World's renowned star Ali Suliman joins ACC talks live on Instagram

CAIRO - 16 August 2020: Palestinian star Ali Suliman will be the upcoming guest speaker on ACC Talks, by the Arab Cinema Center, live on Instagram. Interviewed by film Critic Ola Al-Sheikh, the new episode is scheduled to stream on Monday, August 17, at 06:00 PM (GMT).

Streaming time of the ACC talks in Arab countries:

Palestine, Syria, KSA, Lebanon, Jordan, Kuwait - 09:00 PM

Egypt, Sudan - 08:00 PM

UAE - 10:00 PM

Tunisia - 07:00 PM

Morocco - 06:00 PM

Ali Suliman is a Palestinian actor who is best known for international award-winning works including Chronicles of a Disappearance (1996), and The Looming Tower (2018). He studied Drama and Acting at the Acting School in 2000. In 2005, he landed his breakthrough in Hany Abu-Assad's Paradise Now, the Academy Award nominee in Best Foreign Language category. He starred in a slew of high-profile films that propelled his name as an international actor landing roles in more than 30 films across more than 10 countries, such as: The Kingdom (2007) by Peter Berg, A.K.A Nadia (2015) by TovaAscher, Disney Ramallah (2014) by Tamara Erde, From A to B (2014) and The Worthy (2016) by Ali Mostafa, Rattle the Cage (2015) by Majid Al Ansari, and It Must Be Heaven (2019) by Elia Suleiman. His upcoming film Huda's Salon is directed by Hany Abu-Assad is slated to release soon in cinemas. His exceptional performance in The Last Friday (2011) by Yahya Alabdallah won him Best Actor Award at Dubai International Film Festival and Carthage Film Festival.

Based in the UAE, Ola Al-Sheikh is a Palestinian film critic and jury member of the Critics' Awards for Arab Films and Arab Critics' Awards for European Films. Al-Sheikh has been in charge of the Cinema pages in the prestigious Emirates Today newspaper for five years, and she also writes film reviews for the Al-Hayat newspaper. A member of "Critics Without Borders" in Sweden, she has been part of the selection committee for MAFF Development Funding, the Malmo Arab Film Festival initiative that supports projects which focus on issues that concern Arab culture, identity and exile or are co-produced by Swedish and Arab producers.

The ACC Talks is a series of live weekly interviews where a jury member from The Critics Awards for Arab Films and The Arab Critics' Awards for European Films hosts interviews with international filmmakers. These talks will be available with Arabic and English subtitles across the ACC’s social media accounts, as well as on its website, acc.film.

Organized by MAD Solutions in 2015, the Arab Cinema Center (ACC) is a nonprofit organization registered in Amsterdam. The ACC is an international promotional platform for Arab cinema as it provides the filmmaking industry with a professional window to connect with their counterparts from all over the world through a number of events that it organizes. The ACC also provides networking opportunities with representatives of companies and institutions specialized in co-production and international distribution, among others. The ACC's activities vary between film markets, stands, and pavilions, networking sessions and one-on-one meetings bringing together Arab and foreign filmmakers, welcome parties, as well as meetings with international organizations and festivals, and the issuance of the Arab Cinema Magazine to be distributed at the leading international film festivals and markets.​Furthermore, newsletter subscription is now available on the ACC's website, allowing users to obtain digital copies of the Arab Cinema Magazine, as well as news on the ACC's activities, notifications of application dates for grants, festivals and offers from educational and training institutions, updates on Arab films participating at festivals, exclusive news on the Arab Cinema LAB, and highlights from the ACC's partners and their future projects.

The ACC also launched an English-language Arab Cinema Guide, available on its website, which is a comprehensive cinematic guide that comprises a variety of tools presented collectively for the first time to offer information on Arab cinema to filmmakers inside and outside of the Arab world. It also aims to facilitate filmmakers' access to international markets and help film industry representatives to easily identify Arab film productions.