Jordanian producer Rula Nasser has boarded Egyptian filmmaker Kasem Kharsa’s feature debut Shelter.
The project, which has been developed through the Sundance Institute, Binger FilmLab and Torino screenwriting workshops, revolves around an amnesiac stranded in the ghettoes of Beirut. In the process of trying to piece his life back together, he discovers his connection to a genocide that took place decades earlier.
“It’s strong story from an interesting talent who is living between the Us and the Middle East,” explained Nasser, who plans to structure the project as a co-production and shoot in Jordan in 2016. Kharsa’s credits include well-received short films such as Paper Dress. Shelter received a development grant from Doha Film Institute in 2012.
Nasser, who produces under Amman-based banner The Imaginarium Films, has two films in Diff’s Muhr feature competition – Rifqi Assaf’s The Curve, a co-production with Egypt’s Film Clinic and France’s Eaux Vives Productions; and Omar Shargawi’s [link...
The project, which has been developed through the Sundance Institute, Binger FilmLab and Torino screenwriting workshops, revolves around an amnesiac stranded in the ghettoes of Beirut. In the process of trying to piece his life back together, he discovers his connection to a genocide that took place decades earlier.
“It’s strong story from an interesting talent who is living between the Us and the Middle East,” explained Nasser, who plans to structure the project as a co-production and shoot in Jordan in 2016. Kharsa’s credits include well-received short films such as Paper Dress. Shelter received a development grant from Doha Film Institute in 2012.
Nasser, who produces under Amman-based banner The Imaginarium Films, has two films in Diff’s Muhr feature competition – Rifqi Assaf’s The Curve, a co-production with Egypt’s Film Clinic and France’s Eaux Vives Productions; and Omar Shargawi’s [link...
- 12/13/2015
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Mad Solutions has acquired pan-Arab rights to seven films in this year’s Diff line-up, including The Curve and Before The Summer Crowds, which receive their world premieres in the Muhr feature competition today.
The Cairo and Abu Dhabi-based distributor has also picked up two other Muhr feature titles – Omar Shargawi’s Al Medina, which also receives its world premiere at Diff, and Mai Masri’s 3,000 Nights, which premiered in Toronto.
Mad’s distribution slate also includes Arabian Nights title Love, Theft And Other Entanglements, directed by Muayad Alayan, and short films Ave Maria and 5th Floor Room 52.
Mad, which deals directly with cinemas across the region, is planning limited releases of up to 20 screens for each film. “Our strategy is to prolong the life of each film in the cinema, which is easier to manage when you have a smaller number of screens,” said Mad CEO Alaa Karkouti.
Mai Masri’s 3,000 Nights will be rolled out across...
The Cairo and Abu Dhabi-based distributor has also picked up two other Muhr feature titles – Omar Shargawi’s Al Medina, which also receives its world premiere at Diff, and Mai Masri’s 3,000 Nights, which premiered in Toronto.
Mad’s distribution slate also includes Arabian Nights title Love, Theft And Other Entanglements, directed by Muayad Alayan, and short films Ave Maria and 5th Floor Room 52.
Mad, which deals directly with cinemas across the region, is planning limited releases of up to 20 screens for each film. “Our strategy is to prolong the life of each film in the cinema, which is easier to manage when you have a smaller number of screens,” said Mad CEO Alaa Karkouti.
Mai Masri’s 3,000 Nights will be rolled out across...
- 12/10/2015
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Jordanian producer Rula Nasser has boarded Dogme-style drama Medina, directed by Danish-Palestinian filmmaker Omar Shargawi, as producer alongside Nordisk Film Production.
Nasser’s production company The Imaginarium Films was previously line producer on the project, which filmed in Jordan, and has now been set up as a Danish-Jordanian co-production. TrustNordisk is handling international sales on the film.
Shargawi also stars as a man who returns to an unspecified Arab city with his Danish pregnant wife and is first imprisoned and then set free into a world that tests his faith and morality.
Shargawi previously directed Go With Peace Jamil (2008), which won a Tiger award at Rotterdam, and award-winning documentaries My Father From Haifa (2010) and ½ Revolution (2011).
The project is one of five selected for Dubai Film Market’s ‘Dfm Goes to Cannes’ works-in-progress screenings in the Cannes Marche. The line-up includes another project produced by Nasser, Rifqi Assaf’s road movie The Curve, which she co-produced...
Nasser’s production company The Imaginarium Films was previously line producer on the project, which filmed in Jordan, and has now been set up as a Danish-Jordanian co-production. TrustNordisk is handling international sales on the film.
Shargawi also stars as a man who returns to an unspecified Arab city with his Danish pregnant wife and is first imprisoned and then set free into a world that tests his faith and morality.
Shargawi previously directed Go With Peace Jamil (2008), which won a Tiger award at Rotterdam, and award-winning documentaries My Father From Haifa (2010) and ½ Revolution (2011).
The project is one of five selected for Dubai Film Market’s ‘Dfm Goes to Cannes’ works-in-progress screenings in the Cannes Marche. The line-up includes another project produced by Nasser, Rifqi Assaf’s road movie The Curve, which she co-produced...
- 5/19/2015
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
Films from Dubai, Guadalajara and Buenos Aires among line-up.
The Cannes Film Festival’s Marché (May 13-25) is to host films from the Dubai Film Market and Mexico’s Guadalajara festival among its works-in-progress line-up.
Run in collaboration with regional film festivals and markets from around the world, the post-production projects are screened to sales agents, distributors and festival delegates in Cannes, with filmmakers giving a 10-15 minute introduction before excerpts from their films.
Partners for the three showcases this year are the Dubai International Film Festival and market, the Buenos Aires Festival of Independent Cinema (Bafici) and the Guadalajara International Film Festival.
Titles to be screened under the Dubai Film Market Goes to Cannes banner hail from Palestine to Tunisia:
The Curve (Jordan)
Dir: Rifqi Assaf
Pro: Rula Nasser
Medina (Palestine/Denmark)
Dir: Omar Sharqawi
Pro: Rula Nasser
Borders Of Heaven (fka A Full Moon Night) (Tunisia)
Dir: Fares Naanaa
Pro: Habib Attia
The Other Side Of November (Lebanon...
The Cannes Film Festival’s Marché (May 13-25) is to host films from the Dubai Film Market and Mexico’s Guadalajara festival among its works-in-progress line-up.
Run in collaboration with regional film festivals and markets from around the world, the post-production projects are screened to sales agents, distributors and festival delegates in Cannes, with filmmakers giving a 10-15 minute introduction before excerpts from their films.
Partners for the three showcases this year are the Dubai International Film Festival and market, the Buenos Aires Festival of Independent Cinema (Bafici) and the Guadalajara International Film Festival.
Titles to be screened under the Dubai Film Market Goes to Cannes banner hail from Palestine to Tunisia:
The Curve (Jordan)
Dir: Rifqi Assaf
Pro: Rula Nasser
Medina (Palestine/Denmark)
Dir: Omar Sharqawi
Pro: Rula Nasser
Borders Of Heaven (fka A Full Moon Night) (Tunisia)
Dir: Fares Naanaa
Pro: Habib Attia
The Other Side Of November (Lebanon...
- 4/21/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
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