Category: CINEMA

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BULGARIA / Filming completed for “Flesh”

PREMIERstudio

Produced by PREMIERstudio and supported by the Bulgarian National Film Centre, director Dimitar Stoyanovich has completed shooting his first drama feature, Flesh. The script, also by Stoyanovich, centres on Nadezhda (played by Plamena Getova) who, while translating Nobel Prize winner Yukio Kobayashi’s novel Flesh, discovers she has a brain tumour. Constructed around three parallel stories, …

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MALTA / Launch of Creative Malta, a funding programme

Creative Malta

The Malta Film Commission has announced the launch of Creative Malta, a financing programme aimed at local producers. During the first phase €600,000 will be made available for selected projects. There will be a call for projects which, to simplify the application procedure, will require less documentation at the first stage. The Minister of Tourism, …

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FRANCE / Financial plan to make Marseille the Mediterranean capital of film

Vieux-port de Marseille

The French Minister of Culture, Rima Abdul-Malak, together with the Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur Region, the City of Marseille and the Aix-Marseille-Provence Metropolis have signed a memorandum of understanding on cinema and the film industry. This agreement is part of Marseille en grand, a three-year plan announced by President Macron in September 2021: “We are going to create …

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CROATIA / Four Croatian films at the Rotterdam International Film Festival

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The International Film Festival of Rotterdam (IFFR), from January 25th to February 5th, is premiering 4 Croatian productions. Two experimental films, Igor Grubić’s Ingresso Animali Vivi and Boris Poljak’s Horror Vacui, are in the Short and Mid-length category. Igor Grubić’s film looks at the towns of northeastern Italy, where animals from Eastern Europe are brought …

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MIDDLE-EAST / International success for “The Neighbourhood Storyteller”

The Neighbourhood Storyteller

The feature-length documentary The Neighbourhood Storyteller, produced by an NGO called the Big Heart Foundation, has been selected for more than 25 international festivals and won several awards. Among others it was selected by DOQUMENTA in Mexico, the Middlebury New Film-makers Festival in America and the UK’s Close:Up Edinburgh Docufest. Its awards include the Women-in-Film …

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TUNISIA / Fears that the Moknine cinema will be demolished

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CinéMakna, one of only three cinemas in Moknine, a town in the province of Monastir, seems scheduled for demolition. Having shown films for 50 years, although not continuously, it may now be replaced by a shopping centre. To alert the public, “The Moknine Cinema Association” has issued a press release. Younes Ben Hajria, a film …

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SPAIN / Developing the Spanish audiovisual sector

Ministère de la Culture

At the end of December the Spanish government presented a bill aimed at consolidating the country’s audiovisual sector. Its key clauses focus on giving priority to independent productions when allocating subsidies. The Ministry of Culture’s press release says the government also intends to pay “particular attention to true equality between men and women by using …

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