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Anca Damian, Romanian film-maker, is currently working on her fourth feature, The Island. Scripted with Augusto Zanovello, the film is co-produced by Aparte Film (Romania), Take Five (Belgium) and Komadoli (France). The director describes her work as a musical and a “back-to-front version of the Robinson Crusoe story”. Several characters are the same as in …
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Like all audiovisual industries across the planet, Greece has had difficulties since the beginning of the year due to the Covid-19 crisis. The Ministry of Culture has passed resolutions to help the sector, setting up, for example, an emergency fund of €15 million. The Greek Cinema Centre (GFC) also wanted to play its part by …
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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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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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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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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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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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