Category: CINEMA

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FRANCE / New releases on Amazon Prime Video

Following the new additions to the Netflix catalogue, it’s now Amazon Prime Video’s turn to expand its offer. This month six films by Agnès Varda will be available online: Cléo de 5 à 7 (1962), L’une chante, l’autre pas (1977), Le Bonheur (1965), Les Cent et Une nuits de Simon Cinéma (1995), La pointe courte …

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ITALY / From the Sidelines, a sports documentary

From the Sidelines is a 2019 documentary directed by Simona Cocozza and made during the 30th World University Games in Naples, a multi-sport event organized every two years in a different city to celebrate international university sport and culture. For two weeks the Neapolitan director captured the relationship between coaches and athletes, the tensions, the …

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SPAIN / Los sin nombre adapted as a TV series

Released in 1999, Los sin nombre (The Nameless) was the first feature by Spanish director Jaume Balagueró, helping him become one of the main pillars of the Spanish movement of genre authors. The script was based on a novel by British horror scriptwriter Ramsey Campbell. The central character is Claudia: “Five years after her daughter’s …

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TURKEY / Zuhal completes post-production

Zuhal is the first feature by Turkish film-maker Nazlı Elif Durlu. Having made three short films, Trust Me (2009), Later (2012) and The Horse and the Nightingale (2013), this is her first longer project. Zuhal is about a lawyer of the same name living alone in Istanbul. Although her life is well ordered, she is …

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SPAIN FRANCE / Netflix comes to the help of the film industry

Having made a partnership with the Italian Film Commissions, Netflix is continuing to support broadcasting professionals around the world. In Spain all filming has been stopped for over a month and discussions about government aid for the people working in the industry are difficult. So, to prevent a crisis, the American platform is investing a …

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FRANCE TUNISIA / Project call by the CNC and the CNCI

The French Centre National du Cinéma (CNC) and its Tunisian equivalent, the CNCI, are renewing the bilateral co-production finance fund created in 2017. For three years this fund has provided grants for feature film projects of 60 minutes or more. The films, of any genre, must be intended for an initial cinema release and have …

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ALGERIA / The CADC makes some films available

Like many similar organisations, the Centre Algérien de Développement du Cinéma (CADC) has decided to make culture more accessible during the lockdown by posting several of their films, including shorts, online. First up was Anis Djaâd’s Passage à niveau which can be found on the CADC Youtube channel. Four other films can also be found …

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