Abdelhamid Bouchnak’s “Papillon d’Or” (Golden Butterfly) has been chosen to represent Tunisia at the 2022 Oscars, competing for the Best International Feature Film Award. The film was selected on October 12th at a committee-meeting chaired by Slim Dargachi, director general of the CNCI (Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image). “A sort of psychic reading or even …
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SERBIA / “Awake”, the first TV series from the Balkans at the CANNESERIES Festival
“Awake” (Kljun), a police drama from Serbia mixes “thriller and fantasy”. The series centres on a young, ambitious detective, Sonja Kljun, assigned to the town of Subotica to investigate an alleged suicide. Her investigation reveals several disturbing secrets, then takes an even stranger turn when her own daughter has premonitory dreams. Directed by Uros Tomic …
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BALKANS / Total success for the biopic “Toma” in ex-Yugoslavia
“Toma” presents us with the life of the hugely popular Yugoslav singer and songwriter Tomislav (Toma) Zdravkovic (played by Milan Marić). In its first week in Bosnia and Herzegovina the film broke box-office records, selling 40,877 tickets, while in its first 5 weeks in Serbia and Montenegro it sold 555,546 and 145,659 in Bosnia. The …
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ITALY / “Mediterráneo : The Law of the Sea” winner of the 16th Rome Film Fest
Marcel Barrena’s “Mediterráneo – The Law of the Sea” won the “FS Audience Award” at the International Rome Film Fest, with the public using the festival’s official app or web-site to vote. The film shows how two Barcelona life-guards created the NGO “Open Arms”. “September 2015. The whole world was shocked by the photograph of …
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TURKEY / “Brother’s Keeper” winner of the 58th Antalya Golden Orange Festival
“Brother’s Keeper” (Okul Tirasi) won Best Film, Best Screenplay and Best Editing at the 58th Antalya Golden Orange Festival, which ran from October 2nd to 9th. Director Ferit Karahan’s second feature was shot in the Bahçesaray district of Van, eastern Turkey, early in 2019. “Young Yusuf and his best friend Memo are pupils at a …
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TURKEY BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA / “Not So Friendly Neighbourhood Affair” opens the 9th Bosphorus Film Festival
Celebrating its 9th year, the Bosphorus Film Festival will run from October 23rd to 30th in Istanbul. The organisers have just unveiled the title of the opening film: “Not So Friendly Neighbourhood Affair” (Deset U Pola) by Bosnian Oscar-winning director Danis Tanovic. The film had its world premiere this summer at the 27th Sarajevo Film …
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TURKEY / “Barbaros: Sword of the Mediterranean”, TRT1’s new hit drama series
“Barbaros: Sword of the Mediterranean” tells the story of Admiral Hayreddin Barbarossa and his 3 brothers Ishak, Oruc and Ilyas. To this day, Barbarossa is regarded as one of Turkey’s greatest sea captains; in the 16th century he and his brothers assured the Ottoman Empire’s supremacy across the Mediterranean. As well as featuring pirates, sailors …
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