Category: CINEMA

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MOROCCO / Clebs wins awards at the Berlinale

Halima Ouardir’s new film, Clebs [Dogs], won the Crystal Bear for Best Short Film at this year’s Berlin Film Festival. “The dogs’ coats – brown, beige, black and white – blend with the ochre of the earth and the sun-drenched walls. Quiet when they’re resting, the place becomes deafening at feeding time when the animals …

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ALGERIA / Call for the Khenchela cinematheque to re-open

The Journées cinématographiques de Khenchela took place from February 18th to 22nd, under the banner “The Emancipating Revolution – as seen through Algerian films”. To open up a wider debate and create a culture of community sharing, film screenings were organised in several communes: notably at Tamaza, Kaïs and Chechar. During the closing ceremony, there …

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EGYPT / Release in Switzerland of Julia Bünter’s Fiancées

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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MOROCCO / Aït-Benhaddou, an unbeatable film location in Morocco

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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EGYPT / ZoomInWomen: call for short films open

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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CROATIA / Two Croatian films chosen for EKRAN+

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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SPAIN / Agreement between the Academia de las artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España and the Instituto Cervantes

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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