Al-Jazeera Balkans Documentary Film Festival has announced the winners of its 7th edition. Organised by Al-Jazeera Balkans, in collaboration with Al-Jazeera Media Network and Al-Jazeera Media Institute, the festival ran from September 13th to 17th in Sarajevo. Its aim: to promote film-makers and documentaries addressing social issues, focusing on the universal human values of courage, …
Category: BALKANS
News about audiovisual in BALKANS region (Albanie, Bosnie-Herzégovine, Croatie, Serbie, Grèce, Macédoine, Roumanie, Slovénie)
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GREECE / The Agora co-production forum announces 15 chosen projects
The 20th Agora Crossroads Co-production Forum will be held in Thessaloniki from November 3rd to 7th as part of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival (October 31st to November 10th). AGORA presents 15 film projects from 17 countries in South-Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean region. The forum is designed to foster networking, co-production and creative collaboration …
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MEDITERRANEAN / CIRCLE Women Doc Accelerator announces their chosen projects
CIRCLE has announced this year’s 10 selected projects for its Women Doc Accelerator programme. CIRCLE is a unique international training programme for directors, producers and non-binaries working in documentaries and drama. Its Doc Accelerator programme, created in 2018, offers training to 10 women with documentary projects. The programme consists of three modules during which the …
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CROATIA – EGYPT / The Egyptian film “Voy! Voy! Voy!” major winner at the Split Mediterranean Film Festival
As part of the 17th Split Mediterranean Film Festival (June 13th – 22nd), the Egyptian Voy! Voy!Voy! won the Best Feature Film Award and the Jury Award. Directed and written by Omar Hilal, the film is about a security guard desperate to leave Egypt. Discovering blind football, he fakes blindness so he can get on …
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ROMANIA / Romania Refund programme: the project call will soon be open
To attract international productions, Romania offers selected projects a 30% refund of expenses spent on its territory. The call for applications for the 2024-2026 programme will open on July 25th. To be eligible, a production must comply with the rules laid down by the Office for Cinematographic and Cultural Investments (OFIC). A feature film of …
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SERBIA / A Serbian film, “Guardians of the Formula”, in French cinemas
Dragan Bjelogrlić’s feature film Guardians of the Formula was released in French cinemas on June 5th. Based on Goran Milašinović’s bestselling novel The Case of Vinča, and set in October 1958 during the Cold War, the film is about Yugoslav scientists who were severely irradiated during a secret mission. They were thought to have been …
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CROATIA / Two Croatian shorts in competition at Annecy
Two Croatian short films, Moral Support and Windows from the South, were chosen to be shown at the recent Annecy International Animated Film Festival. Moral Support, directed by Vuk Jevremovic, had its world premiere in the Short Film competition. Inspired by the music of the Slovenian group Laibach and their song Moral Support, the film …
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