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EURODOC is organizing an intensive workshop for developing documentary projects from May 29th to June 4th in Palma, Majorca. Applications can be sent until April 27th 2022. For 20 years EURODOC (International Lab For Creative Documentary Production) has organized training sessions throughout Europe for people developing creative documentary projects. Each session consists of 3 one-week …
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With the help of his NGO Tiro for Arts, Lebanese actor/director Kassem Istanbouli is restoring Tripoli’s Empire Cinema. Dating from the 1940’s the Empire is the last cinema still standing in Tell Square – where there used to be five. It has been closed since 1988. Even though Tripoli is the Lebanon’s second largest city …
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In a recent press release, the Marrakesh International Film Festival Foundation announced that its 19th edition will be held from November 11th to 19th. The last two festivals were postponed because of the pandemic, and the Foundation has said that“this year’s event will take into account the evolving health situation in Morocco and in the …
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During the closing ceremony of the International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights (FIFDH), the jury awarded the Grand Prix de Genève to Giovanni Buccomino’s After a Revolution. This documentary retraces the journey of a brother and sister divided by the Libyan civil war. She fought for the rebels and he sided with head …
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The Finnish Tampere Film Festival, specifically for international short films, was held from March 8th to 12th. The international jury awarded the Grand Prix to Granny’s Sexual Life, a Franco-Slovenian short animated documentary. Directors Urška Djukic and Émilie Pigeard were given the “Kiss” statuette and €5,000. The film opens with four elderly women reflecting on …
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Kosovar director Blerta Basholli’s first feature, Hive, will be released in France on June 1st. It has won many awards at major international festivals, including three at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival (Audience Award, Jury Award and Best Director). Shown the same year at Montpellier’s Cinemed, the film won the Antigone d’Or. It is also …
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Created in 2018, this festival purely for women directors Cine Por Mujeres (Films by Women) returns for a 5th year in Madrid from October 25th to November 6th. The role of women in film-making has long been underrated: it wasn’t until 2010 that a woman won the Oscar for Best Director – Kathryn Bigelow; in …
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