Discover the winners of the 28th PriMed!

PriMed has just closed its doors. More than 3,000 young people from both shores of the Mediterranean were able to debate and vote for their favorite film. This year, they shared some very powerful moments with the guest directors. In particular, the 1983 films LES MARCHEURS DE L’ÉGALITÉ by Nina ROBERT and TACK by Vania …

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TURKEY / The 61st ABU AGM was held in Istanbul

Members of the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU), the world’s largest broadcasting union with 230 members in 65 countries, gathered in Istanbul from October 18th to 23rd for the 61st ABU AGM and associated meetings to explore how artificial intelligence is transforming the future of the media. Organised by TRT and themed “The Nexus of AI, …

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BULGARIA / Nikolay Stefanov’s Making Friends with the Idea of a Fatherbegins production

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Bulgarian director Nikolay Stefanov starts production on his documentary Making Friends with the Idea of ​​a Father. In the film Stefanov seeks to reconcile his family with the past by investigating the unsolved murder of his father in 1994, just after the collapse of the Iron Curtain. In an interview with FNE, the director explains …

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EGYPT / The 7th El Gouna Film Festival comes to an end

El Gouna Film Festival

The 7th El Gouna Film Festival was held from October 24th to November 1st. This year the event, which showcases new voices in world cinema, offered 83 films from 48 countries divided into 5 categories – including the Fiction Feature Film Competition and the Documentary Film Competition. On the fiction side, the films included Algiers …

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ARAB WORLD / A partnership between NiS and MAGmedia to improve the distribution of programmes dubbed into Arabic

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New Interactive Studio (NiS), an Egyptian sound post-production company, and Dubai-based distributor MAGmedia International have formed a partnership to increase the distribution of programmes dubbed into Arabic across Europe and the rest of the world. Commenting on the collaboration, Nabeel AlDakkak, CEO of NiS, said: “We are proud to have MAGmedia as a strategic partner. …

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TUNISIA / Afreximbank and Mediwood Studios sign an agreement to expand

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Mediwood, a Tunisian film studio, and Afreximbank, an African export-import bank, have signed a $3 million facility agreement. The agreement will allow Mediwood Studios to develop its facilities and make Tunisia an attractive hub for film production. As Kanayo Awani, Vice-President of Afreximbank, explains: “By improving Tunisia’s film-making infrastructure, we hope to attract international productions, …

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MEDITERRANEAN / CINEMED announces its winners

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To a Land Unknown by Palestinian director Mahdi Fleifel won the Golden Antigone at the 46th Cinemed, the Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival. First shown during the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, the film follows two Palestinian refugees, Chatila and Reda, who are stuck in Athens. Desperately they try to make enough money to buy false passports, …

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