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Algeria: The 11th Oran International Film Festival (West of Algeria) was launched on Wednesday evening, from July 25 to 31, on the theme "Living Together ".
In the current version, 38 films compete for the Grand Prize in the three categories of competition, long fiction, short film and documentary.
The opening ceremony was held at the cinema of Morocco in Oran in the presence of the governor of the province Mouloud Cherifi, the representative of the Algerian Ministry of Culture Ali Men, the accredited diplomatic corps and the stars Arab cinema. Among the producers, critics and directors working in the world of cinema. "
" The event attracted many filmmakers from Arab and foreign countries who produced a film production and added to this art. "
In turn, the festival's president, Ibrahim Siddiqui, stressed that" the public will see 38 films for filmmakers and filmmakers who have given a lot to Arab cinema. "
He added that" the festival Oran is a date that brings together all the actors of the seventh art in the Arab world. "
The 11th session presents 38 films in competition for the Golden Dawn Award in the three official competitions programmed in this course (long, short , documentary).
10 films in competition for directors from Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Morocco, Tunisia, Lebanon, Palestine and Algeria, included in the films "We Were Not Heroes" by Nasr Din Quneifi and "To the Last Time" by Yasmine Shuwaikh
In the category of short films, 14 films are competing in countries such as Tunisia, Iraq , Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Libya, Lebanon, Syria and Palestine. [19659004] Algeria falls into this category with two films, the "White Paper" by Mohamed Najib Amouri and "The Battlefields" by Anwar Ismail.
In documentary films, the contest includes 14 films from Syria, UAE, Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon and Algeria, which participate in five films.
The 11th session of the opening night honored two actors from the cinema: the late Egyptian actress and singer Shadia (1931-2017) and the late Algerian director Farouk Beloufa (1947-2018).
The festival management is preparing to organize five film seminars during the festival days, organized by Algerian and Arab specialists, "The role of intellectual property in the protection of cinematographic rights", "Criticism in the world Arabic: Documentary Film: Production and Marketing Mechanisms "," Opportunities for Presentation and Participation in Short Film Competitions on the WAP ".
The first edition of the Oran Festival was launched in Algeria in 2007 and is dedicated to Arab films. (Anatolia)
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