Lebanon war film takes award at Dubai film festival
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"Under the Bombs," a movie about interfaith love during the 2006 war in Lebanon, was named best film in Dubai's awards for Arab cinema, in a year when films about conflict abounded.
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The Toronto International Film Festival opened on Thursday with drama "Fugitive Pieces" telling a poetic tale that asks audiences to find hope even when faced with atrocities of war.
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Hollywood, Bollywood and Arab stars  descended on Dubai on Sunday for the start of a film festival  that sees itself as a cultural bridge between the West and the  Arab world.
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A film about Iraqi children victims of war &quot;Turtles can fly&quot; directed by Iranian Bahman Ghobadi won the Concha de Oro (Golden Shell) at the prestigious San Sebastian film festival.
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Two very different movies about the Iraq  war are among the favorites for awards at this year&#39;s Venice  film festival as it passes the halfway stage, and an unusually  high number of male leads have stood out.
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A Baghdad correspondent assesses four recent films about the war.
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Welcome has taken a rocket opening in the UAE according to the reports by its overseas distributor Indian Films-Studio 18
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Events in Beirut expose the divisions of a small state on the faultlines of the Middle East
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An image of a group of young Lebanese driving a car through bombed-out South Beirut, taken by Spencer Platt of Getty Images Inc., won the top World Press Photo prize for news photography on Friday.
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The Toronto International Film Festival offers a glimpse at next year's potential nominees
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British films triumphed at  the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday with veteran Ken Loach&#039;s  war-themed &quot;The Wind That Shakes the Barley&quot; winning the  coveted Palme d&#039;Or and newcomer Andrea Arnold picking up the  Jury Prize for &quot;Red Road.&quot;
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The director will be  honoured at the Dubai International Film Festival.
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Robert Redford's war on terrorism saga, "Lions for Lambs," with Tom Cruise and Meryl Streep, will premiere at the 51st London Film Festival.
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A Libyan singer has won the Arab version of the Super Star singing competition staged in the Lebanese capital. Edging out Palestinian Ammar Hasan, Ayman al-Athar persuaded a majority of the 3.2 million viewers
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BEIRUT -- A racket filled the air outside Mohammed Jassar's shop in a swath of Beirut devastated in this summer's war with Israel. Hammers delivered a cadence to the clamor of bulldozers, saws and drills trying to rebuild. The noise was almost as loud as the invective these days in Lebanese...
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Boiling the complexities of the Middle East down into a 106-minute film about a Palestinian woman's lemon trees and tensions arising when Israel's defense minister moves next door risk over-simplifying the issues.
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Lebanon's death toll in more than three weeks of Israel-Hezbollah fighting has reached more than 900, Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora said Thursday in a video statement to an Islamic conference in Malaysia.