2019 has been an excellent year for films from Africa and the Middle East, with a higher presence in A-list festivals, and kudos for films such as Mati Diop’s “Atlantics,” which won the Grand Prix …
2019 has been an excellent year for films from Africa and the Middle East, with a higher presence in A-list festivals, and kudos for films such asThe “new wave” of Arab and African cinema includes a small group of films that explore links with genre cinema – including fantasy, sci-fi and horror – which is related to a broader trend in literature and the contemporary arts in the Arab world that is exploring dystopias and fantasy settings.
Inspired by this experience, Schoucair is now developing his first genre movie “Under Construction,” to be directed by Nadim Tabet, written by Tabet and Antoine Waked. In 2017 Schoucair produced Tabet’s debut feature “One of These Days,” about Lebanese youth. Schoucair considers that streaming platforms have played a key role in fostering greater circulation of African and Arab content both within the region and to the world and have also stimulated the development of new trends such as genre films.
The participants noted that over the last three decades the main style adopted by independent films from the region has been social realism. In recent years, however, independent cinema has begun to embrace genre filmmaking, including directors such as Amin Sidi-Boumédine , Abdelhamid Bouchnak , and Larissa Sansour .
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