{"id":8393,"date":"2024-10-01T12:38:09","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T11:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=8393"},"modified":"2026-09-04T03:45:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T02:45:22","slug":"oran-international-arab-film-festival-returns-with-a-special-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=8393","title":{"rendered":"Oran International Arab Film Festival Returns with a Special Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The director of the <a class=\"dzsl-auto-link dzsl-external\" data-dzsl=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:Search?search=Oran%20International%20Arab%20Film\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Oran International Arab Film<\/a> Festival, Abdelkader Jeriou, has announced that the 12th edition of the festival, set to take place from October 4 to 10, is making a strong comeback with a distinctive program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During a press conference, Jeriou emphasized that the event serves as a vital platform for Arab filmmakers, offering them a space to exchange ideas and engage in cinematic dialogue. He credited the Minister of <a class=\"dzsl-auto-link dzsl-internal\" data-dzsl=\"internal\" href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?cat=41\">Culture<\/a> and Arts, Soraya Mouloudji, for her efforts in reviving this significant festival, which holds both Arab and global importance, following a six-year hiatus. With this revival, Oran is once again poised to become the capital of Arab cinema.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jeriou also revealed that 60 films have been selected from a pool of 400 entries submitted via the festival\u2019s <a class=\"dzsl-auto-link dzsl-internal\" data-dzsl=\"internal\" href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=69519\">digital platform<\/a> to compete for the prestigious Golden and Silver Wihr awards in this 12th edition. The selected films include 11 feature films, 14 short films, 8 short documentaries, and 10 long documentaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a special segment, 22 <a class=\"dzsl-auto-link dzsl-internal\" data-dzsl=\"internal\" href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?cat=48\">Palestinian<\/a> films under the theme \u201cGaza, Point Zero\u201d will be screened on October 7, marking the first anniversary of the Al-Aqsa Flood and showing solidarity with the Palestinian people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more updates, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\">DZWATCH.DZ<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Author:<\/strong> Nor-Eleslam<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The director of the Oran International Arab Film Festival, Abdelkader Jeriou, has announced that the 12th edition of the festival, set to take place from October 4 to 10, is making a strong comeback with a distinctive program. During a press conference, Jeriou emphasized that the event serves as a vital platform for Arab filmmakers, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":16,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8393"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72451,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8393\/revisions\/72451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}