In partnership with the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC), Netflix has announced the five Arab women directors and producers who will receive the Netflix Fund for Creative Equity. Created in 2021 this fund “is a dedicated effort to create new opportunities for under-represented communities within entertainment,” according to the Netflix web site. The …
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Slovenia / Nejc Gazvoda shoots his third film, “Father Figure”
Slovenian director Nejc Gazvoda, has started filming his third feature film, Father Figure. Shot in the director’s home town, Novo Mesto, the film should be ready early next year. Father Figure follows a 14-year-old boy, Jan, and his mother Maja. After a painful divorce, Maja and her son move from Ljubljana to a small town …
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France / The selection for the Cannes Festival has been announced
On April 14th Thierry Frémaux, director of the Cannes Film Festival, announced the official selection of films for the 75th festival, scheduled for May 17th – 28th. This year 21 films are in the running for the Palme d’Or. Among the directors, the Romanian Cristian Mungiu, who has already won several awards at Cannes. In …
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Cyprus / “Dog” wins awards at Cyprus Film Days
The 20th Cyprus Film Days (CFD) took place from April 8th to 16th in two Cypriot towns, Limassol and Nicosia. The international jury – Karel Och, Alise Gelze, David Martinez, Daphne Alexander and Greg Stępniak – gave the Best Cypriot Film Award to Dog. The film’s director, Yianna Americanou, received €4,000. The principal actor, Dimitris …
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Morocco / 2022 films benefiting from an advance on ticket sales have been announced
The Commission d’Aide à la Production des œuvres cinématographiques, chaired by Ghita El Khayat, has announced which films will receive an advance on box office takings. Taking all categories together – features, documentaries and shorts – the Commission considered nearly 80 films in its first session of 2022. Among them 5 features, 6 documentaries and …
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Syria / Sabaya wins the top award at ZagrebDox
The jury of the 18th ZagrebDox International Documentary Film Festival (see our article on this subject) chose Hogir Hirori’s film Sabaya for its main award, the Big Stamp. The members of the jury – Katarina Zrinka Matijević, Mikhail Gorobchuk and Dalibor Matanić – were “captivated by the thriller-suspenseful drama, the insanely brave camera, fascinatingly wise …
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Jordan / The Royal Film Commission opens a Film Centre at Karak
On April 11th Jordan’s Royal Film Commission (RFC) announced that it had signed a one-year memorandum of understanding with the Creativity Club of Al Karak to create a Film Centre in Karak. It was signed by Mohannad Al Bakri, the RFC’s general manager, and Husam Tarawneh, director of Al Karak’s Creativity Club. The new centre …
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