Category: CINEMA

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Morocco / Launch of a project for 150 new cinemas

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On June 10th the Moroccan Minister of Youth, Culture and Communication, Mehdi Bensaïd, went to Salé to inaugurate a cinema in the Mohamed Hajji cultural complex. It is the first of the 150 multi-purpose auditoriums (cinema, theatre and shows) the Kingdom wants to open in the country. For Mehdi Bensaïd, “this cinema project is important …

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Italy / New hope for showing films in cinemas

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With the arrival of streaming platforms like Netflix, Amazon Prime and Disney +, cinemas in Italy and many other countries face stiff competition. The growing number of alternatives gives audiences greater choice. In France for example a mechanism has been created to protect the theatrical exploitation of films. It gives cinemas priority for the films …

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Montenegro / Filming completed for “Once Upon a Family”

Once Upon a Family

Montenegrin scriptwriter and director, Sead Šabotić, has finished filming his feature-length documentary Once Upon a Family.  Produced by Code Blue Productions, the project received €30,000 from the Montenegro Film Centre in 2019, and the same year was presented at the Beldocs Academy (Serbia). Development continued in Prague at Ex Oriente Film 2020. Once Upon a …

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Bosnia-Herzegovina / CineLink Industry Days announces its selection

CineLink Industry Days

CineLink Industry Days is an event for professional film-makers from south-eastern Europe with productions in development. Meetings are arranged with directors, producers, funders and distributors. Selected films are divided into two categories: the CineLink Co-Production Market, presenting 9 feature films, and CineLink Drama, with 6 series. The event takes place over several phases. From June …

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Greece / Five awards for Magnetic Fields at the Hellenic Iris Awards

Hellenic Film Academy

Organized by the Hellenic Film Academy (HFA), the 13th Iris Awards celebrated the year’s best Greek films in an event involving much of the Greek film industry. This year a first film by Giorgos Goussis, Magnetic Fields, won five awards, including Best Feature. Magnetic Fields is a road movie set on the island of Kefalonia. …

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Morocco / Award-winners at the Tetouan Mediterranean Film Festival

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The Tetouan Mediterranean Film Festival took place from June 10th to 17th. The key to this 27th year was the importance of being back in cinemas: “Coming back into cinemas like this gives us overwhelming joy and satisfaction, not only watching the films, but also, and most importantly, sharing intense emotions.” The closing ceremony was …

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PriMed 2022 / Discover the official selection the 26th edition

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The list of films selected for the 26th PriMed – the Festival of the Mediterranean in images – is now available. No less than 22 films, located in nearly 13 countries of the Mediterranean basin, have been chosen in the different categories. This year Annick Cojean (author and senior journalist on Le Monde) will do …

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