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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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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 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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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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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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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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Slovak director Viera Čakányová will premiere her new experimental documentary, Notes from Eremocene at the 73rd Berlinale. Entered in the Forum section, which looks at and reflects on the medium of film, Notes from Eremocene takes its title from a concept introduced by biologist Edward O. Wilson in which he calls the next geological era …
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