NADA AZHARI GILLON (SYRIA)  

 

A Syrian French critic mainly interested in French, Arab and Asian Cinema (Iranian, Indian…), she collaborates regularly with Arabic prestigious magazines and newspapers like Al-Hayat Newspaper (2000-2018), Al Jazeera Documentary (since 2011), , Al-Araby Al-Jadeed Newspaper (since 2018) and Arab Cinema Magazine (was published in Beirut).

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Author of “Al Cinema al-irâniyya al-râhina (“Contemporary Iranian Cinema”), 2012.

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Member of  The International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI), Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC), Union des Journalistes de Cinéma in FRANCE (UJC), Académie des Lumières in France.

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She covers cinema’s festivals for the press, participates in many Internationals juries (Vesoul, Warsaw, Istanbul, Algeria, El-Gouna, Dohuk, Bangalore, Kolkata, Kerala, Dhaka…), and advises some festivals in France and Asia about their programs of Arabic cinema