Category: BALKANS

News about audiovisual in BALKANS region (Albanie, Bosnie-Herzégovine, Croatie, Serbie, Grèce, Macédoine, Roumanie, Slovénie)

MACEDONIA SLOVAKIA / Piargy in post-production

Piargy by Macedonian director Ivo Trajkov is currently in post-production. This black and white feature film is based on a short story by Slovak writer František Švantner, published in 1942. A mystical thriller about the supposed revival of the Antichrist. The film’s starting point is a young woman, Juliša, living in the village of Piargy. …

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MONTENEGRO / CIRCLE Women Doc Accelerator at Cannes

CIRCLE Women Doc Accelerator is a training programme for women directors and producers from South East Europe. The organization was given considerable visibility during the recent Docs-in-Progress at Cannes Docs, when four projects by former CIRCLE trainees were selected for the Cannes Film Market Online. CIRCLE Women is organized by two Serbian companies, Wake Up …

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KOSOVO / Anibar, Dokufest and Prifest all maintained

Despite this year’s health crisis, the organisers of Kosovo’s major festivals, Anibar, Dokufest and Prifest, have announced all three will be maintained. Anibar is Kosovo’s only animation festival. Since its creation it has been held in Peja. This year’s festival, the 11th, will run from August 17th to 23rd. Around 300 films will be shown …

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ROMANIA / Post-production completed for Lebensdorf

Romanian director Valentin Hotea is currently finalizing his second feature, Lebensdorf, about a fictional writer, Ducu Dobrescu, faced with mid-life crisis. As he leaves Bucharest to take part in a creative residency in Berlin, Dobrescu thinks about his future, unable to make up his mind between two countries and two women. The director describes his …

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GREECE / Plastic Free Archipelago the first documentary about disposable plastic

On June 5th, World Environment Day, Plastic Free Archipelago was broadcast in prime time on ERT2. It is the first Greek documentary to tackle the subject of disposable plastics and the pollution they cause in the seas around Greece. From the Cyclades Islands to the Gulf of Aegina, via Patras and Athens, the film-maker follows …

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ROMANIA / Candidate call for the Pustnik Screen-writers’ Residency

For the sixth consecutive year, the Pustnik Screen-writers’ Residency is launching a call for applications. This year the dates are from September 7th to 15th and the theme is “The seen and the unseen”. Pustnik is for film-makers developing their first or second feature and is the only residency of its kind in Romania. Of …

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CROATIA / Postponement of the Dubrovnik market

NEM Dubrovnik is the most important Croatian trade event specializing in the television industry. Although planned as usual for June in Dubrovnik, it will not be held this year because of the uncertain situation brought about by COVID-19. The event has therefore had to be postponed. It will now be held from December 9th to …

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