"The Sea" won Best Picture at September's Ophir awards, the Israeli equivalent of the Oscars, prompting condemnation from Culture Minister ...

Director Pradip Kurbah's Khasi language film, *The Elysian Field*, won big at the Moscow International Film Festival, but its success was s...

Over 1,800 actors, entertainers, and producers, including Hollywood stars, have pledged not to collaborate with Israeli film institutions d...

Jafar Panahi, the Iranian dissident director, won the Palme d'Or at Cannes for "It Was Just an Accident," a political film about Iranians c...

The trailer for the biblical film Mary is facing backlash for casting Israeli actors as Mary and other key characters, citing the erasure o...

Saudi Arabia urges regional stability amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, hosting a summit attended by mediators. Concerns about economic impac...

El Gouna Film Festival announces a special edition from December 14 to 21, focusing on Palestinian cinema to shed light on the Gaza situati...

Anand Patwardhan’s The World Is Family won the award for best editing in international competition while The Flickering Lights directed by ...

Palestinians in Gaza have been treated to beachfront movie events, the first big-screen experiences for many since the last cinema closed m...

We were the ones impoverished for not seeing that cinema can be more than dollars and awards.

Many Muslims consider gays and lesbians to be sinful.

The movie shared the prize with Ivorian director Phillipe Lacote's 'Night of the Kings'.

The Marrakech festival sees the emergence of Arab cinema rooted in powerful political content — from the 2006 Lebanon war to the Egyptian R...

Women filmmakers lead the charge in Arab cinema, as they cast off social barriers and tell their stories.

Part of the Jewish Experience category of the Jerusalem festival, Pepe’s Last Battle serves as a mirror to the frustrations of a society st...

The five-day festival will be showcasing 154 films, starting with the opening night feature Out in the Dark, a story of a love affair.

There was nothing random about the White House picking Cairo for President Barack Obama's goodwill outreach to the Muslim world in 2009.