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Alissa Simon Film Critic In his second theatrical film, multi-hyphenate Mehran Modiri, one of Iran’s most beloved TV satirists, turns his hand to the thriller genre with mixed results. He writes, directs and performs in the intense but increasingly contrived social issues movie “6 A.M.,” in which a small incident escalates into a big tragedy.

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Lebanese Producer Georges Schoucair Talks Stressful But Productive 2024 Wrapping Two Movies & Launching A Cinema Against Backdrop Of War

Producing an independent film is a challenge at the best of times: Beirut-based producer Georges Schoucair has shot two tightly financed indie features and helped launch a new arthouse cinema this year against the backdrop of war.

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‘Robbing Beirut’, ‘Guria’ & ‘Saria Othman Needs No Man’ Scoop Top Prizes At Red Sea Project Market

Lebanese Canadian director Katia Jarjoura’s drama Robbing Beirut has won the top $75,000 in-development prize in the Red Sea Souk project market, presenting 31 feature films and seven series projects within Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea International Film Festival.

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‘A Good Day Will Come’ Writer-Director Amir Zargara On Bringing A Tragic Hero’s Story To Life In Oscar-Qualifying Short Film

Is it better to live safely within the suppression of an unjust system or to risk your life for the chance of freedom? This is the question posed in Amir Zargara’s Oscar-qualifying short A Good Day Will Come. Written and directed by Zargara, the short follows Arash (Sia Alipour), a young athlete on the cusp of professional wrestling stardom. He lives with his mother and younger brother while he trains for larger competitions at the gym under the guidance of his seasoned coach. However, when the turmoil within his country can no longer be ignored, he is forced to ask himself if he will use his platform to speak for justice or cope with the plights of his people in silence.

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Syrian Filmmakers Hail End of Assad Regime and Look to Rebuild Industry as an ‘Internationally Connected’ Community: ‘The War Is Finished, Let’s Go Back’

MAD Solutions — who left his native Syria for Cairo before the civil war — struck a more cautious note. “For me, the basic question in these matters is always: ‘Who owns the weapons?’ Because the weapons are not free. So someone is behind it [Assad’s ouster],” he noted, citing the changing geopolitical scenario which saw Assad flee to Russia when he was no longer able to rely on political support from Iran, Russia and Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia.

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The Best Movies of 2024

(Click here to jump to Peter Debruge’s list.) Luca Guadagnino’s top-spinning marvel of a movie tells the tale of three pretty young tennis pros: their friendships, their rivalries, their love matches, their games. It’s about everything that can happen between three people, but it’s not about anything more than that.

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‘Baghdad Messi’ Review: From Iraq Comes a Heartfelt Social Realist Drama Set During the Second Gulf War

Richard Kuipers The shattering of a childhood dream is symbolic of the cruelly contorted fate of a nation in “Baghdad Messi.” Kurdish-Belgian filmmaker Sahim Omar Kalifa has expanded his much-acclaimed 2012 short into an affecting social drama that unfolds amid violence and fear in Iraq, 2009, during the second Gulf War. Centered on a soccer-mad young boy whose family is forced to move from the capital to a small village after his leg is blown off in a terrorist attack, “Baghdad Messi” has an almost documentary-like realism that makes compelling viewing of Iraq’s international feature Oscar submission.

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Oscar Hopeful Mohammad Rasoulof, Director of ‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig,’ Sets Animated Feature About Iranian Revolution

Ben Croll “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” director Mohammad Rasoulof has shared new details of his upcoming animated feature, telling Variety that the project will span the life of absurdist Iranian playwright Abbas Nalbandian, beginning a decade before the Iranian Revolution and covering the country’s turn until the playwright’s death a decade later. With this animated biopic, Rasoulof wants to focus on three pivotal decades in modern Iranian history – a period he feels he can only properly evoke with a more stylized filmmaking form.

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Syrian President Bashar Assad Ousted From Power in Bloodless Coup After 13-Year Civil War

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Syrian President Bashar Assad was ousted from power early on Sunday in a stunning bloodless coup by Islamist rebels who took control of Damascus, the Syrian capital after a 13-year civil war that has caused more than 500,000 deaths and forced millions of Syrians to leave their homeland. The rebels, who are called the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham fighters, moved swiftly, entering Damascus and taking over the city as government military fled, hours after Assad had absconded.

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Marrakech Winners: Palestinian Drama ‘Happy Holidays’ Wins Best Film

Palestinian director Scandar Copti’s drama Happy Holidays has clinched the Étoile d’Or for Best Film at the Marrakech Film Festival.

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European Film Award Winners: Jacques Audiard Wins Best Director For ‘Emilia Pérez’ — Updating Live

The 37th European Film Awards are underway in the Swiss lakeside city of Lucerne.

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FBI demands footage from doc about ex-Green Beret who plotted Venezuela coup— but director plans to fight back

Men of War” tells the story of Jordan Goudreau, a former Green Beret who, in 2020, as documented in the movie, helped plot a would-be coup against Venezuela’s authoritarianMaduro regime. “I found out that they want to subpoena all the raw footage,” Jen Gatien, who co-directed “Men of War,” told The Post of the feds. “That’s 100 hours of raw interviews that I did with Jordan and everyone else.

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‘In the Arms of the Tree’ Review: Modest Iranian Film Spins Platitudes Following Two Young Brothers Weathering a Divorce

Manuel Betancourt A family is a careful and often fragile ecosystem. Some can withstand strong winds, while others crumble under the slightest of breezes. In Babak Khajehpasha’s “In the Arms of the Tree,” a couple who have been together for more than a decade have to grapple with what their decision to divorce will do, not just to their lives but to the well-knit world their two young sons have created for one another.

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‘Universal Language’ Director Matthew Rankin on Making a Comedy Without Borders for His Canadian Oscar Entry

Matthew Rankin thinks more of audiences than that. His new film, “Universal Language,” was selected by Canada as the country’s submission for the Oscars’ international feature category, but you’d be forgiven if you were unable to place it.

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Berlin Film Festival to Open With Tom Tykwer’s ‘The Light’ Starring Lars Eidinger

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Tom Tykwer’s “The Light” will open the 75th Berlin International Film Festival. The German-French production, Das Licht (“The Light”) will be presented as a Berlinale Special Gala out of competition in the Berlinale Palast.

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Destin Daniel Cretton Boards Oscar-Qualified Live-Action Short ‘In The Garden Of Tulips’ As EP

EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Destin Daniel Cretton has boarded In the Garden of Tulips, an Oscar-qualified live-action short written by and starring Ava Lalezarzadeh, as executive producer.

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Laura Mackie Leaving ‘Unforgotten’ Producer Mainstreet; Europa Cinemas & Alternativa Film Winners; Awards PBS Buys ‘The Gold’; Nordisk Film Production Hires — Global Briefs

Laura Mackie Leaving ‘Unforgotten’ Producer Mainstreet Pictures

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Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi released from prison months after court overturned death sentence

months after the court overturned his death sentence.The rapper was arrested in October 2022 after backing demonstrations that broke out in the wake of the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, which occurred under suspicious circumstances while in police custody.Toomaj Salehi was also known for using his songs to criticise Iran’s leaders for their crackdowns on protests. He was sentenced to death in April on the capital offence of “corruption on earth” after making statements in support of anti-government protests in 2022.Now, in an Instagram post shared earlier today (December 2), Salehi announced on social media that he has been freed from prison.

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Iranian Dissident Rapper Toomaj Salehi Freed From Prison Months After Charges Were Dropped – Update

UPDATED, 7:05 PM: Months after escaping Iran‘s death penalty and seeing all the charges against him dismissed, rapper Toomaj Salehi finally walked out of prison today.

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Star Power As Angelina Jolie’s ‘Maria’ & Daniel Craig In ‘Queer’ Test Long Holiday Weekend — Specialty Preview

Catching up to three big name festival films that opened Wednesday at the specialty box office to start the extended U.S. Thanksgiving holiday weekend – Luca Guadagnino’s Queer from A24 starring 007 Daniel Craig; Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas in Pablo Larraín’s Maria from Netflix, both of which premiered at Venice; and Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed Of The Sacred Fig, which won a clutch of awards Cannes including a Special Jury Award.

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International Disruptors: Congolese Rumba Star Fally Ipupa & Writer-Director Hamed Mobasser Talk Importance Of Portraying Congo “In A New Light” For ‘Rumba Royale’

Welcome to Deadline’s International Disruptors, a feature where we shine a spotlight on key executives and companies shaking up the offshore marketplace. This week, we’re talking to famed French-Congolese musician and dancer Fally Ipupa, affectionately known as the “Prince of Rumba,” and Belgian-Iranian writer-director Hamed Mobasser. The pair are behind upcoming Congolese feature Rumba Royale, a film that is set pre-Congo’s independence from Belgium in 1960. Described as a historical thriller set against the backdrop of Congolese Rumba, the film marks Ipupa’s first acting role. He and Mobasser tell Deadline why the project is a love letter to Congo’s cultural heritage.

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