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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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Produced by PREMIERstudio and supported by the Bulgarian National Film Centre, director Dimitar Stoyanovich has completed shooting his first drama feature, Flesh. The script, also by Stoyanovich, centres on Nadezhda (played by Plamena Getova) who, while translating Nobel Prize winner Yukio Kobayashi’s novel Flesh, discovers she has a brain tumour. Constructed around three parallel stories, …
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The Malta Film Commission has announced the launch of Creative Malta, a financing programme aimed at local producers. During the first phase €600,000 will be made available for selected projects. There will be a call for projects which, to simplify the application procedure, will require less documentation at the first stage. The Minister of Tourism, …
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