PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES / The BBC announces the feature-length documentary “Life and Death in Gaza”

BBC

The BBC has announced that the film Life and Death in Gaza will air on BBC Two on October 15th and then be available outside the UK on the BBC World Service YouTube page. From terrifying bombing raids to countless evacuations, the intensity of family separations and reunions to the deaths and even the birth …

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EGYPT / The documentary “Memoirs of M.A Draz” shown during Goethe Film Week

Memoirs of M.A Draz

Goethe Film Week, organized by the Goethe Institutes in Alexandria and Cairo, screened an Egyptian documentary Memoirs of M.A Draz by Maggie Morgan. Considered by Egyptian critic Mahmoud Abd El Shakour “one of the best films of the year,” the documentary is about an Azharite scholar, Mohamed Abdallah Draz, seen through letters, diaries, and photographs …

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BALKANS / Winners of the 7th AJB DOC Film Festival

AJB DOC

Al-Jazeera Balkans Documentary Film Festival has announced the winners of its 7th edition. Organised by Al-Jazeera Balkans, in collaboration with Al-Jazeera Media Network and Al-Jazeera Media Institute, the festival ran from September 13th to 17th in Sarajevo. Its aim: to promote film-makers and documentaries addressing social issues, focusing on the universal human values ​​of courage, …

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ALGERIA / “196 mètres/Algiers” submitted for the Oscar nominations

196 mètres Algiers

The Commission algérienne has submitted Chakib Taleb-Bendiab’s Algiers for the 2025 Oscar nominations. Co-produced by Algeria and Canada, Taleb-Bendiab’s film is about an investigation led by a psychologist, Dounia, and a police Inspector trying to find a little girl kidnapped during the Algerian civil war. The film is Chakib Taleb-Bendiab’s first feature. Before that he …

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ITALY / The Middle East Now Festival prepares for its 15th edition

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The festival for Middle Eastern documentaries, Middle East Now, is preparing its 15th edition which will be held in Florence from October 15th to 20th. This year’s theme: Ecologies of Resistance. For the festival organisers this theme covers both the climate crisis and war, two tragedies they consider “deeply intertwined”. Using the earthquakes which hit …

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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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MOROCCO / “Triple A” in Moroccan cinemas since September 11th

Triple A

Premiered on September 10th at Casablanca’s Megarama cinema, Jihane Bahar’s feature Triple A is now on release across Morocco. Written by Ms. Bahar and Nadia Kamali Marwazi, it tells three love stories of marginalized protagonists whose destinies cross in an unexpected way. Between drama and black comedy, the film addresses many subjects such as delinquency, …

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