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"Ahmad Abdalla’s ‘19B’ Explores Clash of Cultures in Cairo as City Modernizes

Egyptian helmer-writer Ahmad Abdalla, known for being part of the new wave of independent cinema in the Arab world with his early films “Heliopolis” (2009) and “Microphone” (2010), returns to the Cairo Film Festival with t"

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"he world premiere of his sixth feature, “19B.” It marks the sole film from the host country in the International Competition lineup.

The multi-layered narrative centers on the elderly caretaker of an abandoned Cairo villa known as 19B. The owners have been absent for so long that no one even knows how to contact them, and the building is falling apart. Nevertheless, the caretaker is happy with his jerry-rigged life there, sharing the space with abandoned dogs and cats, and drinking tea with the doorman of a high-rise down the block. But things change when the old man is bullied and threatened by the aggressive ex-con Nasr, the leader of a street gang.

Talking to Variety from Berlin where he is finishing the film’s color-grading, Abdalla reveals that he wrote the film during the lonely days and nights of the pandemic, when fear became his greatest obsession. He says, “The film was inspired by an old guy I used to pass while walking in the Zamalek neighborhood, who was feeding cats and dogs in the street regardless of how broke he was. I started imagining his life and mixed it with my own questions.”

Ahmad Abdalla

Although the story reveals a lot about contemporary Cairo, one could also see it being remade in another culture. The nameless protagonist is guarding an almost demolished house that no one cares about anymore. He clings to it as it connects him to his own past. The building and the stray animals give his solitude meaning since his loved ones are gone. Abdalla says, “In Cairo, the problem of modernizing the city vs the old city has been a cultural issue for years and years. And the idea of the old man who is unable to simply accept that the world is changing around him, and that this change will reach him eventually is a timeless story.”

While the protagonist holds fast to his old ways, many changes are taking place just outside the villa’s walls. These are symbolized by the youths, led by the ruthless Nasr, who charge motorists for street parking, including in the space outside the villa’s gate, and sell various black-market vices including alcohol and cigarettes. Abdalla says, “Egypt has always been a ground for clashing philosophies, ideologies and lifestyles. I have always been fascinated with the question of co-existence and how we can all live together and share the same resources.”

As the dignified oldster referred to only as “the old guy” or “Haj,” Sayed Ragab is a revelation. Abdalla says, “When I was pursuing my career as a filmmaker, I used to watch a lot of independent theater. This is where I met Sayed Ragab for the first time and I was fascinated by him as an actor ever since.” As time went on, Ragab became an established star and Abdalla finally found the right part for his talent in “19B.” He notes, “I was astonished how smart and sensitive to the topic he was after the first reading.”

Also working for the first time with Abdalla is Ahmed Khaled Saleh who plays the antagonist Nasr. Abdalla says, “His amazing performance added a lot to the story and to his character.”

The film also f

"‘We Need People Who Are Taking Risks’: Cairo Industry Head Reem Allam on Supporting Bold, Boundary-Pushing Arab Filmmakers

The fifth edition of the Cairo Film Festival’s industry arm, Cairo Industry Days, will look to further cement its growing reputation as one of the Arab film world’s premier ind"

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"ustry platforms when it runs from Nov. 17 – 22.

Launched by former festival president Mohamed Hefzy, the Egyptian producer who stepped down from his post earlier this year, the event has quickly taken a place alongside the Marrakech Film Festival’s Atlas Workshops and the Red Sea Film Festival’s Souk as key meeting points connecting Arab and international filmmakers.

“It’s both challenging but also exciting,” said newly appointed industry head Reem Allam, about taking up her post along with incoming festival director Amir Ramses and new Cairo Film Connection manager Lynda Belkhiria. “We’re not bound by traditional ways of doing things. There’s some freedom in that.”

This year’s event will include a wide-ranging program of masterclasses, conversations, workshops and panel discussions featuring award-winning filmmakers and industry experts from around the world. Running alongside it is the Cairo Film Connection co-production market, which showcases 15 projects from 10 countries across North Africa and the Middle East.

Among the highlights are masterclasses with Hungarian director Béla Tarr, French filmmaker Mathieu Kassovitz and Japanese director Naomi Kawase, who will lead the international competition jury; and conversations with Egyptian screen star Lebleba, who will receive a Golden Pyramid Lifetime Achievement Award at the festival, and Egyptian filmmaker Kamla Abu Zekry, who will be honored with the Faten Hamama Excellence Award.

Along with those conversations, the festival has expanded its program of workshops for Egyptian filmmakers, offering the local industry practical tools that delve deeper into craft than the public sessions. “We want Industry Days to not just be a place where young filmmakers hear an inspiring talk for two hours, but to actually be a place where they can develop their skills,” Allam said.

The multi-day workshops include an immersive, five-day session with American cinematographer Irvin Liu focused on the art and craft of storytelling and a 10-day workshop led by Tarr. The director will offer one-on-one mentoring to 10 up-and-coming Egyptian filmmakers, who will use the course to develop and shoot a scene under the Hungarian screen legend’s tutelage. “It’s another level of giving developmental opportunities for filmmakers to develop their skills and find a cinematic voice and get inspired by alternative ways of filmmaking,” said Allam.

Another industry session will look at the growing move toward eco-friendly film production through a distinctly regional lens, with several filmmakers appearing in conversation alongside Bassam Alasad, the founder of Jordan’s Greener Screen initiative. The panel will examine how film productions in the Middle East and North Africa can be more environmentally friendly and utilize sustainable practices. Of Greener Screen, Allam noted that it’s “inspiring to see an Arab initiative encouraging Arab producers to be more green.”

Meanwhile Cairo Industry Days will shine a spotlight on the growing Saudi Arabian film industry, which has been bolstered by a

"Cairo Festival Director Amir Ramses on Competing With Rival Arab Fests for Region’s Top Talent

Egyptian filmmaker Amir Ramses is no stranger to the Cairo Intl. Film Festival. The director’s feature debut, “End of the World,” bowed at the prestigious Arab fest in 2005, and he returned 15 years later"

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" with “The Curfew,” bookending a chapter of his career in which the prolific filmmaker garnered worldwide acclaim.

But for the Cairo-born Ramses, who was appointed festival director earlier this year, the homecoming is a return to his roots in more ways than one. It was at the long-running festival that Ramses “was introduced to the many worlds of cinema,” and accepting the position of festival chief “was a way to give back and pay my respect to an institution that made me the filmmaker I am today,” the director told Variety.

It’s a transition year for the Cairo Film Festival, which runs from Nov. 13 – 22. Ramses was appointed just weeks after Egyptian producer Mohamed Hefzy stepped down as festival president, after a four-year tenure in which he helped to revamp the leading Arab event, while incoming industry head Reem Allam will take the reins of the Cairo Industry Days platform.

Ramses served as artistic director of Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival from 2017 to 2021, a period in which he helped land the glitzy Red Sea resort on the world cinema map. “The reason why I was brought to Cairo in the first place is because I came from Gouna, and I managed to get the kind of lineup that we brought to Gouna from the first edition. Managing to start a festival where you have in your competition the Golden Palm from Cannes, winners from Locarno, from Karlovy Vary,” he said.

“That was my first target, to be able to prove that this experience is repeatable. My main concern was recreating my Gouna experience as an artistic director, recreating the ability to make Cairo as important in its film lineup as it is in its industry section.”

Ramses’ feature “The Curfew” premiered at the Cairo Intl. Film Festival in 2020.

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It was Hefzy who launched Cairo Industry Days five years ago, quickly building it into one of the leading industry events in the Arab film world. Yet despite its success, Ramses still saw an opportunity this year to give the platform an “upgrade.”

“It has been doing great, it has been taking great steps. But after five years, if you don’t change, you’re getting smaller,” he said. “I wanted to build on the success that happened in years before and take things a step further.”

One notable change has been to the festival’s program of workshops and masterclasses, which this year will focus on greater engagement with the Egyptian film industry. “When you do a masterclass, usually it’s open for the public, media, cinephiles,” said Ramses. “That makes amazing masterclasses, but the fact that they’re open to a general audience makes them a bit generic. You have to be on the level of each and every one of the audience.” This year the festival wanted to take “the next step,” he said, by offering practical tools for Egyptian filmmakers.

To that end, Cairo is hosting a 10-day workshop led by iconic director Béla Tarr in which he will offer one-on-one mentoring to young filmmakers, who will use the course to develop and shoot a scene based on a theme proposed by the Hungarian screen legend. “T

"Cairo Film Festival Kicks Off With New Leadership Team at Helm of Arab Film Showcase

The Cairo Intl. Film Festival kicked off Nov. 13 with the Middle East premiere of Steven Spielberg’s “The Fabelmans,” and a new-look leadership team bringing fresh energy to the grande dame of Arab cinema.

This ye"

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"ar’s event marks the first as festival director for Egyptian filmmaker Amir Ramses, who was appointed earlier this year, as well as industry head Reem Allam.

Ramses was tapped just weeks after Egyptian producer Mohamed Hefzy stepped down as festival president, after a four-year tenure in which he helped to revamp the long-running event.

Hefzy was particularly instrumental in expanding the fest’s international reach, bolstering ties with counterparts overseas, and launching an industry component that has quickly established itself as one of the leading platforms for filmmakers from the region.

The festival’s 44th edition, which runs until Nov. 22, unspools amid a crowded fall calendar of Arab fests, running parallel to Marrakech (Nov. 11 – 19) and on the eve of Saudi Arabia’s splashy Red Sea Film Festival, which hosts its second edition in Jeddah from Dec. 1 – 10.

Meanwhile, Egypt’s El Gouna Film Festival, which for five years had occupied a late-October slot and brought a touch of star power to the Red Sea resort town, was put on pause this year. Its future is uncertain.

Speaking to Variety on the eve of opening night, Ramses — who was the artistic director in El Gouna from 2017-2021 — described a spirit of healthy competition among the region’s festivals, who he sees less as rivals than collaborators working toward a common goal of bolstering Arab cinema.

“We’re talking on a weekly basis about where we are, how we can support each other,” he said. “It’s not about taking the lead. You can’t build the region on one strong festival. We complement each other.”

In his first year in Cairo, Ramses has nevertheless been keen to secure the kind of lineup that helped land El Gouna on the map. Along with the regional premiere of “The Fabelmans,” he’s helped attract a strong slate of titles already making waves on the international festival circuit.

Among the films celebrating regional premieres in Cairo are Carla Simón’s Berlin Golden Bear Winner “Alcarràs”; Alice Diop’s Venice Grand Jury Prize and Lion of the Future award winner “Saint Omer”; Alejandro Loayza Grisi’s Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner “Utama”; Sally El Hosaini’s Toronto opening film “The Swimmers”; and a host of award winners from this year’s Cannes Film Festival, including Lukas Dhont’s Grand Prix winner “Close,” Jerzy Skolimowski’s Jury Prize-winning “EO” and Riley Keough and Gina Gammell Camera d’Or winner “War Pony.”

At the same time, the longest continually running showcase of Arab cinema will look to shine a spotlight on the region’s emerging and established talents. In the international competition, Egyptian director Ahmad Abdalla’s “19B,” which celebrates its world premiere, will screen among 14 titles vying for the festival’s Golden Pyramid, including Lebanese director Ali Cherri’s Cannes Directors’ Fortnight player “The Dam.”

Ahmad Abdalla’s “19B” has its world premiere in the festival’s international competition.

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The festival’s Horizons of Arab Cinema competition, meanwhile, opens with the world prem

"Missouri State edges Youngstown State 25-22

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Jason Shelley threw for 221 yards and a touchdown and Missouri State beat Youngstown State 25-22 on Saturday night in a game featuring seven lead changes.

Missouri State's 92-yard scoring drive in the fourth quarter, capped by She"

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"lley’s 9-yard touchdown pass to Tyrone Scott with 8:23 remaining, proved to be the game-winning score. The drive included four third-down conversions, including a third-and-18 completion.

It secured Shelley’s sixth fourth-quarter comeback in two seasons.

Kevon Latulas had 14 carries for 78 yards and a score for Missouri State (4-6, 2-5). Scott made five grabs for 58 yards and a touchdown.

Jaleel McLaughlin led Youngstown State (6-4, 4-3) with 227 yards rushing and a touchdown on 28 carries.

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"Muhammad Al-Makhlif

General Assembly

City: Deer Al Zour

Birth Date: Marrat, 1975

Degree: Master's Degree in Law

Political Bloc: Provincial councils

Bachelor’s degree from the Faculty of Law, University of Aleppo

Diploma in management and accounting

Higher diploma in judicial studies

Master’s degree"

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" in private law

Member of the Executive Office of Deir Ezzor province

Member of the General Secretariat of the Revolutionary Political Commission of Deir Ezzor province

Member of the Revolutionary Council for Conciliation and Arbitration

Head of the local council in the town of Marrat, Deir Ezzor

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"SON NAMED IN SOUTH KOREA’S WORLD CUP SQUAD DESPITE FRACTURED EYE SOCKET

Son Heung-min has been included in South Korea's 26-man squad for the World Cup despite the Tottenham forward's injury.

The 30-year-old sustained a fractured eye socket playing against Marseille in a Champions League fixture e"

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"arlier this month, putting his participation in serious doubt.

However, Son assured South Korea fans this week that he would be on the plane to Qatar.

""I just wanted to take a moment to say thank you all for the messages of support I have received over the last week,"" the forward wrote on Instagram on Wednesday.

""I have read so many of them and truly, truly appreciate you all.

""In a tough time I received a lot of strength from you. Playing for your country at the World Cup is the dream of so many children growing up, just as it was one of mine too.

""I won’t miss this for the world. I can’t wait to represent our beautiful country. See you soon.""

Son has now officially been included in South Korea's travelling part for the tournament that starts on November 20, with their first Group H assignment taking place four days later against Uruguay.

Head coach Paulo Bento was not able to offer clarity on when Son could start training prior to that game.

In quotes reported by BBC Sport, Bento said: ""We don't have that information yet.

""We are in contact with him, with the Tottenham medical department. We need to wait, we need to analyse day by day his situation.

""We have time to decide and the most important is he recovers as well as possible, he feels comfortable and then we will take the final decision.""

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"South Korea’s Yoon calls for greater co-operation with China, Japan

By Joyce Lee

SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol on Saturday proposed a mechanism for three-way dialogue with China and Japan including a leadership summit to address issues such as security and climate change.

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"At a summit of leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) plus China, Japan and South Korea, Yoon urged stronger joint efforts to overcome complex future crises, such as those stemming from war and rights abuses as well as risks to security of food and energy brought by climate change.

Yoon also said North Korea’s series of provocations and attempts to boost its nuclear and missile capabilities were a serious threat to the international community.

He stressed that if North Korea launched another intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) and conducted its seventh nuclear test, the international community should respond with one voice, the presidential office said in a statement.

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At the same time, South Korea would seek economic support for North Korea if it decided to denuclearise.

ASEAN leaders expressed concern over North Korea’s nuclear programme, which defies international and United Nations norms, calling for Pyongyang to stop threatening regional peace and respond to denuclearisation talks, the South Korean presidential office said.

(Reporting by Joyce Lee and Minwoo Park; Editing by Clarence Fernandez and Stephen Coates)

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"Biden to meet with top US allies Japan and South Korea following midterm boost

By Betsy Klein and Phil Mattingly, CNN

President Joe Biden landed in Cambodia on Saturday still reveling in midterm election results that have produced an unexpected boost at home for his second two years in office.

Th"

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"e scale of the challenges abroad, and the effort to translate 21 months of intensive engagement into tangible results for US alliances, will put the value of that political capital on the international stage to the test even as votes are still being counted.

Biden is set to confront a series of stark challenges in his sit-down with Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, critical allies in an Indo-Pacific region rattled by an increasingly belligerent North Korea. An assertive and confrontational China, long a central animating issue for the Biden administration, also looms large.

Biden will also meet with Kishida and Yoon individually before their trilateral meeting.

Biden’s stop at the Asian nations summit comes as advisers see a clear boost from bucking the historical and political trends in the midterm elections. While Biden’s message won’t shift dramatically, the weight behind it is unmistakably more robust after American voters delivered a message that surpassed the hopes of even the most optimistic White House officials.

The trio of world leaders previously met on the sidelines of the NATO Summit in June, pledging to enhance cooperation — a complicated task for the major US allies that have a historically fraught relationship.

But that cooperation is imperative as recent, stepped-up aggression from North Korea will be top of mind for the trio of leaders Sunday. North Korea has conducted missile launches 32 days this year, according to a CNN count of both ballistic and cruise missiles. By contrast, it conducted only four tests in 2020, and eight in 2021.

National security adviser Jake Sullivan suggested Saturday the meeting will not lead to specific deliverables, telling reporters aboard Air Force One that the leaders will “be able to discuss broader security issues in the Indo-Pacific and also, specifically, the threats posed by North Korea’s missile and nuclear programs.”

The trilateral comes one day ahead of a high-stakes, one-on-one meeting for Biden with China’s leader Xi Jinping, their first in-person encounter since Biden took office. That meeting will take place on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Bali.

Speaking to reporters Sunday morning, Biden said he was entering the meeting with Xi in a position of relative strength.

“I know I’m coming in stronger,” he said, noting he knew Xi well and there was “very little misunderstanding” between the two leaders.

“We just got to figure out what the red lines are and what the most important things are to each of us going into the next few years,” Biden said.

Biden, Yoon, and Fumio will also discuss Monday’s meeting during the trilateral meeting.

“One thing that President Biden certainly wants to do with our closest allies is preview what he intends to do, and also ask the leaders of (South Korea) and Japan, ‘What would you like me to raise? What do you want me to go in with?'” Sullivan said, adding that it “will be a topic but it will not be the main event of the trilateral.”

Earlier Sunday, Biden will attend

"Biden seeks North Korea strategy in talks with Japan, South Korea before Xi Jinping meeting at G20

A record-breaking spate of launches by the North in recent weeks sent fears soaring the reclusive regime will soon carry out its seventh nuclear test

Biden will use his talks with Xi on Monday to urge "

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"China to use its influence as the North’s main ally to press Kim Jong-un’s regime to cool down

US President Joe Biden will seek ways to rein in Pyongyang after its barrage of missile tests in talks with South Korean and Japanese leaders on Sunday, a day before a high-stakes encounter with China’s Xi Jinping.

A record-breaking spate of launches by the North in recent weeks has sent fears soaring that the reclusive regime will soon carry out its seventh nuclear test.

The White House says Biden will press China to curb Pyongyang’s activities when he holds his first face-to-face meeting with Xi on Monday on the sidelines of a G20 summit in Indonesia.

Biden will meet his South Korean counterpart Yoon Suk-yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Sunday to discuss ways to address the threat posed by the North’s “unlawful weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programmes”, the White House said.

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Raising the stakes: How North Korea became a nuclear state

Raising the stakes: How North Korea became a nuclear state

The three-way meeting on the sidelines of an East Asia Summit in Phnom Penh comes after flurry of tests by the North earlier this month, including an intercontinental ballistic missile.

Pyongyang ramped up its launches in response to large-scale US-South Korean air exercises, which the North described as “aggressive and provocative”.

Biden will use his closely watched talks with Xi on Monday to urge China to use its influence as North Korea’s main ally to press Kim Jong-un’s regime to cool down.

US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said the president would not make demands but would warn Xi that further missile and nuclear build-up would mean the United States boosting its military presence in the region – something Beijing bitterly opposes.

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“North Korea represents a threat not just to the United States, not just to [South Korea] and Japan but to peace and stability across the entire region,” Sullivan told reporters.

Biden flew to Phnom Penh from the COP27 climate conference as part of US efforts to boost its influence in Southeast Asia as a counter to China.

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China has been flexing its muscles – through trade, diplomacy and military clout – in recent years in a region it sees as its strategic backyard.

Biden took a veiled swipe at Beijing in talks with leaders from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) regional bloc.

He said the United States would work with Asean to “defend against the significant threats to rules-based order and threats to the rule of law”.

What is the Apec forum?

13 Mar 2019

Sunday’s East Asia Summit rounds off the first leg of a trilogy of summits, with the G20 on the holiday island of Bali and an Apec gatheri