The Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival’s Cinema industry section has announced the 10 film and doc projects from a wide range of Arab countries. These will soon be unveiled to prospective partners under the Cinemed and Aflamuna Professional Encounters initiative in tandem with Beirut-based cultural nonprofit Aflamuna.

The program, supported by France’s National Film Board Cnc, offers feature film professionals from Arab countries the opportunity to meet French and international professionals and decision-makers to stimulate co-productions and other forms of collaboration.

Emerging directors and producers from Egypt, Iraq, Sudan, Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen and Morocco will take part in the Cinemed Meetings Oct.22-23 in Montpellier, France.

“For this third edition of Cinemed and Aflamuna Professional Encounters, we are more than confident of the relevance of our collaboration with Aflamuna,” said Montpellier fest director Christophe Leparc in a statement. Leparc added that the initiative has been bearing fruit with at least...