News about audiovisual in BALKANS region (Albanie, Bosnie-Herzégovine, Croatie, Serbie, Grèce, Macédoine, Roumanie, Slovénie)
The 38th competition for the Golden Rose was held from September 24th to October 1st in Varna, Bulgaria. Of the 19 films in competition, Ivaylo Hristov’s Fear was awarded Best Film “for its ability to tell a story about daunting issues with a certain irony.” This is the second time the director has won the …
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On September 21st Chris Marcich, CEO of the Croatian Audiovisual Centre was elected to the board of the European Film Agency Directors association (EFAD). EFAD members are government or government-associated public bodies in charge of national funding for the audiovisual sector. Each year they fund various projects totalling around three billion euros through subsidies and …
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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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