News about audiovisual in BALKANS region (Albanie, Bosnie-Herzégovine, Croatie, Serbie, Grèce, Macédoine, Roumanie, Slovénie)
Now in its 13th year, Animasyros is Greece’s largest and best-known international animation festival. This year’s event went Phygital – part of the programme was presented physically, on the island of Syros, but most of the films were also shown digitally on a platform dedicated to the event. This meant that from September 23rd to …
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The third AJB DOC closed on September 15th. Specifically for television documentaries, this Sarajevo-based festival is organized by Al Jazeera Balkans. Many documentaries were screened online, among them Molly Stuart’s Objector, selected for the 2020 PriMed in the Mediterranean Issues category. This feature-length film won the main AJB DOC award. Special mention was given to …
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The European Festival of Greek Documentaries – GrecDoc – will take place in Paris (health conditions permitting) from September 18th to 20th. This year’s festival is sponsored by Rosviros Manthoulis. Michel Noll, the event’s founder and director, presents this second season: “This year, because of Covid 19, it is in the autumn and not the …
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August 29th to September 4th was the week of the 67th Pula Film Festival. 16 films were in competition for the Golden Arenas. Among them Danilo Šerbedžija’s Tereza37. Trailer The script, written by Croatian actress Lana Barić, is about a woman married to a sailor for 10 years. After her fourth miscarriage, and under pressure …
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The Last Prisoner is the latest film by Bujar Alimani. Released in France on July 22nd, this feature film shows the desperate manoeuvring by the Communist Albanian government to remain in place during the 1990’s. When Envers Hoxhua’s dictatorship ended, his successors managed to maintain their hold on power – keeping the country isolated from …
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The international company SPI and the Bulgarian telecom operator Net1 have signed a distribution agreement making ten channels from SPI’s portfolio available to Net1 subscribers. SPI’s cinema channels include FilmBox, FilmBox Plus, FilmBox Extra and FilmBox Arthouse. The premium channel FilmBox Extra offers a selection of blockbuster hits and award-winning films. FilmBox and FilmBox Plus …
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The Transylvanian International Film Festival (TIFF) was held from July 31st to August 9th. This year’s festival was marked by a record number of films: 21 features, including seven world premieres, and 16 short films were on the programme. The world premieres include Tudor Cristian Jurgio’s And They May Still Be Alive Today (Romania / …
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