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....
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. ...
The top IEFTA award for docs-in-progress at the Cannes Film Market’s documentary-focused industry sidebar Cannes Docs has gone to “Twice Colonized” by Lin Alluna....
The Intl. Emerging Film Talent Assn. (IEFTA) returns to the Cannes Festival for the 12th year with film programs, panels, awards and cocktail receptions....
IEFTA alumni Ahmed Fawzi-Saleh and Morad Mostafa have been selected for two of the Cannes festival's mentorship and funding platforms...
IEFTA Alumni Filmmakers Daniela Repas and Jessica Daugherty and have been selected by Movies that Matter to be a participant in the Take on Film & Impact program for their project “Pour The Water As I Leave”. ...
"A Quarter To Thursday In Algiers" won the $15,000 CineGouna award for best project in development. ...
Yomna Khattab’s “Fifty Meters” (Egypt) was the big winner on the CineGouna Platform at the El Gouna Film Festival....
Marco Orsini speaks to Variety in an interview conducted at the recent El Gouna Film Festival....
Maja Doroteja Prelog’s “Cent’anni” won this year’s Docs-in-Progress Award given out by the Cannes Film Market with the support of IEFTA....
Divine Factory producer, and 2020 IEFTA Cannes Doc Winner, Alemberg Ang is selected for his project “Ninja from Manila” at the first ever TFL Comedy Lab....
Lilit Movsisyan's “Fight” now hs Lyon Capitale TV on board and it will also be pitched at Sunny Side of the Doc during a Panorama on Central & Eastern Europe....
"Gross National Happiness” [produced or directed by] Arun Bhattari, and Lara Sousa’s “The Ship and the Sea” selected to receive grant funding from Sundance...
The daily Berlinale Africa Hub Talks give an insight into the latest developments in the African film industry. International Emerging Film Talent Association (IEFTA) is the new partner of the Berlinale Africa Hub as host of the talk series, which takes place in cooperation with the World Cinema Fund, the Berlinale Co-Production Market, and Berlinale Talents....
IEFTA will participate in the Berlinale Africa Hub providing an international forum for communication and networking for African filmmakers and creatives, as well as for filmmakers who are active on the continent, in particular in its sub-Saharan regions....
Two filmmakers win the IEFTA Award to attend the Producers Workshop at the next Cannes Festival having been selected after six days of mentoring and pitching at Dhaka Doc Lab....