Arab cinema or Arabic cinema refers to the film industry of the Arab world. Most productions are from the Egyptian cinema.
The Winds of the Aures is a 1967 Algerian war film directed by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina. It was entered into the 1967 Cannes Film Festival where it won the award for Best First Work. It was also entered into the 5th Moscow International Film Festival.
Yamina Bachir was an Algerian film director and screenwriter. Her film Rachida was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. According to Roy Armes, Rachida is 'the first 35mm feature directed by an Algerian woman in Algeria'. The film was primarily financed by French and European funding companies. It was popular in Algeria and was distributed internationally in France.
Mahama Johnson Traoré (1942–2010) was a Senegalese film director, writer, and co-founder of the Ouagadougou-based Pan-African Cinema Festival (FESPACO).
Hadj Smaine Mohamed Seghir was an Algerian actor, director and thespian who was born in 1932 in Constantine, Algeria, France.
Zeka Laplaine, sometimes credited as José Laplaine, is a director and actor from Ilebo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The child of a Portuguese father and Congolese mother, he moved to Europe when he was 18. His 1996 short film Le Clandestin was featured at the 2010 Amakula International Film Festival in Uganda. He portrayed a cowboy alongside Danny Glover in Death in Timbuktu, a film within a film in the Council of Europe Film Award-winning film, Bamako. Laplaine is a member of France's "Guilde Africaine des Realisateurs et Producteurs".
Cheikh Bouamama or Shaykh Bu 'Amamah led a popular resistance against French occupation in Algeria from 1881 to 1908.
The Higher Institute Of Cinema, also known as the Cairo Higher Institute of Cinema, Cairo Higher Film Institute, and other variants, is a film school in Cairo, Egypt. It is one of several institutes making up the Academy of Arts.
The cinema of Gabon has had an uneven history. Though President Omar Bongo and his wife, Josephine Bongo, encouraged filmmaking in the 1970s, there was a 20-year hiatus until filmmaking started to grow again in the new millennium.
Zakia Tahri, also known as Zakia Bouchaâla is a French-based filmmaker and actress of Moroccan descent.
Hassan Taxi is a 1982 Algerian Arabic-language comedy film directed by Mohamed Slim Riad.
Paris and Love is a 1972 romantic drama starring Salah Zulfikar and Sabah. It is directed by Mohamed Salman.
Mohamed Abdelkrim Derkaoui is a Moroccan director and producer.
The Barber of the Poor District is a 1982 Moroccan film directed by Mohamed Reggab and adapted from a play of the same title by Youssef Fadel. It was the director's sole feature film, and became a Moroccan cult classic. It was screened at the first edition of the National Film Festival in Rabat, where it received as a special mention and the 10th edition of the National Film Festival as part of a series on Moroccan classics. Internationally, the film was screened at Three Continents Festival in 1983, and the Berlin International Film Festival in 1982. The debts incurred for the production of his sole feature film led to Reggab being imprisoned.
Bamou is a 1983 Moroccan film directed by Driss Mrini.
Bachir Skiredj was a Moroccan actor, filmmaker, comedian, and screenwriter. A popular entertainer for decades, he was best known for his role in Mohamed Abderrahman Tazi's À la recherche du mari de ma femme, a box office success.
Mohamed Zineddaine is a Moroccan-Italian journalist, photographer, filmmaker, screenwriter and producer.
Mohamed Rachid Benhadj is an Algerian film director and screenwriter.
Inni Attahim is a 1960 Egyptian film written and directed by Hassan el-Imam. The script is written by Hassan el-Imam, Mohamed Othman and Mohammed Mostafa Samy. It stars Zubaida Tharwat, Salah Zulfikar and Emad Hamdy.
