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‘Where the Wind Comes From’ Director on ‘Defying Orientalism’ With Tunisian Sundance Comedy: ‘People Want to See Belly Dancing and Mosques’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Rafa Sales Ross Guest Contributor The snow-covered Park City feels a world away from Tunis, where Amel Guellaty shot her feature debut “Where the Wind Comes From,” playing Sundance as part of the World Cinema Dramatic Competition strand. This real-life journey somewhat echoes that of the film’s main characters, Alyssa (Eya Bellagha) and Mehdi (Slim Baccar), who embark on an eventful road trip to make it to an artist contest that promises to be the key to leaving their home country for a life in Europe. Speaking exclusively with Variety, the photographer-turned-filmmaker says Sundance was always her “dream” festival.

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Doha Film Institute Unveils 49 Projects Selected For 2025 Qumra Event With Oscar Winner Walter Salles As Mentor

The Doha Film Institute (DFI) has unveiled the 49 projects across all formats that will be showcased at the 11th edition of its Qumra development and networking event in April.

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'I was sold by Erik ten Hag - but I'm better than £25m wonderkid linked to Man United'

Former Manchester United youngster Hannibal Mejbri has claimed he is better than the club's reported transfer target Chris Rigg.

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Police investigate after woman filmed telling train passenger to 'go back to Morocco or Tunisia'

Police are investigating after a woman appeared to be filmed telling a fellow passenger on a Manchester-bound train to 'go back to Morocco or Tunisia'.

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Fan Bingbing, Nabil Ayouch & Amy Nicholson Join Todd Haynes In Berlinale Competition Jury

The Berlinale has unveiled the jury for its main Competition as well as those for the sidebars of its 75th edition running February 13 to 23.

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Doha Film Institute Gets Behind Projects By Sofia Alaoui, Oday Rasheed, Youssef Chebbi & Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese In Fall 2024 Grants Round

Qatar‘s Doha Film Institute has revealed the 47 projects across all formats selected for its fall 2024 grants round.

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'Let us down' - Former Man United ace who Gary Neville loves sent-off for horror tackle

Former Manchester United midfielder Hannibal Mejbri was shown a straight red card for a stamp during Burnley's Championship clash with Stoke City.

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The budget destination Brits are choosing over Spain for a cheap holiday

Spain and the Canary Islands, traditional havens for Brits craving winter sunlight and family-oriented resorts, are seeing their appeal tested as heightened prices force budget-minded travellers to seek alternative destinations.

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MAD Distribution Snaps Up MENA Rights To Sundance Title ‘Where The Wind Comes From’

EXCLUSIVE: MAD Distribution, the theatrical arm of Cairo-based studio MAD Solutions, has acquired MENA rights to Tunisian director Amel Guellaty’s coming-of-age road movie Where The Wind Comes From ahead of its world premiere in Sundance.

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Sundance-Bound ‘Where the Wind Comes From’ Picked Up by Films Boutique (EXCLUSIVE)

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Films Boutique has picked up international rights to Amel Guellaty’s “Where the Wind Comes From” (formerly known as “Tunis-Djerba”), ahead of its world premiere in Sundance’s World Dramatic Competition. The International Film Festival Rotterdam will host the European premiere of the coproduction between Tunisia, France and Qatar, which is Guellaty’s first feature. In the film, fearless spirit Alyssa and sensitive artist Mehdi, best friends since childhood, feel cramped in their life on the outskirts of Tunis.

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‘Take My Breath’ Review: Tunisia’s Good-Looking Oscar Submission Explores Intersex Identity

Alissa Simon Film Critic Tunisia has made relatively few submissions for the international feature Oscar, yet thanks to female helmer Kaouther Ben Hania, the country recently earned a nomination with “The Man Who Sold His Skin” (2020) and a place on the shortlist with “Four Daughters” (2023). This year’s submission, “Take My Breath,” comes from another female director, Nada Mezni Hafaiedh, but did not make the shortlist.

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Lotfi Achour’s ‘Red Path’ Wins Golden Yusr at Red Sea Film Festival as Viola Davis and Priyanka Chopra Jonas Receive Honorary Awards

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Tunisia’s “Red Path,” directed by Lotfi Achour, was awarded the Golden Yusr for best feature film Thursday at the Red Sea Film Festival awards ceremony, where honorary awards were bestowed on Viola Davis and Priyanka Chopra Jonas. Sarah Jessica Parker, Dev Patel, John Boyega and Nick Jonas were among the star guests. Johnny Depp’s “Modi, Three Days on the Wing of Madness” screened as the festival’s final gala screening, with Depp attending with star Riccardo Scamarcio.

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‘Red Path’ Wins Best Film & Director At Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival – Full Winners List

Tunisia director Lotfi Achour’s Red Path has won best film and director at the fourth edition of Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Film Festival.

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Syrian Rebels Announce Ousting Of President Bashar Al-Assad In Dramatic TV Broadcast

Syrian rebels took to the airwaves on state Syrian TV on Sunday morning local time to announce they had ousted President Bashar al-Assad, after their shock seizure of the country’s capital of Damascus.

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‘Take My Breath’ Filmmaker Nada Mezni Hafaiedh On Being “Truthful To The Experience Of An Intersex Individual” In Tunisia’s Oscar Entry – Contenders International

Tunisian Oscar entry Take My Breath explores the clash between desire and identity as the life of 23-year-old seamstress Shams (Amina Ben Ismail) is overturned when their intersex identity is exposed. Targeted by an obsessive attacker, Shams escapes to the capital city and lives in the shadows, shunned by true love and rejected by society’s rigid norms and expectations.

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FIFA Club World Cup draw in FULL: Expanded 32-team comp sees Messi, Chelsea and Manchester City mixed in

Manchester City, Chelsea, Real Madrid and PSG have all discovered their opponents as the FIFA Club World Cup draw was completed in Miami.

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‘Snow White,’ ‘Aicha,’ ‘Abdo and Saneya’ Among Bold Films From Arab World at Red Sea Film Festival

Martin Dale Contributor Arab independent films are enjoying a resurgence in terms of festival and commercial success affirms Antoine Khalife, the Red Sea Film Festival’s director of Arab programs and film classics, citing the example of Egyptian thriller “Flight 404,” which has grossed over $4 million in Saudi Arabia this year. Khalife praises the modern spirit of recent Egyptian independent cinema and has chosen two titles for this year’s official selection – “Seeking Haven for Mr Rambo,” about an evicted man who seeks a new home for himself and his loyal dog, and “Snow White,” about a woman with dwarfism who develops a relationship with a man over the internet.

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When is the FIFA Club World Cup draw? Live stream and seeding details ahead of revamped competition

FIFA's Club World Cup is set for a radical new look, as it expands to 32 teams for the first time.

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‘Gomorrah’ Star Salvatore Esposito Joins Sports Car Biopic ‘Maserati: The Brothers’, Filming Begins Today

EXCLUSIVE: Gomorrah star Salvatore Esposito is the latest name to join English-language sports car biopic, Maserati: The Brothers, which is now filming in Italy.

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‘You Don’t Die Two Times,’ ‘Amal,’ ‘The North Wind’ Win Top Prizes at Cairo Film Connection

Ben Croll Three documentary projects took top honors at this year’s Cairo Film Connection, with Ager Oueslati’s “You Don’t Die Two Times” winning the post-production prize as development laurels went to Khaled Al Swidan’s “Amal” and Eliane Raheb’s “The North Wind.” Marking his first year at the head of the Cairo Film Festival’s development and postproduction showcase, CFC director Rodrigo Brum tells Variety that the three winning titles all share a sense of immediacy. “It was really clear why these films need to be made now,” says Brum.

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Red Sea Film Festival’s Lavish New HQ Reflects a Desire to See Arab Cinema Flourish

Red Sea Film Festival has a lot to celebrate. The ambitious event, which is Saudi’s first full-fledged film festival and market, has rapidly become the region’s main movie industry hub and films supported by its Red Sea Fund have fared nicely this year, with Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania’s “Four Daughters” scoring an Oscar nomination and Tawfik Alzaidi’s “Norah” becoming the first-ever Saudi film to play at the Cannes Film Festival.

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