With limited funding, no access to cinemas that will take risks, no real producers with clout, and few trained actors, where does Arab cinema go from here, asks Hind Shoufani
When I was asked to write an opinion piece on the state of Middle East cinema as I live it, I had just received (yet another) rejection email from Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF).
They weren’t going to screen my feature length documentary on my revolutionary Palestinian father, the failures of the Arab regimes and the PLO, and 70 years of humiliation, occupation and sectarian warfare.
I had called DIFF to query the status of the film, since it was three weeks to the festival and the only insider news
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