary, short fiction and animation with a call for entries now open.
Dr Khaled Al Zadjali, Vice President of the General Union of Arab Artists and Director of the second Cinemana Festival for Arab Film, announced that the juries have been selected for the three categories of film competition.