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....
“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....
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....
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”...
Alumni Filmmaker Zahraa Ghandour (Iraq) has been selected to participate in the IDFA Project Space with her Documentary Feature project “Women on my Life”...
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....
The project “Eat Bitter” from the Central African Republic, that IEFTA picked up last year at Durban have been selected to pitch at Sheffield’s DocsFest 2022 Meet Market....
IEFTA Alumni Sumon Delwar, Ali El Arabi, Mohamed Kordofani and Amjhad Abu Alala have all been selected and are participating in the Film Independent Global Media Makers LA Residency....
IEFTA alumni Ahmed Fawzi-Saleh and Morad Mostafa have been selected for two of the Cannes festival's mentorship and funding platforms...
IEFTA congratulates Aya Tallah Yusuf (Egypt), who has been selected to along with 9 other African film projects to receive $150,000 CAD in development and production grants....