News about audiovisual in BALKANS region (Albanie, Bosnie-Herzégovine, Croatie, Serbie, Grèce, Macédoine, Roumanie, Slovénie)
“Toma” presents us with the life of the hugely popular Yugoslav singer and songwriter Tomislav (Toma) Zdravkovic (played by Milan Marić). In its first week in Bosnia and Herzegovina the film broke box-office records, selling 40,877 tickets, while in its first 5 weeks in Serbia and Montenegro it sold 555,546 and 145,659 in Bosnia. The …
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The Al Jazeera Documentary Channel and Al Jazeera Balkans have signed an agreement to “establish cooperation and provide support through financing, distribution and co-production for documentary and other film-makers from South East Europe, Southern Caucasus, Middle East and North Africa.” From 2022 the Al Jazeera Documentary Channel, Al Jazeera Balkans and the AJB DOC Film …
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The documentary “Cinema under Siege” won the Best Project Award in the Talent Hub Central & Eastern Europe section at the 2021 Sunny Side of the Doc co-production market. The film by Srđan Šarenac is about a group of artists in 1993 determined to organize the first Sarajevo Film Festival despite the siege of Sarajevo. …
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“Unfortunately it was paradise” returns to Athens with a rich programme of Greek, Middle Eastern and North African films. The not-for-profit organization Locus Athens and the AIN Association have jointly organized open air and indoor screenings and conferences in Athens’ Tavros district. Launched in September 2020, the project was supposed to be a monthly programme …
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Netflix Turkey recently announced that a documentary about a legendary figure in Turkish football, Fatih Terim, will soon be available on its platform. Terim, manager of Galatasaray, said on his Twitter account: “Prepare the cameras, the lights, we are starting Netflix Turkey”. Fatih Terim is the most successful manager in the history of the Turkish Süper …
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Published by Buka, a Bosnian online magazine, “Hejt Sloveni” is a video made as part of an awareness campaign inviting reflection about the hate speech current in ex-Yugoslavia’s social media. The pun is subtle: Hejt (hatred) is similar to Hej, as in “Hej Sloveni” (Hey Slavs) – the title of the Bosnian national anthem. The video shows a Bosnian …
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A new five-part drama series, broadcast by the Serbian national television RTS, has split the country. Based on archive images and documents, “Porodica” (The Family) shows the controversial arrest of Slobodan Milošević, former president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and his extradition to the International Court of Justice at The Hague exactly twenty years …
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