Category: CINEMA

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EUROPE / ENACTING Digital Film Festival: call for films

Enacting

The European digital film festival ENACTING, which will be held online on April 28th and 29th, has extended its call for documentaries. The deadline for submissions was initially April 15th but has been extended to April 20th. The competition is open to film-makers (professional or amateur) from all over the world and the documentary entered …

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ITALY – PORTUGAL / Filming Miguel Gomes’ new feature

Uma Pedra No Sapato

Portuguese director Miguel Gomes is currently in Italy shooting his new film Grand Tour. The story begins in 1917 in Rangoon, Burma. Edward, a British colonial administrator, runs away from his fiancée, Molly, the day she arrives for their wedding. As he travels, panic gives way to melancholy. Faced with the emptiness of his existence, …

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ITALY – SERBIA / Co-production agreement signed

Forum pour la coopération économique et scientifique

On March 21st during the Forum for Economic and Scientific Cooperation in Belgrade, a film co-production agreement was signed by Maja Gojković, the Serbian Government’s Vice-President and Minister of Culture, and Antonio Tajani, Vice-Chair of Italy’s Council of Ministers’ and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. This agreement concerns every type of cinematographic and …

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TUNISIA / Closure of two cinemas

Cinéma Amilcar

Two Tunisian cinemas, the Amilcar and Ciné Jamil, closed their doors in March. The single-screen, 211-seat Amilcar, which opened in 2015 near the Tunis-Manar university campus, closed down on March 13th. The Ciné Jamil, on the outskirts of Tunis in the Menzah 6 district, closed soon afterwards. According to Ciné Jamil’s team they closed because …

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ROMANIA / Radu Jude’s next film begins post-production

Radu_Jude_IFFR_2020

After winning the Golden Bear at the 2021 Berlinale, Radu Jude returns with a new film, Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World, currently in post-production. Divided into two parts, the film follows an overworked and underpaid production assistant who is researching a video on safety in the workplace commissioned by …

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MOROCCO / Record turnover for the CCM

Centre Cinématographique Marocain

Khalid Saidi, acting CEO of the Centre Cinématographique Marocain (CCM), has announced that in 2022 foreign filming in the country earned two billion dirhams, or around €179 million. That nearly doubles October 2022’s original forecast of just over one billion. As a reminder, the turnover in 2019, the last year before all filming was halted, …

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ALBANIA / Start of production for “Man of the House”

Lissus Media

Andamion Murataj’s first feature Man of the House has officially begun production. Man of the House is about Fran who, although born a woman, has chosen to live as a celibate man in the recognised tradition of Albanian Sworn Virgins. By taking a vow of chastity Fran is given the status of a man, allowing …

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