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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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This year’s European Film Market will be held from February 20th to 27th. The event is a market promoting meetings between various strands of the film business. For a week, international representatives come together to exchange views and present their different programmes. This year the French production company Totem Films, created in 2018, will present …
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January 18th was the final wrap for La vampira de Barcelona. With this feature film Lluís Danés, a Spanish / Catalan director best known for documentaries such as Llach: La revolta permanente (2006), is now trying his hand at drama. He and his crew have been immersed in a period drama about a Barcelona prostitute, …
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Boris T. Matić and Hrvoje Laurenta, respectively director and executive director of the Zagreb Film Festival, have announced the creation of Croatian.film, an internet platform for promoting Croatian short films. It will be a way, the two men hope, to give the international public an idea of the high quality of Croatian short films. They …
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The Arab Cinema Centre (ACC) has enlarged its jury for the 4th Critics’ Awards for Arab Films. Originally there were just 75 jurors, then 67 new members were added, making a committee of 142 critics from 57 countries in five continents, the largest jury in any competition of Arab world films. Last September the ACC …
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Kaouther Ben Hania, Tunisian director of Le Challat de Tunis (2013), Zaineb n’aime pas la neige (2016) and La Belle et la Meute (2017) is preparing a new feature film, L’Homme qui a vendu sa peau (The Man Who Sold His Skin). His crew travelled between locations in Tunisia, Belgium and the south of France. …
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