Nahom Abraham from Eritrea has won the top prize for best film, and $5,000, in the Berlinale’s 2023 NEFTI award for his film Home, a drama about a couple longing to be reunited....
'Eat Bitter' has been selected to premier at this years CPH:DOX in Denmark....
“Twice Colonized” which was awarded the IEFTA €10,000 Docs in progress award at this years Marché du Film will have its world premiere at Sundance Film Festival 2023 in the World Cinema Documentary Competition....
Egyptian drama “Aisha Can’t Fly Away Anymore,” in development, the debut feature by Orad Mostafa and produced by Sawsan Yusuf, won the $100,000 Red Sea Souk Production Award for an Arab Lodge Project....
Zahraa Ghandour's film "Women of my Life” has been selected as one of 16 projects from Southwest Asia and North Africa, for the 2022-2023 Close Up Program, a cinematic initiative for non-fiction filmmakers....
Alumni Lina Soualem (Palestine) “Bye Bye Tiberias” has been selected for the 5th edition of the Atlas Workshops, (Marrakech International Film Festival) in the ‘Films in Production / Post Production’ category. ...
Alumna Zahraa Ghandour (Iraq) and her project "Women of My Life” has been selected as one of the 60 projects to feature as part of the 30th edition of IDFA Forum taking place November 12 to 16....
Two out of the Eleven documentary projects from six countries that have been selected for the International Documentary Association annual Enterprise Documentary Fund Production Grant are IEFTA alumni Emily Mkrtichian and Tamara Dawit....
"Made in Ethiopia" co-produced by Tamara Dawit and "There Was, There Was Not" directed by Emily Mkrtichian have both been awarded production grants by the IDA. ...
Joseph Mangat's "Divine Factory" celebrates its world premier at DOK Leipzig this October....
Africa filmmaking agency Realness Institute has selected 15 participants which included IEFTA Alumni, Sawsan Yusuf for its second Creative Producer Indaba, a lab for developing entrepreneurial, leadership and creative skills....
Sudan Film Lab pitching sessions "Where Stories Count" award Mohamed Elsadig and his project 'Unfortunate Fortune' it's mentorship prize....
IEFTA teams up at with DOK Leipzig to support and develop emerging documentary filmmakers at the DOK Co-Pro Market, the co-financing and networking event....
Mohamed Elsadig, with his Feature Narrative “Unfortunate Fortune” (Sudan), wins IEFTA Mentorship prize for the 1st Edition of the GFMI Sudan Pitching Lab. ...
IEFTA Alumni, Arun Bhattarai (Bhutan) and his short "Mountain Man", is part of the 19 exceptionally strong films that have been selected for the IDFA Competition for Short Documentary....
DOK Leipzig announces IEFTA Alumni Director, Abid Sarkar Sohag, and Producer, Sardar Zahidul Islam (Bangladesh) have been selected for this years DOK Leipzig Co-Pro Market with their Animated Documentary "Field Marshal”...
Amir El-Shenawy (Egypt) with his Feature Documentary project American Dream, Marwa Zein (Sudan) with her feature fiction project, 'Lily’s Double Planet', and Zahraa Ghandour (Iraq) with her feature documentary 'Women of my Life' will all receive development grant funds from Red Sea Fund....
Aya Yusuf (Egypt) with her project Samar "Before the Final Picture", and Amir El-Shenawy (Egypt) with his project "American Dream", have both been selected as grantees for the AFAC Documentary Program. ...