Category: BALKANS

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

ROMANIA / Record selection for the TIFF

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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BULGARIA / Report on the Sofia International Film Festival (SIFF)

This year, the Sofia International Film Festival (SIFF) is taking place in two parts, one in the summer, the other in the autumn. The summer section ran from June 25th to July 19th with 111 films from 48 countries being shown to the public in 2 formats: physical screenings in Sofia at Cinema House and …

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GREECE / Global Film Studio filming in Greece

Global Film Studio has decided its feature-length documentary on the films of Italian director Bruno Pischiutta will be made in Greece. The company has announced that as soon as restrictions on international travel are eased, production of Retrospective should begin there. Retrospective traces the career of Bruno Pischiutta. Actor, director, producer, he has won many …

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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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