News about audiovisual in BALKANS region (Albanie, Bosnie-Herzégovine, Croatie, Serbie, Grèce, Macédoine, Roumanie, Slovénie)
After two challenging years, the International Documentary Film Festival ZagrebDox will run this year from April 3rd to 10th. Moved several times, for its 18th edition the event returns to Kaptol Boutique Cinema. Organized with the support of the City of Zagreb and the Audiovisual Centre of Croatia, ZagrebDox is a festival of contemporary documentary …
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The City and the City, directed by Christos Passalis and Syllas Tzoumerkas, was shown in the Encounters section of the 72nd Berlin Film Festival. The directors return to the genocide of the Jewish community in Thessalonica, Greece. Nicknamed “the mother of Israel”, for several centuries Thessalonica was the home of a Sephardic Jewish diaspora. Until …
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Bulgarian directors and scriptwriters Lachezar Avramov and Dimitar Stoyanovich have started filming their next documentary, The Deception Queen. National release is scheduled for November 2022. The Deception Queen is a documentary investigation into the financial scandal organized by the OneCoin company and its Bulgarian founder Ruja Ignatova. Ignatova offered investments in a new crypto-currency which, …
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The Croatian film company Zagreb Film, which has been making animated films since 1953, has launched a competition for short films and documentaries about the recent Zagreb earthquake. Candidates must submit a scenario dealing with the direct or indirect consequences of the quake. It should not exceed 30 pages while the final film should not …
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Since September the Croatian public radio and television company HRT has been broadcasting “NDH”, the first documentary series about the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) which was governed by the Ustaše during World War II. A subject which, 45 years after the end of the war, remains extremely sensitive. NDH and the Ustaše Created after the …
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The 62nd Thessaloniki International Film Festival (TIFF) will be held from November 4th to 14th 2021, both face-to-face and online at online.filmfestival.gr. The only international and competitive Greek festival, TIFF selects mainly first and second feature films, focusing on auteur cinema. This year 197 films will be shown in Thessaloniki’s mythical screening venues: the Olympion, …
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“Awake” (Kljun), a police drama from Serbia mixes “thriller and fantasy”. The series centres on a young, ambitious detective, Sonja Kljun, assigned to the town of Subotica to investigate an alleged suicide. Her investigation reveals several disturbing secrets, then takes an even stranger turn when her own daughter has premonitory dreams. Directed by Uros Tomic …
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