Loading ...Cannes: Arab Filmmakers Thrive Despite Regional Upheavals
SOURCE: VARIETY BY: NICK VIVARELLI Arab cinema is gaining greater international traction amid constant flux in the Middle-East film industry. With two works competing for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes festival — Lebanese director Nadine Labaki’s “Capernaum” and Egyptian-Austrian first-time filmmaker Abu Bakr Shawky’s “Yomeddine” — plus three more pics sprinkled throughout other sections, the Arab contingent at Cannes has … Continued