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Morocco / Nabil Ayouch launches Aflamin, a new Moroccan streaming platform

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The new Moroccan streaming platform Aflamin has been operational since February 24th. Headed by director Nabil Ayouch and the company Ali N’ Productions, this platform is distributing and promoting classic and contemporary Moroccan films. Within a couple of years it hopes to be showing every Moroccan film, some of which are still hard to find. …

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Croatia / Judita Gamulin has won the Eurimages Co-production Award at Rotterdam

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Croatian director Judita Gamulin won the main award at the CineMart co-production market during the International Film Festival Rotterdam. The award, given by Eurimages, is to help film production. During the closing ceremony on February 2nd Ms. Gamulin received €20,000 for her project Leave the Door Open. From the 17 projects presented at CineMart, the …

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Croatia / The ZagrebDox festival begins in April

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After two challenging years, the International Documentary Film Festival ZagrebDox will run this year from April 3rd to 10th. Moved several times, for its 18th edition the event returns to Kaptol Boutique Cinema. Organized with the support of the City of Zagreb and the Audiovisual Centre of Croatia, ZagrebDox is a festival of contemporary documentary …

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Morocco – Tunisia / A Moroccan short wins award at the Tunis International Panorama

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Moroccan director Zakaria Nouri won Best Director Award at the Tunis International Panorama Festival for his film Aicha, chosen from the 20 short fiction films and 4 short documentaries in the competition. Organised by film-maker Kamal Aouij, the event was held at the Tunisian Cinematheque from February 8th to 10th. Aicha describes the bleak life …

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Turkey / The Foça Films Days opens its call for films

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Now in its 5th year, the Foça International Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Documentary Film Days (Foça Film Days) has opened its call for applications. The closing date is April 30th. Foça Film Days is a documentary film festival focussing on archaeological heritage. The theme of this year’s event is “Change/Transformation”: “how and why humans initiate …

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Spain / La Mostra de València increases the value of its awards and creates a new one

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The 37th Mostra de València del Mediterrani will take place from October 20th to 30th 2022. In a recent press release the festival announced its awards are evolving and detailed some changes to them in this year’s event. The Palme d’or, the festival’s highest award, will be increased from €25,000 to €30,000. There is also …

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Egypt – Tunisia / The Tunisian film Salwa banned from being shown at the Alexandria Short Film Festival

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Salwa, a short film by Tunisian director Ines Ben Othman, was banned from being screened at the 8th Alexandria Short Film Festival, although it was still allowed to participate in the competition. The festival organisers told Ms Ben Othman of their decision two days before the festival opened, which was held from February 10th to …

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