News about audiovisual in BALKANS region (Albanie, Bosnie-Herzégovine, Croatie, Serbie, Grèce, Macédoine, Roumanie, Slovénie)
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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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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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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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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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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As in many countries, Romanian film and television companies face considerable losses caused by the Coronavirus crisis. To remedy this, representatives of 230 film production and service companies have sent a letter to the national authorities, including the country’s President, Klaus Lohannis, the Prime Minister, the Minister of Culture, the Minister of Economy and the …
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Anca Damian, Romanian film-maker, is currently working on her fourth feature, The Island. Scripted with Augusto Zanovello, the film is co-produced by Aparte Film (Romania), Take Five (Belgium) and Komadoli (France). The director describes her work as a musical and a “back-to-front version of the Robinson Crusoe story”. Several characters are the same as in …
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