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Could foreign partners help revive ailing Arab film industry?

The Sharm el-Sheikh Arab and European Film Festival started a debate through a seminar on joint film projects between the Arab world and Europe, over the feasibility of international co-productions.
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In a bid to find a larger market for Egyptian and Arab films and in search of greater production potential, a seminar was held March 10 on the sidelines of the Arab and European Film Festival, which took place March 5-11, in Sharm el-Sheikh. The seminar was titled “Arab-European co-productions," and it discussed the possibility of Arab and European directors co-producing films.

The seminar was moderated by Egyptian film critic Nader Adly and included Egyptian film critic Magda Wassef, who is also the head of the Luxor Egyptian and European Film Festival; Egyptian film critic and director of the Kuwait Cinema Club Imad al-Nuwairi; Lebanese actress Madeleine Tabar; Algerian film critic Abdelkrim Kadri; Jordanian director Darine Salam; Tunisian writer, director, film producer and playwright Lotfi Achour; and Tunisian actress Anisa Dawood.

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