BBC Arabic Festival 2017

BBC Arabic Festival 2017

BBC Arabic Festival 2017 Trailer

Interviews with the rest of the Festival's directors can be seen on the Directors Speak page.

Winner of the 2017 BBC Arabic Young Journalist Award, Mohamed Jabaly. He received equipment and mentoring towards his next project, a feature documentary entitled Stateless. It will be ready in the spring of 2019. Mohamed won for his feature documentary, Ambulance.

To learn more about Mohamed and his new film, click here.

The BBC Arabic Young Journalist Award offers bespoke support to a promising young filmmaker under 30 years old. The winner of the 2015 award, Jordanian filmmaker Jumana Saadeh, returned in 2017 to present her film: No Kids Land.

Q&A: Death in Mecca
BBC Arabic producers Eli Malki and Christine Garabedian discuss "Death in Mecca", a documentary five years in the making, with BBC Producer, Brigitte Scheffer.
Q&A: Stories From a Changing Arab World
Festival Director, Sheyma Buali, speaks with four filmmakers whose films made up the session of short films entitled, ‘Stories from a Changing Arab World’: Kadar Fayyad, Rana Kazkaz, Anas Khalaf and Mohamed Hisham.
Q&A: Roshmia
BBC Arabic presenter, Tony ElKhoury, hosts a one-on-one Q&A with filmmaker and journalist, Salim Abu Jabal about his feature documentary, Roshmia.

Best Short Documentary Winner
Maysoon ElMassry - Aida
Best Reportage Winner
Kadar Fayyad - Fate, Wherever it Takes Us
Best Feature Documentary
Liliana Marinho de Sousa - The Art of Moving
Best Short Film Winners
Rana Kazkaz & Anas Khalaf - Mare Nostrum

2017

The guide for the BBC Arabic Festival 2017 can be downloaded here.