Category: BALKANS

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

BALKANS / Winners of the 7th AJB DOC Film Festival

AJB DOC

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, …

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GREECE / The Agora co-production forum announces 15 chosen projects

La 20e édition du forum de coproduction Agora Crossroads se tiendra à Thessalonique du 3 au 7 novembre dans le cadre du Festival du Film International de Thessalonique (31 octobre au 10 novembre 2024).

AGORA présente 15 projets cinématographiques provenant de 17 pays d'Europe du Sud-Est et de la région méditerranéenne. Ce forum est conçu pour favoriser la mise en réseau, la coproduction et la collaboration créative au sein de l'industrie cinématographique mondiale. AGORA propose également un accompagnement personnalisé pour aider les participants à présenter leurs projets aux acteurs de l’industrie.

De nombreux partenaires de l’événement remettent chaque année des prix aux participants. Le Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée (CNC) remet notamment 8000 € pour le développement de scénarios. Onassis Film Award récompense de 10,000 euros l’un des projets grecs présentés. Dix prix sont ainsi remis chaque année.

Parmi les projets sélectionnés on trouve : THE APPALLING HUMAN VOICE OF THE ANIMALS de Neritan Zinxhiria (Grèce), A WHITE HOUSE de Francesco Romano (Italie, France), BLEACH (Kosovo, Macédoine du Nord, Monténégro), DYING BIRD de Diego Llorente (Espagne) ou encore THE HUNCHBACK de Ahu Ozturk (Turquie).

Sources : Cineuropa, Film Festival

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 Women Doc Accelerator

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

Voy! Voy! Voy!

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

OFIC

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

L’Affaire Vinča Curie

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

Festival Annecy 2024

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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