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After a year’s delay, the first multiplex in the Moroccan port city of El Jadida is scheduled to open this July. Managed by CINEATLAS, it will contain three cinemas with a total of 338 seats. The building also houses a library, a garden and an auditorium. The project was initiated by Pierre-François Bernet, a French …
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The Spanish comedy The Good Boss (El buen patrón) has won four awards at the Platino Awards ceremony for Ibero-American cinema. Organized annually since 2014 by EGEDA (Society for Audiovisual Producers Rights Management) and FIPCA (Ibero-American Federation of Film and Audio-visual Producers), these awards promote Ibero-American films internationally. The Good Boss by Fernando León de …
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The Bosnian animation feature Prospi Vode Za Mnom has been selected for the Mifa Pitches at the Annecy Festival. Created by the festival organisers, Mifa pitches offer a selection of the best animation projects in development. This year they will be held between June 15th and 16th, with 32 films selected in 4 categories: Feature …
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A new video-on-demand platform for North African and Middle-Eastern films, YEMA, has announced its official launch on June 9th. YEMA describes itself as “the first VOD platform for North African and Middle-Eastern films.”To promote films from these countries the platform carefully selects content: “Every month, in addition to a rich and eclectic catalogue, our team …
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Nehir Tuna’s first feature, Yurt, has begun post-production. This Turkish, German and French co-production has received several grants, including one for production and development from Sundance and another from the German-Turkish co-production development fund. Yurt is set in Turkey at the end of the 1990’s, with the country marked by religious tension and discrimination against …
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FICAM (the Festival international du cinéma d’animation de Meknès) celebrated its 20th anniversary from May 6th to 11th. Organized jointly by the Aïcha Foundation and the Institut français, the festival celebrated Moroccan animated films by creating the first Moroccan animation film forum. The forum ran from May 6th to 8th, bringing professional animators together with …
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Eleven films, all distributed by the Egyptian company MAD Solutions, were shown at the 12th Malmö Arab Film Festival (MAFF) in Sweden from May 4th to 9th. MAFF is the largest European festival dedicated to films from the Arab world. Each year the event attracts professionals as well as film-buffs. This year it presented 56 …
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