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A first film by Lebanese directors Michelle and Noel Keserwany, Les Chenilles, won the Golden Bear for Best Short at the 73rd Berlinale. Co-produced in France by Dewberries Films and the Lyon Biennale, the story is about two young women from the Levant, Asma and Sarah, both waitresses in the same restaurant in Lyon. Initially …
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During a Council of Ministers on February 20th, the Algerian President, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, insisted meetings be arranged to discuss the cinema sector. By bringing film professionals together he hopes to improve the parliamentary bill on the film industry. The President stressed that this bill, on hold pending these meetings, “must inspire a real motivation and …
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On March 1st 2023, Spain ceded the Gran Teatro Cervantes to the Kingdom of Morocco. Located in the heart of Tangier, this emblematic cultural venue was designed in 1913 by the Spanish architect Diego Jiménez Armstrong. Built by a wealthy Andalusian couple, the theatre became the property of the Spanish state in 1928. With nearly …
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Presented in preview during the last Cannes Film Festival, Marco Bellochio’s television series Esterno Notte will be shown on Arte on March 15th and 16th at 8:55 p.m. It has already been available online since March 8th on arte.tv. The series is about the 1978 kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, a former prime minister …
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Produced by Algerian Television, some of the filming for Amar Mohsene’s Souika was done in the square outside Constantine’s Ahmed Bey Palace. Like the film about Youcef Zighoud, Souika celebrates the Algerian veterans of the French occupation, this time describing events of the Algerian war which happened in Souika, one of Constantine’s old quarters. The …
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The international rights for the Serbian film Music have been bought by the French company Shellac. The film premiered at the 73rd Berlinale. Written and directed by Angela Schanelec, it is freely inspired by the Oedipus myth. Abandoned at birth on a stormy night in the Greek mountains, without having known either his father or …
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Presented in 2014 during Montpellier’s Cinemed Meetings, Nick Igea’s first feature Un paseo por el Borne (A walk through el Born) is currently filming in Palma on Majorca. Co-written by Nick Igea, Elio Quiroga and Zebina Guerra, the film is about a man in his late fifties, Martín (played by Rodolfo Sancho), who has not …
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