News about audiovisual in BALKANS region (Albanie, Bosnie-Herzégovine, Croatie, Serbie, Grèce, Macédoine, Roumanie, Slovénie)
Although it arrived in Croatia in 2017, this is the first time the streaming platform Netflix has included 12 contemporary Croatian films in its catalogue, all from the distributor Blitz.The films were released online gradually between August 18th and September 15th. The first film offered by Netflix, The Diary of Paulina P. by Neven Hitrec …
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Director Pavle Vučković began shooting his film Frost on September 7th, wrapping in October. The main location was the Pavlovac Monastery on Mount Kosmaj, near Belgrade, plus some days in Negotin and Lepenski Vir. Also scripted by Vučković, the film is about a detective, Mirjana, sent to eastern Serbia to investigate the disappearance of a …
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Created in 1993, the Astra Film Festival this year celebrates 30 years of showing documentary films from Romania, Eastern Europe and more broadly from around the world. The festivities will take place from October 15thto 22nd in Sibiu. Astra has become one of the main platforms for documentary cinema in Romania and Eastern Europe and …
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Warm Film, a documentary co-directed by Dragan Jovićević (journalist and writer) and Nikola Ljuca (director), about the way gays are represented in Yugoslav and Serbian cinema, is entering post-production. When two up-and-coming actors (played by Đorđe Mišina and Đorđe Galić) are cast as gays in a movie, they make it their mission to explore how …
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Recently awarded the Al Jazeera Balkans Award at the Beldocs Pitching Forum, the docu-drama At the Door of the House Who Will Come Knocking by director Maja Novaković is entering post-production. The film is scheduled for release in the first half of 2024. Written by Ms. Novaković and Jonathan Hourigan, the film is set on …
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The 8th International Documentary Festival of Castellorizo – Beyond Borders (August 20th to 27th) has announced its programme. Organized by the Hellenic History Foundation in collaboration with the association Ecrans des Mondes (France) and the South Aegean Region, this festival encourages film-making about History and Society. In their press release the festival organisers say that …
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During the 3rd Ponta Lopud Film Festival (June 20th– 24th), the organisers launched the Regional Film and TV Academy together with their colleagues at the Sarajevo Film Festival. Their aim is to develop the mentoring, exchange and promotion of film and television projects produced in all the countries of former Yugoslavia. It will organise professional …
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