Mad Solution Launches Three-Month CineMAD Season Celebrating Arab World Festival Favorites Across MENA Region

[ad_1] Cairo-based movie and expertise group Mad Options is launching a three-month, pan-Arab world movie season known as CineMAD.

Billed as a first-of-its-kind regional initiative, CineMAD will carry a raft of high-profile Arab movies which have been feted on the competition circuit to cinemas throughout the Center East and North Africa.

Titles within the choice embody award-winning Oscar entries, Annemarie Jacir’s Palestine 36 (Palestine) Kaouther Ben Hania’s The Voice of Hind Rajab (Tunisia); breakouts by rising skills corresponding to Suzannah Mirghani’s Cotton Queen in addition to titles from the 2024 circuit together with Ghost Path by Jonathan Millet. (scroll down for full record).

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The titles will obtain both a large, restricted or one-night launch, relying on the place they're of their launch cycle.

Mad Options co-founders Alaa Karkouti and Maher Diab stated they'd created CineMAD to bridge the hole between competition acclaim and native audiences, with the initiative additionally aiming to foster collaboration between festivals, movie funds, embassies, cultural establishments, and the broader inventive neighborhood.

“CineMAD is about constructing an actual ecosystem for Arab movies — one which doesn’t finish on the competition pink carpet,” stated Alaa Karkouti and Maher Diab, Co-Founders of MAD Options.

“It’s about connecting movies, filmmakers, and audiences in a means that feels alive, inclusive, and cinematic. Partnering with strongly rooted cinema entities corresponding to Premiere, Empire, Filmlab and Simple marks the start of a game-changing period for the Arab movie trade. CineMAD represents the primary chapter in a bigger set of tasks designed to anchor Arab competition titles firmly inside mainstream cinema tradition — and we're proud to current one of the best Arab competition movies of 2025.”

CineMAD will launch in December 2025, with a particular opening-night occasion in Cairo titled “Drop The Beat”, hosted on the Premiere Nile Cinema and sponsored by Purple Bull.

This system will showcase brief movies that bridge cinema with the area’s fast-rising music scene: 60 Egyptian Kilos by Amr Salama, that includes Egyptian rap sensation Ziad Zaza; Smokey Eyes by Ali Ali, starring rap heavyweight Marwan Moussa; and Simo by Aziz Zoromba, that includes the hit observe “Ghaba” by Marwan Pablo.

Full CineMAD Lineup:• Palestine 36 by Annemarie Jacir — Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan• The Voice of Hind Rajab by Kaouther Ben Hania — Tunisia• Cotton Queen by Suzannah Mirghani — Sudan• As soon as Upon a Time in Gaza by Tarzan and Arab Nasser — Palestine• The Settlement by Mohamed Rashad — Egypt• Yunan by Ameer Fakher Eldin — Palestine, Qatar, Jordan, Saudi Arabia• My Father and Qaddafi by Jihan Ok — Libya• Thank You for Banking with Us by Leila Abbas — Palestine• The Vanishing by Karim Moussaoui — Tunisia• Behind the Palm Bushes by Meryem Benm’Barek — Morocco• The place the Wind Comes From by Amel Guellaty — Tunisia• Promised Sky by Erige Sehiri — Tunisia• Algiers by Chakib Taleb Bendiab — Algeria• A Chicken From Paradise by Murad Ben Cheikh — Tunisia• The Village Subsequent to Paradise by Mo Harawe — Somalia• Têtes Brûlées by Maja-Ajmia Yde Zellama — Belgium, Tunisia• Ghost Path by Jonathan Millet — France, Syria• Exile by Mehdi Hmili — Tunisia• Rat Gap by Mohamed El Samman — Egypt• 50 Metres by Yomna Khattab — Egypt• Lifeless Canine by Sarah Francis — Lebanon• 60 Egyptian Kilos by Amr Salama — Egypt• Smokey Eyes by Ali Ali — Egypt• Simo by Aziz Zoromba — Egypt