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Meditalents has published the names of the projects and their creators selected for the LabSud residency which ran from November 3rd to 7th. Every year since 2017 Meditalents has sponsored 4 to 6 projects for first or second feature-length drama films being developed by film-makers and screenwriters living in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region. For one …
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The selection of films for the 28th PriMed – International Festival of Mediterranean Documentary and Reportage – is now available! PriMed returns to Marseilles this year from 30 November to 7 December with 23 documentaries an reports. With 12 films making their French premieres, the festival has established itself as a leading event devoted entirely …
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The BBC has announced that the film Life and Death in Gaza will air on BBC Two on October 15th and then be available outside the UK on the BBC World Service YouTube page. From terrifying bombing raids to countless evacuations, the intensity of family separations and reunions to the deaths and even the birth …
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Goethe Film Week, organized by the Goethe Institutes in Alexandria and Cairo, screened an Egyptian documentary Memoirs of M.A Draz by Maggie Morgan. Considered by Egyptian critic Mahmoud Abd El Shakour “one of the best films of the year,” the documentary is about an Azharite scholar, Mohamed Abdallah Draz, seen through letters, diaries, and photographs …
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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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The Commission algérienne has submitted Chakib Taleb-Bendiab’s Algiers for the 2025 Oscar nominations. Co-produced by Algeria and Canada, Taleb-Bendiab’s film is about an investigation led by a psychologist, Dounia, and a police Inspector trying to find a little girl kidnapped during the Algerian civil war. The film is Chakib Taleb-Bendiab’s first feature. Before that he …
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The festival for Middle Eastern documentaries, Middle East Now, is preparing its 15th edition which will be held in Florence from October 15th to 20th. This year’s theme: Ecologies of Resistance. For the festival organisers this theme covers both the climate crisis and war, two tragedies they consider “deeply intertwined”. Using the earthquakes which hit …
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