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At its 140th meeting, last October in Tbilisi, the Executive Committee of the Council of Europe’s Eurimages Fund voted to support 14 feature film co-production projects, 2 animation films and 1 documentary for a total amount of €5,116,469. Among the supported feature films projects there is “Dita ze fill” (Daybreak) by Albanian director Gentian Koci …
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On Saturday, October 31st the 37th Cinemed ended with an Award ceremony in Montpellier. The Golden Antigone this year went to João Salaviza for “Montanha” a film about a teenager becoming the man of the house while his grandfather is dying. Another Portuguese director, João Pedro Placido, won the Ulysses Award in the documentary section …
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2015 sees the return of the biennial festival “The Middle East: What the Cinema Can Do” from November 20th to 29th in Paris, at the Les 3 Luxembourg cinema. This year 40 films will be screened, many for the first time in France. The festival will open with Amir Shomali’s animated documentary “The Wanted 18”, …
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In early 2016 “Bonne mère”, the first film by actress Hafsia Herzi, will begin shooting in Marseille’s northern districts. Set in a housing estate, the film follows “Nora, a woman in her sixties with inexhaustible energy, watching over her family, her children and their friends.” “Bonne mère” is produced by Abdellatif Kechiche (Quat’sous Films). He …
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On October 14th the Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel (the French broadcasting watchdog) announced its verdict on the proposed sale of Numéro 23 to the NextRadioTV group, owner of BFM TV, RMC and RMC Découverte, for €88.3 million. In a statement the French broadcasting regulating authority announced it is withdrawing its authorization for the channel to …
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The 14th CineHorizontes, a festival of Spanish Film in Marseille, will be held from November 6th to 15th at the Cinéma Le Prado and in partner cinemas across the city and the PACA region. The programme includes the screening of some fifty films, mostly around themes of elsewhere, a window on the south and a …
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The CMCA, in collaboration with the Swiss Consulate in Marseille, the Alcazar Library, Akka Films, France Télévisions, RTS (Radio Télévision Suisse) and Mission Film Distributors is organizing the first screening in France of Nicolas Wadimoff‘s 2014 Swiss documentary “Spartans” (winner of several awards in North America and Europe). The screening will take place on Friday, …
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