Category: BALKANS

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

SLOVENIA / The Slovenian Film Centre increases film funding

Centre Slovène du Film

In a recent press announcement, the Slovenian Film Centre announced an increase in financial support. This year the state has allocated a budget of 12.35 million euros, compared to 8.58 million in 2024, representing a significant 44% increase. Usually five or six Slovenian features are made every year, but this year there will be ten, …

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GREECE / TIDF announces the projects chosen for the Pitching Forum

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Agora, the industry section of the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival (TIDF), has named the 14 projects which will take part in the Pitching Forum, to be held from March 7th to 15th. Created in 1999, Agora is a major event for producing and financing international documentary projects from Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East. …

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CROATIA / “The Man Who Could not Remain Silent” nominated for the Oscars and the Césars

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The Académie des Césars and the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts have both nominated Nebojša Slijepčević’s The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent (Croatia) in their respective Live Action Short Film categories. Awarded the Palme d’Or at Cannes, the film is set in 1993 in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Paramilitaries stop a passenger train as part of …

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BALKANS / Balkan Documentary Centre training programme

The Balkan Documentary Centre has extended its call for applications for a training programme, BDC Discoveries. You have until March 10th to submit your projects. BDC Discoveries is a training initiative for professionals who are either from the Balkans or working on a Balkan-related topic and looking for a regional co-producer. Supported by Creative Europe …

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BULGARIA / Winners of the 28th Golden Rhyton Film Festival

The 2024 Golden Rhyton Film Festival was held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria from December 13th to 19th. Specialising in Bulgarian documentary and animation, this 28th edition screened 53 films in competition and 19 in the Open Horizons selection. The jury – writer Radoslav Bimbalov, animation director/producer Dimitar Petrov, cinematographer and documentary film-maker Nikolay Stefanov, art history …

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BULGARIA / Iglika Triffonova’s “Kalunyo” starts production

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Bulgarian director Iglika Triffonova has started production of her feature film Kalunyo. The first phase of filming was in November 2024, the second phase will continue between May and June 2025. Adapted from a best-selling Bulgarian novel by G. Bozhinov, the film revisits the book’s ethical and philosophical themes through a story set during the …

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FRANCE / Fipadoc celebrates documentary creativity in the Balkans

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This year’s Fipadoc, which runs from January 24th to February 1st, will devote its Territorial Focus to the Balkans, with 22 documentaries. Among the first titles announced, Maja Novaković’s At the Door of the House Who Will Come Knocking? (Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina) takes us to the heart of Bosnia where an elderly and solitary man, Emin, …

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