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GREECE / The 23rd Thessaloniki Documentary Festival launches a competition for podcasts

Compétition Podcasts TFF

The 23rd Thessaloniki Documentary Festival is calling for applications for its new podcast competition. Following the success of its workshops and the enthusiastic response from the public, the festival’s special podcast competition is now officially open. Fiction podcasts, documentary podcasts, and either fiction or documentary podcasts which incorporate interviews are all eligible; those in Greek will …

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FRANCE / Free increases its offer of Arabic channels for Ramadan

Free Packs Ramadan

As well as the 28 channels in Arabic already available, Free is offering access to 15 new channels in Arabic for Ramadan 2021. The complete list of new channels offered: Asharq News  580 Gulli Bil Arabi 682 Watania Djazareia 683 Watania 2 674 Hannibal 686 MBC 5 687 MBC+ Drama 688 ART Al Hekayat 1 689 ART Aflam 1  …

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ITALY / Candidate call for the Gianandrea Mutti Award for immigrant film-makers or Italian directors born abroad

Premio Mutti

The Gianandrea Mutti Award, the national competition for migrant or foreign-born directors, is calling for applications for its 13th edition. Created in 2008, the award was the result of a collaboration between the Associazione Amici di Giana, the Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna, the Archivio Memorie Migranti (AMM) and the Fondazione Pianoterra Onlus. The Gianandrea Mutti Award, the national competition for migrant …

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CYPRUS / The Cyprus Film Days returns to Cypriot cinemas

Cyprus Film Days

From April 16th to 24th Cyprus Film Days is once again having cinema screenings with a live audience. Co-organized by Cyprus’ Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports and Youth, the European Commission and the European Parliament’s Cyprus Office, the “largest international film event on the island of Cyprus” traditionally takes place at the Rialto Theatre in Limassol and …

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SPAIN / €12 million for the ICAA’s 2021 grants

ICAA

The Spanish Instituto de la Cinematografia y de las Artes Audiovisuales (ICAA) has published in the country’s Official Gazette its proposal for supporting feature-length film projects. €12 million will be shared among independent production companies working on a screenplay for a film of “particular cinematographic, cultural or social value”, or on a documentary in development, a first …

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FRANCE ITALY / “Pasolini, Pasoliniennes, Pasoliniens!”, a retrospective of the Italian film-maker Pier Paolo Pasolini

Exposition sur Passolini Bpi

The Documentary Cinematheque of the Bpi (Bibliothèque publique d’information) at the Centre Pompidou in Paris is celebrating the work of Italian film-maker Pier Paolo Pasolini. From April 1st to June 21st a season of documentaries will make 20 of his films available online, together with a selection of Italian films from the 1980’s to the present “all containing echoes, …

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CROATIA FRANCE / “All These Sensations in My Belly”, a Croatian short about a transgender person at the Annecy Short Film Festival

All those sensations in my belly

The Annecy International Animation Film Festival’s Short Film Competition will feature “All These Sensations in My Belly” by Marko Dješka. Released in 2020, this 13-minute short follows Matia’s transition from male to female and her struggles to establish an intimate relationship with a heterosexual man. A graduate of Zagreb’s Academy of Fine Arts, director Marko …

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