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BULGARIA / The winners at the Sofia International Film Festival

The Sofia International Film Festival announced the winners of its 30th edition at its awards ceremony on March 21st. The Festival ran from March 12th to March 21st. The programme featured 145 fiction, documentary and animated films from 60 countries and 6 continents. In the First and Second Feature Film Competition, director Ralitza Petrova won …

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BULGARIA / Bulgaria extends its rebate policy for film shoots

Wanting to increase its appeal as host for national and international film productions, Bulgaria is expanding its cash rebate scheme. The cap on rebates, initially set at €1 million, has been raised to €5 million per project. The percentage remains unchanged: productions can still be reimbursed up to 25% of their eligible expenses. This rebate …

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ROMANIA / The Astra Film Festival announces its selection

The Astra Film Festival has announced its selection for this year’s event, which runs from October 17th to 26th in Sibiu, Romania. There will be five competitions, including a new category, DocShorts, with ten short documentaries. These will include Aitana by Marina Alberti (Spain), Beware of the Southern Stars by Christos Karteris (Greece), and Cosmonauts …

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BALKANS / A support programme for women film-makers announces its chosen projects

Five projects have been selected as part of the Female Film-makers Support Programme. Created in 2024 in conjunction with the Sarajevo Film Festival and Slano Film Days, this initiative supports and empowers the work of women film-makers from six southeastern European countries: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Romania and Bulgaria. As well as guidance it offers …

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BULGARIA / The Bulgarian National Film Centre opens an online platform

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The Bulgarian National Film Centre (NFC) has launched a digital platform filmcenter.bg. The free platform, available in English, offers foreign producers a directory of national crews, companies and actors. The goal is to make organising film shoots in Bulgaria easier for foreign companies. It also features a guide to natural locations and monuments. In the …

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BULGARIA-TURKEY / Inter Medya sells three series to Bulgaria

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Turkish production company Inter Medya has signed licensing agreements in Bulgaria for three series: The Trusted, Deception and Bitter Lands. Directed by Murat Saraçoğlu, Deception digs into the seemingly perfect family life of Güzide, a family court judge in Istanbul. But then she discovers her husband and her children are all lying to her. The …

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GREECE / TIDF announces the projects chosen for the Pitching Forum

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Agora, the industry section of the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival (TIDF), has named the 14 projects which will take part in the Pitching Forum, to be held from March 7th to 15th. Created in 1999, Agora is a major event for producing and financing international documentary projects from Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East. …

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