We are proud to announce that two Close Up projects have been selected to participate at the FIFDH Impact Days in Geneva! Among the 110 international […]

Greetings from Amsterdam! ✨✨ We are very happy to share with you that we had a Close Up alumni gathering in Amsterdam earlier in November!  It […]

This is the end of the two weeks long residency fellowship offered by Silver Sun Foundation in Woodstock NY, to the project team of LET’S PLAY […]

Congratulations to director Hussein Al-Assadi and producer Huda Al-Kadhimi! Their project SHE WAS NOT ALONE was selected to participate in the Project Market of the Red […]

Congratulations to our 2021/2022 cohort of filmmakers Asmahan Bkerat and Ban Maraqa, whose project CONCRETE LAND received the Sundance Production Grant! A total of 35 projects […]

Congratulations to directors Basel Adaraa, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor and Hamdan Balal who received the IDFA Bertha Fund Europe Grant for their project NO OTHER LAND. […]

We are extremely happy to announce that Baghdad On Fire was aired on Al Jazeera Witnesson October 24 2022!  Baghdad On Fire  participated in Close Up […]

LET’S PLAY SOLDIERS was awarded a 2-weeks post-production residency at Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, USA, after their successful pitch at the Close Up Pitching […]