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During the Cannes Film Festival the Association of European Cinematheques launched their 6th Season of Classic Films. During the event a restoration grant of €70,000 was allocated to restore Bosnian director Ivica Matić’s Landscape with a Woman plus five of her experimental shorts. A director and cinematographer, Ivica Matić died aged 28 in 1976. She …
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On May 5th Donald Trump announced online that he was implementing a 100% tariff on American films shot outside the country. “We want films made in America” he declared. While the details remain unclear, the tax is worrying the audiovisual sector in many countries, including Morocco where, according to Atlas Studio, American productions represent 30% …
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The Bulgarian National Film Centre (NFC) has launched a digital platform filmcenter.bg. The free platform, available in English, offers foreign producers a directory of national crews, companies and actors. The goal is to make organising film shoots in Bulgaria easier for foreign companies. It also features a guide to natural locations and monuments. In the …
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Evil Eye, the first feature of director Adnan Hrustemović, is starting post-production. It is also the first horror film made in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Evil Eye follows a retired surgeon whose life is turned upside down after meeting a young woman who claims to be the victim of a terrible curse and haunted by a monster. He …
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Egypt returns to Cannes with Morad Mostafa’s Aisha Can’t Fly Away. It is presented in Un Certain Regard at the 78th Cannes Film Festival. This brutal thriller explores Cairo’s underworld. It centres on a young Somali caretaker, Aisha, living in the marginalized neighbourhood of Ain Shams, home to a large community of African migrants. The …
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The Amman International Film Festival, Awal Film, is launching a new programme to encourage web series: the Spark Series. Developed as part of the Amman Film Industry Days, it will give selected creators of web series the chance to present their projects to an audience of film-makers, producers, distributors and industry professionals. The goal is …
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Shot in Morocco, Olivier Laxe’ Franco-Spanish film Sirat has been selected for the official competition of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. The story is set in Morocco’s Jbel Saghro mountains where Louis, accompanied by his young son, is searching for his daughter who disappeared at an electronic music festival. Their search takes them across the …
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