Exclusive: Arab co-production platform Aflamuna Connection has unveiled 18 feature projects from emerging filmmakers that will be showcased at its ninth edition.
The projects span fiction, documentary, docu-fiction and animation and comprise 13 titles in development and five in post-production, hailing from Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, and Tunisia.
Titles include My Name Is Khalil, a documentary by Palestinian filmmaker Bilal Al Khatib, which follows Khalil Albatran, a Palestinian theatre director exploring social issues through artistic expression. Al Khatib’s short Palestine 87 played at Clermont-Ferrand in 2023 and won Carthage’s Golden Tanit for best short film.
Iraqi documentary Childhood...
The projects span fiction, documentary, docu-fiction and animation and comprise 13 titles in development and five in post-production, hailing from Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, and Tunisia.
Titles include My Name Is Khalil, a documentary by Palestinian filmmaker Bilal Al Khatib, which follows Khalil Albatran, a Palestinian theatre director exploring social issues through artistic expression. Al Khatib’s short Palestine 87 played at Clermont-Ferrand in 2023 and won Carthage’s Golden Tanit for best short film.
Iraqi documentary Childhood...
- 8/5/2025
- ScreenDaily
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