Category: CINEMA

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FRANCE / Coming in 2022: film training in Martigues

1000 visages

The organisation 1000 visages is offering young people aged 16 to 30 a chance to access various film professions free and without conditions, whatever their economic, geographic or social situation. There are three teaching strands: acting, writing and directing. Created in 2006 by Houda Benyamina, director of the film “Divines”, 1000 visages is currently based …

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ITALY / The 62nd Festival dei Popoli offers a retrospective on the work of French film-makers Nicolas Klotz and Elisabeth Perceval

Festival dei Popoli

Europe’s oldest documentary event, the Festival dei Popoli, will run in Florence from November 20th to 28th. This year, in addition to the two competitions – international (18 documentaries not yet shown in Italy) and Italian (7 premiers) – the festival is hosting the first Italian retrospective of the films of French directors Nicolas Klotz …

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FRANCE / For its 10th year the Noisy-le-Sec Festival of Franco-Arab Film puts Palestine in the seat of honour

FFA 2021

Having been cancelled in 2021 because of the health crisis, the Franco-Arab Film Festival (FFFA) of Noisy-le-Sec ran from November 12th to 23rd. Since 2011 this annual event has supported “recent films by film-makers from Arab countries and French directors whose backgrounds and concerns are linked to those countries.” A total of 29 feature films, …

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ALGERIA / A National Centre for the Film Industry soon in Algiers

Youcef Sehairi

On October 24th a presidential decree formalized the creation of the Centre National de l’Industrie Cinématographique Algérien (National Centre for the Film Industry) in the capital. Back in 2020 the Algerian Secretary of State to the Minister of Culture and Arts, Bechri Youcef Sehairi, said that “evolving from diverse cinematographic activity to a real industry …

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CROATIA / “NDH”, HRT’s first documentary series about the Ustaše government

HRT

Since September the Croatian public radio and television company HRT has been broadcasting “NDH”, the first documentary series about the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) which was governed by the Ustaše during World War II. A subject which, 45 years after the end of the war, remains extremely sensitive. NDH and the Ustaše Created after the …

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JORDAN / “Tala’ Vision”, first Arab and Jordanian film to win a gold medal at the 48th Student Academy Awards

Tala Vision

“Tala ‘Vision” is the first Jordanian or Arab film to win the gold medal for Best Narrative Film (International) at the 48th Student Academy Awards in California, also called the “Student Oscars”. This victory allows directors to compete for their work in the short films category at the 2022 Oscars. The Jordanian-German short is about …

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TUNISIA / “Papillon d’Or” chosen by the CNCI to represent Tunisia at the 94th Oscars

Papillon d'Or

Abdelhamid Bouchnak’s “Papillon d’Or” (Golden Butterfly) has been chosen to represent Tunisia at the 2022 Oscars, competing for the Best International Feature Film Award. The film was selected on October 12th at a committee-meeting chaired by Slim Dargachi, director general of the CNCI (Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image). “A sort of psychic reading or even …

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