Category: BALKANS

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

ROMANIA / The Astra Film Festival celebrates its 30 years

Astra film festival

Created in 1993, the Astra Film Festival this year celebrates 30 years of showing documentary films from Romania, Eastern Europe and more broadly from around the world. The festivities will take place from October 15thto 22nd in Sibiu. Astra has become one of the main platforms for documentary cinema in Romania and Eastern Europe and …

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BALKANS / “Warm Film”, a documentary about the representation of gays

Warm Film

Warm Film, a documentary co-directed by Dragan Jovićević (journalist and writer) and Nikola Ljuca (director), about the way gays are represented in Yugoslav and Serbian cinema, is entering post-production. When two up-and-coming actors (played by Đorđe Mišina and Đorđe Galić) are cast as gays in a movie, they make it their mission to explore how …

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BOSNIA – HERZEGOVINA / Maja Novaković starts post-production for her new film

At the Door of the House Who Will Come Knocking

Recently awarded the Al Jazeera Balkans Award at the Beldocs Pitching Forum, the docu-drama At the Door of the House Who Will Come Knocking by director Maja Novaković is entering post-production. The film is scheduled for release in the first half of 2024. Written by Ms. Novaković and Jonathan Hourigan, the film is set on …

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GREECE / Beyond Borders announces the programme of its 8th edition

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The 8th International Documentary Festival of Castellorizo – Beyond Borders (August 20th to 27th) has announced its programme. Organized by the Hellenic History Foundation in collaboration with the association Ecrans des Mondes (France) and the South Aegean Region, this festival encourages film-making about History and Society. In their press release the festival organisers say that …

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BALKANS / Launching a regional academy for film and television

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During the 3rd Ponta Lopud Film Festival (June 20th– 24th), the organisers launched the Regional Film and TV Academy together with their colleagues at the Sarajevo Film Festival. Their aim is to develop the mentoring, exchange and promotion of film and television projects produced in all the countries of former Yugoslavia. It will organise professional …

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BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA/ The Sarajevo Film Festival announces its nominated series

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The 29th Sarajevo Film Festival, which will take place from August 11th to 18th, has announced the 19 television series nominated for the Heart of Sarajevo Awards. There are 14 awards in all. Those chosen fall into two categories: the first is for drama series with 8 awards and the second for comedies with 6 …

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ALBANIA/ “Waterdrop” by Robert Budina now in post-production

Era Film

Writer-director Robert Budina, is currently in post-production with his third feature: Waterdrop. Set in a small Albanian town, the main character is the director of urban planning at the town hall. Together with her husband and the mayor, she works a successful system of corruption. But when her 16-year-old son is charged with raping a …

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