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The director Milko Lazarov is working on his third feature, The Herd, backed by Red Carpet, a Bulgarian production company, with 42film and Amour Fou Luxembourg as co-producers. Lazarov’s screenplay, co-written with Ekaterina Churilova and Simeon Ventsislavov, is about a family – Ali, his daughter Tariqa and her grandmother Chrysula – sharinga hut on the …
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The European Film Academy has awarded the prestigious European Achievement Award for World Cinema to film-maker Elia Suleiman for “his impressive dedication to cinema.” For 35 years the Academy has been organizing the European Film Awards to celebrate European film-making and Suleiman is the first Palestinian director to win the award. Born in 1960 in …
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On August 17th, during the Sarajevo Film Festival, the heads of five national film centres – Slovenian, Croatian, Serbian, North Macedonian and Montenegran – signed a three-year cooperation agreement. The agreement concerns a project called ReActing as a Star. Created in June during the second KRAFFT film festival in Slovenia (a festival focused on acting), …
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Previewed at the Toronto International Film Festival, the first part of Mila Turajlić’s new documentary, Ciné-guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudović Reels, introduces the viewer to the work of Serbian cameraman Stevan Labudović (1926-2017). Labudović worked for many years at the Yugoslav state agency Filmske Novostiun. He is particularly known for his coverageof the war in …
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The Centre Cinématographique Marocain (CCM) has published its 2021 cinema report. Looking at the statistics it is clear there has been a significant drop in the number of cinema admissions across the country. Between 2017 and 2019 admissions increased, with 1,883,425 in 2019, the year before cinemas had to close because of the Covid pandemic. …
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At this time every year many countries are choosing a film to submit to the Best Foreign Film category of the Oscars. Only films produced outside the United States are eligible and their primary language must not be English. The rules of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts also state that each country can submit …
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Romanian director Marian Crişan is currently filming Warboy. With an estimated budget of €700,000, the film is co-produced by two Romanian companies, Rova Film and Chainsaw Europe, and the Moldovan Parmis Film. Written by Marian Crişan, the film takes place towards the end of World War II. Nicu, a teenager, is very attached to his …
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