News about audiovisual in BALKANS region (Albanie, Bosnie-Herzégovine, Croatie, Serbie, Grèce, Macédoine, Roumanie, Slovénie)
Vlad Petri’s feature-length documentary Between Revolutions will premiere at the 73rd Berlin Film Festival (February 16th-26th) in the Forum category. Produced by Monica Lăzurean-Gorgan of Activ Docs and co-produced by Oliver Sertic for the Croatian company Restart, Between Revolutions is about two students at Bucharest University in the 1970’s, Zahra and Maria. Zahra, an Iranian, …
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Produced by PREMIERstudio and supported by the Bulgarian National Film Centre, director Dimitar Stoyanovich has completed shooting his first drama feature, Flesh. The script, also by Stoyanovich, centres on Nadezhda (played by Plamena Getova) who, while translating Nobel Prize winner Yukio Kobayashi’s novel Flesh, discovers she has a brain tumour. Constructed around three parallel stories, …
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The International Film Festival of Rotterdam (IFFR), from January 25th to February 5th, is premiering 4 Croatian productions. Two experimental films, Igor Grubić’s Ingresso Animali Vivi and Boris Poljak’s Horror Vacui, are in the Short and Mid-length category. Igor Grubić’s film looks at the towns of northeastern Italy, where animals from Eastern Europe are brought …
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During its third project evaluation session, the Eurimages committee decided to support 24 feature-length films, including 4 documentaries and 3 animated films, for a total of €6,707,000. Among those chosen, director Ivan Salatić received €170,000 to develop his second feature, Melting of the Ruler. Combining several stories, Salatić’sfilm is set in 19thcentury Montenegro, at the …
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The call for projects for the next ZagrebDox Pro programme is open until January 31st. Entitled Dox of War, this year’s focus will be on documentaries dealing with war. Through a one-year online mentorship and a five-day workshop (March 27th-31st), ZagrebDox Pro offers film-makers with a documentary project the chance to develop their work with …
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The 22nd Brussels festival for Mediterranean films, Cinemamed, will be held from December 2nd to 10th. On the opening evening there will be a screening of Maryam Touzani’s Le Bleu du Caftan. Created in 1989, this festival highlights films rarely seen in Belgium, providing “a space for dialogue and exchange between North and South, between …
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After last year’s pilot attracted more than 10,000 visitors, the second Series Rough Pitch – The Balkan Way was live-streamed on November 7th. During that day film-makers presented a jury with their projects for television series. Martina Petrovic, director of the Croatian MEDIA office which organised this competition, explained she wants to “safeguard, develop and …
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