libyan cinema

“I lived in Dahra at the time and my friend who knew I loved music said I should go out and see this and that’s when we arrived to the scene” Alaa a young boy who loves to listen to blues recalls the day when he witnessed burning of western instruments in the main square of Tripoli Libya, after a campaign led by the regime against “Cultural invasion” that …

According to Mohamed Ferjani’s book The story of Libyan cinema, first official department for cinema in Libya was established in the early seventies of the last century as The department of cinematic production, the department was provided with full equipment of film editing and film developing labs and soon few attempts of short films followed. In 1973 a public company was established under the name The general institute for cinema, the institution …

one of our most recent projects is launching of the Khayal Productions Facebook Page

Khayal Productions has been around for more than five years, working on multiple projects from different preferences and strengthening the company’s position in the local industry. Over the past few years, our team noticed a lack of basic tools that filmmakers anywhere else would typically have access to, not a surprise considering the past forty years of Libya’s history. We sought to build a community for filmmakers and started …