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Swiss director Julia Bünter has produced her first feature, Fiancées. Her previous credits include Jour J (2014), selected for various festivals (in particular the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival) and À la maison (2015). Filmed in Egypt, Fiancées follows three young women as they head towards marriage. Bünter’s aim was to make a film portrait …
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Aït-Benhaddou is a Moroccan ksar, or fortified village, in the Ounila Valley, in the province of Ouarzazate. Since 1987 it has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Directors from all over the world come here to make their films : Sodom and Gomorrah (1962), The Mummy (1999) and Gladiator (2000) were filmed in Aït-Benhaddou. More …
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The ZoomInWomen festival is part of a collaboration between Zatek (the Cairo-based Digital Museum of Women, an on-line system to help women’s emancipation) and the British Embassy, which in 2016 created Inspire Egypt, an event for Egyptians wanting to change their society’s attitudes to women. ZoomInWomen is a travelling event, using short films to show …
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EKRAN + is a European professional training programme for directors, helping professionals to develop their film projects. First, by focusing on the script. Then, by working on the audiovisual aspects. And finally by discussing how to get the best out of the other professionals during a shoot. Each participating project has a creative team of …
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On February 14th the president of the Spanish Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences, Mariano Barroso, and the director of the Cervantes Institute, Luis Garcia Montero, formalized a collaboration agreement to promote Spanish films in the Institute’s branches – which are active in 80 cities in 45 different countries. “The two institutions are following the …
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Syrian director Feras Fayyad was nominated for an Academy Award this year in the Best Documentary Film category for The Cave. In 2018 he was nominated in the same category for Last Men in Aleppo,following volunteer rescue teams in the heart of Aleppo after five years of war. The background of The Cave is the …
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In August 2019 the Metropolis Association launched an appeal to save Beirut’s last art-house cinema, an essential venue for independent films. The crowdfunding operation was successful, but nevertheless the Empire Sofil Cinema has now closed. In a press release dated January 21st Metropolis said that “The technical, financial and operational management of the cinema were …
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