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EGYPT – ALGERIA / The Life After at the Luxor African Film Festival

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Anis Djaad’s The Life After was screened at the 12th Luxor African Film Festival. Organized in the town of Luxor, the festival was held from February 4th to 10th. Created in 2012 to remedy the low representation of African films in Egypt, the event champions African films and encourages partnerships between the continent’s film-makers. The …

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MOROCCO / First general assembly for the Union marocaine des festivals de cinéma

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Announced in September 2022 by representatives from several film festivals, the Union marocaine des festivals de cinéma (UMFC) held its first general assembly on January 7th in Rabat and elected its executive board. Ben Younes Bahkani (director of the Saidia Film Festival) was elected president, Azzedine El Ouafi (director of the Cap Spartel Festival in …

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ALGERIA / Launch of the “Cinéma de l’université” project

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On January 17th the Algerian Minister of Culture and the Arts, Soraya Mouloudji, and the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Kamel Baddari, inaugurated a project called Cinéma de l’université. The inauguration was held at the M’hamed Bougara University of Boumerdès, attended by representatives from the project’s main partner, the Centre National de la …

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THE ARAB WORLD / The Red Sea Fund unveils its supported projects

Red Sea Fund

The Red Sea Fund, linked to the Saudi Red Sea International Film Festival, has announced the 36 selected projects which will receive its financial support. According to its organisers the Fund is “unleashing the biggest funding boost for the industry this year”, with an overall grant of $14 million (€13 million). Selected Saudi, Arab and …

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MOROCCO / A new director and reforms at the CCM

Centre Cinématographique Marocain

The Minister of Youth, Culture and Communication, Mehdi Bensaïd, has said that the call for applications for the post of Director General of the Centre Cinématographique Marocain (CCM) will soon be open. Since Sarim Fassi-Firhi’s departure in 2021 the CCM has been without a head. Abdelaziz Bouzadaini is the current acting director, the third person …

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ROMANIA / « Between Revolutions » selected for the 73th Berlin Film Festival

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Vlad Petri’s feature-length documentary Between Revolutions will premiere at the 73rd Berlin Film Festival (February 16th-26th) in the Forum category. Produced by Monica Lăzurean-Gorgan of Activ Docs and co-produced by Oliver Sertic for the Croatian company Restart, Between Revolutions is about two students at Bucharest University in the 1970’s, Zahra and Maria. Zahra, an Iranian, …

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FRANCE / Registration open for the GREC residential workshop

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The GREC’s residential workshop, “Short Film Script”, will take place from April 4th to 18th in Port-de-Bouc, near Marseille. It is organized in partnership with regional administrators, Port-de-Bouc’s town hall and the local cinema, Le Méliès. There will be one-on-one meetings with scriptwriters and also collective work sessions to discuss participants’ scripts, visualise them with …

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