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Promoting Film and Cinema Culture in Libya.

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Empowering Change Through Storytelling

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Cinema Al-Rashid: The Lost Visual Memory of Tripoli

Osama Al-Fitouri: Work in Libya Was the Most Enjoyable and the Most Challenging

Libya in Global Cinema: Between Misrepresentation and the Absence of Self-Narrative

Sara Ben-Saud: Filming in Libya wasn’t possible because the insurance company wouldn’t cover production costs

À toi Jeddi (Dear Grandad): On a Libyan Identity in the Desert of Identities

Berenice Cinema: The End of a Century of Benghazi’s Visual Memory

Abdulaziz Lamlum: If You Can Produce a Film in Libya… You Can Produce It Anywhere in the World

The Message: A Cinematic Reading Between the Sacred and History

Faraj Mayouf: For Me, Cinema Is Not a Luxury, but a Mirror of the People