{"id":2263041,"date":"2026-02-02T15:32:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T15:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2263041"},"modified":"2026-02-02T15:32:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T15:32:17","slug":"arab-cinema-in-focus-at-rotterdam-filmmakers-talk-funding-hurdles-streaming-benefits-and-downsides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/arab-cinema-in-focus-at-rotterdam-filmmakers-talk-funding-hurdles-streaming-benefits-and-downsides\/","title":{"rendered":"Arab Cinema in Focus at Rotterdam: Filmmakers Talk Funding Hurdles, Streaming Benefits and Downsides"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The 55th edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) put a spotlight on \u201cArab Cinema in Motion\u201d on Monday, a panel discussion featuring The Arab director Malek Bensma\u00efl<\/a> from Algeria, Home Bitter Home director Marie-Rose Osta<\/a>, who is Lebanese, and Egyptian director Marwan Hamed<\/a>, who is the focus of an IFFR retrospective this year.<\/p>\n

The IFFR Pro panel was designed to explore \u201cthe present realities of the film industry in the Arab world,\u201d a preview of the event had highlighted. \u201cFilmmakers from across the IFFR 2026 selection join industry guests to examine distinct modes of production across disparate Arab cinemas \u2013 from blockbusters to independent works \u2013 and the shifting sources of financing shaping their production.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among other topics of debate were the pros and cons of streaming platforms. \u201cStreaming now is, in a way, a big chunk of the revenue,\u201d accounting for 50 percent-plus of a movie\u2019s revenue, Hamed<\/a> said. Streaming…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 55th edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) put a spotlight on \u201cArab Cinema in Motion\u201d on Monday, a panel discussion featuring The Arab director Malek Bensma\u00efl from Algeria, Home Bitter Home director Marie-Rose Osta, who is Lebanese, and Egyptian director Marwan Hamed, who is the focus of an IFFR retrospective this year. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2263042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2263041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Arab-Cinema-in-Focus-at-Rotterdam-Filmmakers-Talk-Funding-Hurdles.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2263041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2263043,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263041\/revisions\/2263043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2263042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2263041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2263041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2263041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}