The 7th edition of Amal ended last Saturday 31st October in the Teatro Principal with a closing ceremony in which the winners were awarded. The event was the highlight of nine days of cinema, dialogue and tolerance in the heart of Santiago de Compostela. The winners, many institutional representatives, authorities, members of the jury, directors and the media came together to celebrate Amal and to enjoy the concert of the French-Algerian musician Fayçal Salhi.     In the seven ...

INTERNATIONAL EURO ARAB FILM FESTIVAL, AMAL, which began in 2003, has been created with the aim to create collaboration in the audiovisual sector between Spain and the Arab world in order to promote both merging industries. The festival started as the first competitive festival of this kind in Spain and is organized by the Araguaney Foundation that was founded on 1984 by Dr. Ghaleb jaber Ibrahim, a plaestinian who has been living is Spain for more than 35 years.Both Foundation and festival are b...

The 22nd of October will begin the fifth edition of the International Euro Arab Film Festival AMAL 007. In the Aula Sociocultural Caixa Galicia will take place the inaugural ceremony of this unique festival in Spain and one of the most important of its kind in Europe. This V Edition is still working towards a better understanding between West and East through cinema, creating bonds among both cultures. At this ceremony there will be present, Ánxela Bugallo, Responsible of Culture and Sports in ...

Larry Levene, the director of the film, will be among the guests of the opening acto of AMAL’06 Festival Santiago de Compostela, 13 de october 2006.- A history of mutual discovery and intercultural dialogue, the documentary “César y Zaín” will be in charge of opening the International Euro-Arab Film Festival AMAL’06. The british director Larry Levene will be present on the opening act. He is known for films such as Una nube sobre Bhopal (2001) and El hambre del mundo explicada a mi hi...

From September 21st to the 31th, México City will witness the birth of DOCSDF, a forum, a meeting point where enthusiasts of the genre, film makers and producers, will have the oportunity to attend screenings of some of the genre’s highlights from recent years, from México and around the world.-This festival stems from the big lack México City -one of the biggest in the world- suffered, that of a large documentary film exhibition, like the ones cities like Madrid, Barcelona, Lisbon, Rome, N...

German director Roland Emmerich will be president of the International Jury of the Berlinale 2005. Emmerich’s international career began with the film Das Arche Noah Prinzip (The Noah’s Ark Principle) which screened at the Berlinale in 1984 and attracted worldwide attention. Hollywood discovered this great talent, who then went on to make Independence Day, Godzilla and The Patriot, all Oscar-crowned works. In 2004, with The Day After Tomorrow, Emmerich contributed to the ongoing debate on th...