Category: BALKANS

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

SLOVENIA / Eight features supported by the Slovenian Film Centre are being made

Slovenian Film Center

The Slovenian Film Centre has announced that 8 feature films it is supporting will be shot in 2024. One of the films listed, Girl of the Night, began filming in February. It is about a young kleptomaniac who foolishly steals a bike from a young woman who believes she is a crime-fighting superhero – for …

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GREECE / The festival Beyond Borders presents its poster

Beyond Borders

The 9th Beyond Borders, the international documentary festival held on the Greek island of Kastellorizo, will run from August 25th to September 1st, and to publicize the event the organisers have revealed the Festival poster. This year’s theme will be the concept “twice a stranger”. As the press release says, this notion reflects “the exchange …

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GREECE / The Thessaloniki Documentary Festival’s AGORA announces its selected projects

Festival documentaire de Thessalonique AGORA

AGORA, the professional section of the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival, has announced the projects selected for the Pitching Forum and for AGORA Docs in Progress. Held in parallel with the festival, from March 8th to 16th, AGORA encourages collaboration, innovation and cultural exchange. It impacts nearly 500 industry professionals each year. Twelve projects from 11 …

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ROMANIA / The trans-media documentary “Government of Children II” starts post-production

Government of Children

Writer / director Ioana Mischie is currently in post-production on her trans-media documentary Government of Children II. Produced by Studioset and Storyscapes, this project encourages children to express their view on the world’s problems – and also give possible solutions. In this ground-breaking concept, children from various ethnic, social and educational backgrounds in Romania but …

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CROATIA / Two Croatian co-productions win awards at the Trieste Film Festival

Trieste-Film-Festival

Two Croatian co-productions, Between Revolutions and The Sea in Between, won awards at the Trieste Film Festival ( January 19th to 27th). The Sea in Between, a short drama film by Lun Sevnik, won the PAG platform Jury Award. The Slovenian, Croatian and Czech co-production was recognized for its ability to capture “the soul of …

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SERBIA / The 17th Kustendorf Festival of Film and Music closes

Kustendorf-Film-and-Music-Festival

Created by the director Emir Kusturica, the Kustendorf Film and Music Festival ran from January 23rd to 27th. 536 short films were submitted to the festival, with just 17 selected for the competition – but a selection containing a wide diversity of films, such as Maša Šarović’s 9-5 (Serbia), Nikos Kyritsis’ Highway of a Broken …

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EUROPE / The Council of Europe supports seven series co-productions

Council-of-Europe

The results of the first evaluation session of the Council of Europe’s Pilot Programme for Series Co-production have been announced. Seven co-productions will be supported for a total of €3 million. Among the titles selected, the Greater Adria series (Croatia, Italy, Germany and Belgium) will receive €500,000. It is the first series co-production involving Croatia …

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