Naoures Rouissi
Tunisia
Cultural Manager and Researcher
Cinema
Naoures Rouissi
Tunisia
Cultural Manager and Researcher
Cinema
Student
Master Of Cultural Policy and Cultural Management
2018
THESIS TITLE: Major European International Festivals and Programming of Arab films after Political Transformations in the Arab Region since 2010
Abstract:
The recent years, since the outbreak of the Arab revolutions, have witnessed an unprecedented interest in programming Arab films in major film festivals at the global level, especially in Europe, North America and Asia, such as Cannes Film Festival, Berlin Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, Toronto Film Festival and other festivals. Arab films also made it to the shortlist of Academy Awards in the category of Best Foreign Film. Some of these films were crowned with major awards, which were accompanied, in varying degrees, by commercial success in the western halls; public appreciation and good reception from film critics.
This global radiation of Arab cinema coincided with the political transformations that the Arab region is experiencing, especially as some of these films are fiction or documentary, which carry in their folds issues about the reality of the Arab revolutions. In films, these issues are presented differently from visual media, written press, and television reporting.
This research paper tries to answer the question of whether political changes in the Arab region play a role in programming Arab films in major film festivals.
Its aim is to identify the extent to which the political changes in the Arab region influence the choices and motives of programming Arab films in major film festivals. Also, this study aims to explore the reasons why Arab films are gaining interest in the west as well as propose a set of recommendations to national Arab cinematographies to improve the condition of filmmaking in order to produce good quality films that better represent our cultural identity abroad.
The recent years, since the outbreak of the Arab revolutions, have witnessed an unprecedented interest in programming Arab films in major film festivals at the global level, especially in Europe, North America and Asia, such as Cannes Film Festival, Berlin Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, Toronto Film Festival and other festivals. Arab films also made it to the shortlist of Academy Awards in the category of Best Foreign Film. Some of these films were crowned with major awards, which were accompanied, in varying degrees, by commercial success in the western halls; public appreciation and good reception from film critics.
This global radiation of Arab cinema coincided with the political transformations that the Arab region is experiencing, especially as some of these films are fiction or documentary, which carry in their folds issues about the reality of the Arab revolutions. In films, these issues are presented differently from visual media, written press, and television reporting.
This research paper tries to answer the question of whether political changes in the Arab region play a role in programming Arab films in major film festivals.
Its aim is to identify the extent to which the political changes in the Arab region influence the choices and motives of programming Arab films in major film festivals. Also, this study aims to explore the reasons why Arab films are gaining interest in the west as well as propose a set of recommendations to national Arab cinematographies to improve the condition of filmmaking in order to produce good quality films that better represent our cultural identity abroad.
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