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TURKEY – GREECE / The winners of the 8th Beyond Borders Festival were screened at the Istanbul Sinematek.

Beyond Borders

Between October 18th and 20th the Istanbul Sinematek organised open-air screenings to show-case the award-winning films of the 8th Beyond Borders Festival During the three days 12 international documentaries were shown, with the event opened by one of them, Penelope McDonald’s feature Audrey Napanangka. David Deri’s A Tale of Four Minorities was also screened. The …

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GREECE / The Agora co-production forum announces 15 chosen projects

La 20e édition du forum de coproduction Agora Crossroads se tiendra à Thessalonique du 3 au 7 novembre dans le cadre du Festival du Film International de Thessalonique (31 octobre au 10 novembre 2024).

AGORA présente 15 projets cinématographiques provenant de 17 pays d'Europe du Sud-Est et de la région méditerranéenne. Ce forum est conçu pour favoriser la mise en réseau, la coproduction et la collaboration créative au sein de l'industrie cinématographique mondiale. AGORA propose également un accompagnement personnalisé pour aider les participants à présenter leurs projets aux acteurs de l’industrie.

De nombreux partenaires de l’événement remettent chaque année des prix aux participants. Le Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée (CNC) remet notamment 8000 € pour le développement de scénarios. Onassis Film Award récompense de 10,000 euros l’un des projets grecs présentés. Dix prix sont ainsi remis chaque année.

Parmi les projets sélectionnés on trouve : THE APPALLING HUMAN VOICE OF THE ANIMALS de Neritan Zinxhiria (Grèce), A WHITE HOUSE de Francesco Romano (Italie, France), BLEACH (Kosovo, Macédoine du Nord, Monténégro), DYING BIRD de Diego Llorente (Espagne) ou encore THE HUNCHBACK de Ahu Ozturk (Turquie).

Sources : Cineuropa, Film Festival

The 20th Agora Crossroads Co-production Forum will be held in Thessaloniki from November 3rd to 7th as part of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival (October 31st to November 10th). AGORA presents 15 film projects from 17 countries in South-Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean region. The forum is designed to foster networking, co-production and creative collaboration …

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MEDITERRANEAN / CIRCLE Women Doc Accelerator announces their chosen projects

CIRCLE Women Doc Accelerator

CIRCLE has announced this year’s 10 selected projects for its Women Doc Accelerator programme. CIRCLE is a unique international training programme for directors, producers and non-binaries working in documentaries and drama. Its Doc Accelerator programme, created in 2018, offers training to 10 women with documentary projects. The programme consists of three modules during which the …

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FRANCE / Cannes Film Festival, the Offical Selection

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The organizers of the 77th Cannes Film Festival have announced this year’s selection. The Festival runs from May 14th to 25th. In the Official Competition 19 feature films are competing for the Palme d’Or, with 12 European directors, including the Italian Paolo Sorrentino with his new film Parthenope and the Greek Yorgos Lanthimos with Kinds …

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CYPRUS / The selection for the Cyprus Film Days

Cyprus Film Days

The 22nd Cyprus Film Days International Festival, the island’s largest film festival, will run from April 12th to 20th. This year’s international competition will have 11 feature films, 5 of which are Cypriot co-productions. Among them Sofia Exarchou’s Animal (Greece) about seasonal workers at an island resort preparing for the tourist season; Emilija Gasic’s 78 …

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GREECE / The Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival announces the winners

Festival International du Documentaire de Thessalonique

The 26th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival (March 7th to 17th), complete with 250 international documentaries, has announced its award winners. There were 12 documentaries in the international section, competing for three awards. The prestigious Golden Alexander went to My Stolen Planet by director Farahnaz Sharifi and the Silver Alexander to Lidia Duda’s Forest. The jury …

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GREECE / The festival Beyond Borders presents its poster

Beyond Borders

The 9th Beyond Borders, the international documentary festival held on the Greek island of Kastellorizo, will run from August 25th to September 1st, and to publicize the event the organisers have revealed the Festival poster. This year’s theme will be the concept “twice a stranger”. As the press release says, this notion reflects “the exchange …

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