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Cash-Strapped Hollywood Could Turn to Qatar, Which Is Making Moves at Cannes
Cash-strapped Hollywood could turn to Qatar, which is making moves at Cannes.
Qatar, the tiny Arab state rich in oil and gas that recently offered to replace Donald Trump’s Air Force One with a $400 million jet likened to a “palace in the sky,” is at Cannes signaling its ambitions to take its nascent film and TV business to the next level. Its artistic advisor is Palestinian auteur Elia Suleiman, know for movies addressing the long-running Arab-Israeli conflicts such as “Divine Intervention,” “The Time That Remains” and most recently “It Must Be Heaven,” which premiered at Cannes in 2019. At Cannes, DFI CEO Fatma Hassan Alremaihi will be unveiling plans for how it will transform its existing Ajyal Film Festival dedicated to youth and family-friendly cinema into a more ambitious international event for a broader audience.
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