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The feature-length documentary, Reborn, directed by Narcisa Darijević Marković (Serbia) and Marija Ratković Vidaković (Sweden-Croatia) is now in post-production. Supported by the Serbian Film Centre and the Croatian Audiovisual Centre, Reborn is the story of a 79 year-old woman, Bärbel, who sets out to find her father in Serbia, a man she has never known …
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PriMed, the International Festival of Mediterranean Documentary and Reportage is launching film registrations for the 30th edition. Directors can register their documentaries for free, directly online on the festival website www.primed.tv. The deadline to send the works is April 27, 2026. The PriMed – International Documentary and Mediterranean Reportage Award is open to all authors, …
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In 2025 the income from Croatian cinemas reached a historic high of €22.5 million. This increase is largely due to a rise in the average ticket price from €5.80 to €6.35. 2025 was also the best year for local films since 2013, with a total of 328,526 admissions. Documentaries accounted for a significant portion of …
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During a New Year’s speech, the Malta Film Commissioner, Johann Grech, reviewed his eight years at the helm of the commission. “In eight years,” he said, “two hundred productions have been filmed, spending approximately €730 million locally.” He estimates that the film industry has contributed nearly €1.5 billion to the Maltese economy. Johann Grech also …
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The Toulouse Occitanie Palestine Film Festival returns for its 12th year from March 9th to 17th. This year’s Festival promises to be a beacon of hope, with a poster designed by Rami Abbas which, the organisers feel, evokes Mahmoud Darwish’s phrase: “I try to raise Hope as one raises a child.” In their press release, …
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Released in Italian cinemas on December 25th 2025, Buen Camino has become the highest-grossing film at the Italian box office in just 24 days, surpassing the record held by James Cameron’s Avatar (2009). In little over three weeks, Buen Camino sold 8,736,227 tickets and generated over €70 million in revenue. This record has had a …
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Morocco’s Minister of Youth, Culture, and Communication, Mohamed Mehdi Bensaid, announced that foreign film productions have generated 1.5 billion dirhams (€140 million). This is a record for the Moroccan film industry. As Mohamed Mehdi Bensaid pointed out, “before 2021, we didn’t exceed 500 million dirhams.” In addition to the growing attractiveness of Moroccan locations, cinema …
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