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During the 37thInternational Festival of Francophone Film in Namur (Belgium), the jury, chaired by producer Annabella Nezri, gave the Bayard d’or to Franco-Tunisian director Erige Sehiri for her first drama feature Sous les figues. First shown during the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes, the film looks at the daily lives of young women and men who …
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The 29th Astra Film Festival took place from October 9th to 16th in Sibiu, Romania. Absent for two years because of the pandemic, the festival has returned in force with more than 100 documentaries shown to the public. Considered the “doyen of Romanian cinema”, Astra has made its mission to “raise awareness of the realities …
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After the success of two features, The Tree (2014) and History of Love (2018), Slovenian director Sonja Prosenc has started filming her new film Redemption. With an end of November deadline, it takes place in Ljubljana, on the Karst plateau and in Italy’s Friuli-Venezia Giulia region. Developed during a residency in Paris at the Pop …
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The Spanish-based Enfoques Cultural Association, which organizes the Play-Doc international documentary film festival, is launching a new platform: VENTURA. Created for independent directors and producers, it wants to bring film industry professionals together around innovative national and international projects which show “a strong artistic vision of cinema.” VENTURA offers a programme which includes professional training, …
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A graduate of the Paris film-school La Fémis in 2011, Kamal Lazraq is shooting his first feature film Les Meutes, for which he also wrote the script. The scenario is about a father and son. They live in a deprived area of Casablanca, surviving only by working for the local mafia. One night a man …
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The acting head of the Centre Cinématographique Marocain (CCM), Khalid Saidi, announced that foreign productions filming in Morocco are generating a record turnover. According to Mr. Saidi, the estimated income for this year exceeds one billion dirhams (around €93 million) against 211 million dirhams in 2020. Filming was stopped during the pandemic and borders closed …
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The call for films for the 25th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival is open until December 8th. The TDF is one of the most important documentary festivals in Europe. Every year it celebrates the art of documentary through a rich programme of films, events and forums for professionals. The festival has 4 competitive sections: – International Feature-length: …
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