Through the full schedule of this year's edition has yet to be announced, organisers have released the names of 50 films that will be screened.
We speak exclusively to the Irish-Iraqi curator, writer and founder of Habibi Collective, Róisín Tapponi - a pioneer in digital archiving of films from the MENA region, with a platform that continues to champion diversity and representation.
“Turkish people wake up every day to see a black and white photo of a woman who has been murdered on their Instagram feed, on their newspapers, on their TV screens.”
Three out of the four selections are feature-length films.
The first Tunisian female film producer will be joining an esteemed panel of jurors for the 77th edition of the film festival, slated to go ahead in September 2020.
Dynamic Arab voices are finding their audiences more easily than ever before.
