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Three AFAC-supported films win at Cannes Film Festival
Three AFAC-supported films won multiple awards at the 76th Cannes Film Festival. The first ever Sudanese film to participate in the Cannes Film Festival,...
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AFAC x OSN Writers’ Room: come together and write
An oval-shaped table. Layers over layers of paper scraps. Random words and notes on a board. Lots of storylines. This is where many of our favorite characters...
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The time has come for AFAC’s second grant cycle: Apply Today!
Summer is around the corner, and so is AFAC’s second grant cycle. In this cycle, we welcome applications for the Music, Cinema, and Training and Regional...
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AFAC’s first grant cycle for 2023 is open! Here’s everything you need to know to apply
The time for AFAC’s first grant cycle has arrived, and we at AFAC would like to invite you to explore the opportunities that our various grant programs...
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Join us to talk scandal in Berlin on Jan 26, 27
To reflect on the shaming and exposure practices at the heart of the surge in crises around cultural events in Europe and the region in recent years,...
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AFAC-supported films take home 6 Yusr awards at Red Sea Film Festival
Nine AFAC-supported films took part in the Red Sea Film Festival held last week in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, with six participants taking home awards, including...
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AFAC-supported films win big in Cairo
AFAC-supported films took home seven awards at the 2022 edition of the Cairo International Film Festival this past November. We invite you to take a quick...
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Lights! Camera! AFAC! Meet the 25 full length features and shorts in the 2022 grants cycle
A Palestinian projectionist recently released from a 30-year stint in an Israeli prison returns to the arthouse cinema he was arrested from during the...
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Grant announcement! AFAC’s 2022 Music grantees tune into musical memory to re-imagine heritages
The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture – AFAC is proud to announce the 21 projects that have been selected to receive support under its 2022 Music grant...
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Get to know the 7 AFAC-supported documentaries to show at IDFA 2022
Seven AFAC-supported films are set to show at the 35th edition of the International Documentary Film festival Amsterdam - IDFA this November. We are happy...
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ADPP 2021: Framing the Personal and the Political
After a year of hard work, 10 photo stories supported during the 2021 cycle of the Arab Documentary Photography Program (ADPP) are up and ready to be...
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Introducing our 2022 Training and Regional Events grantees
The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture – AFAC is pleased to announce the seven individuals and fifteen institutions and collectives set to receive Training...
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Fifteen ADPP Photographers Exhibit in New York City
"An Expression of Absence: Selections from the Arab Documentary Photography Program" is an exhibition organized jointly by Magnum Foundation and the Bronx...
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Incoherence in Open Space - an Encounter with Sarri Elfaitouri about “Tahafut”
Your project Tahafut proposed a direct response to the incoherence (the idea of destruction and decay that shaped Libya through the wars and civil instabilities)...
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Degradation through Aesthetics and Poetry: An Encounter with Seif Kousmate on “Waha”
Your project “Waha” represents a quite peculiar documentation of the deterioration that you have observed of Morocco’s oases. What pushed you to...
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Four AFAC-supported Films to feature at TIFF 2022
The 2022 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) will open in September featuring four films supported by AFAC in its line-up, three...
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‘Hanging Gardens’ and ‘The Last Queen’ Sail to Venice
The 79th edition of the Venice International Film Festival will open at the end of the month with two AFAC-supported films featuring in its line-up. The...
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The Films Supported by the AFAC Documentary Program 2022
Nineteen documentary films, showcasing artful storytelling across a broad spectrum of themes, were selected for support via the AFAC Documentary Program...
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Job Vacancy: Communication Specialist
The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture - AFAC is looking for an energetic and talented Communication Specialist to join the communications team. You have...
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‘Fragments from Heaven’ and ‘L’Ombre des papillons’ to show at Locarno75
Two AFAC-supported films will be shown at the Locarno Film Festival in the coming days when the Swiss movie forum opens for its 75th edition. Both films...
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