The prolific filmmaker, the focus of a retrospective at IFFR 2026, discussed his career and craft during a Rotterdam event.

From Raiders of the Lost Ark to The Mummy, these movies will transport you down the Nile and thousands of years into the past ...

At this year’s Cairo Intl. Film Festival, Egyptian filmmakers arrive not just to premiere their films, but to stake a claim in the country’s cinematic future. Once the beating heart of Arab cinema, ...

Just over a year after it was pulled as the opening short film of the 2024 edition of Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival by the country’s censorship board, The Last Miracle had been cleared to screen at ...

Indian director and actress Nandita Das and head of the El Gouna jury presents the Golden Star to Egyptian producer Abdelrahman Amin for 'Ghost Trail' Getty Images The seventh edition of Egypt’s El ...

Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival, which put its sixth edition on hold in October due to the Israel-Hamas conflict, has announced it will run a special edition from December 14 to 21. The festival, ...

Egyptian box office may be down this summer (the season’s 13 new offerings, produced at a sum of $35 million, have earned just $22 million so far), but filmmakers from the region have found a formula ...

The Egyptian Theatre was an original Park City screening room for Sundance and remained one for decades, but it was not tapped to show films this year. It was also essentially Sundance’s anchor on ...

The Egyptian Theatre in Park City hosted a panel discussion with four film directors as its last event for the 2026 Sundance ...