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ROMANIA / « Between Revolutions » selected for the 73th Berlin Film Festival

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Vlad Petri’s feature-length documentary Between Revolutions will premiere at the 73rd Berlin Film Festival (February 16th-26th) in the Forum category. Produced by Monica Lăzurean-Gorgan of Activ Docs and co-produced by Oliver Sertic for the Croatian company Restart, Between Revolutions is about two students at Bucharest University in the 1970’s, Zahra and Maria. Zahra, an Iranian, …

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FRANCE / Registration open for the GREC residential workshop

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The GREC’s residential workshop, “Short Film Script”, will take place from April 4th to 18th in Port-de-Bouc, near Marseille. It is organized in partnership with regional administrators, Port-de-Bouc’s town hall and the local cinema, Le Méliès. There will be one-on-one meetings with scriptwriters and also collective work sessions to discuss participants’ scripts, visualise them with …

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SLOVAKIA / Viera Čakányová presents “Notes from Eremocene”

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Slovak director Viera Čakányová will premiere her new experimental documentary, Notes from Eremocene at the 73rd Berlinale. Entered in the Forum section, which looks at and reflects on the medium of film, Notes from Eremocene takes its title from a concept introduced by biologist Edward O. Wilson in which he calls the next geological era …

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BULGARIA / Filming completed for “Flesh”

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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

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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

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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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