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In a press statement on July 24th the Ministry of Culture announced the new chairman of the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée, Dominique Boutonnat, a French producer – the first time this job has been given to a film professional, not an administrator. M. Boutonnat will take over from Frédérique Bredin, whose …
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The Egyptian actor Farouk El Fichaoui died of cancer on July 25th in Cairo, at the age of 67. Born in 1952 in Al-Minufiyah, Farouk El Fichaoui graduated in literature from Cairo’s Ain Shams University, then continued his training at the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts. His career began in the mid-1970’s, and in 1976 …
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Antonio Resines and Ana Pérez-Lorente are making Historias de nuestro cine, a documentary on the history of Spanish cinema, produced by FlixOlé, the largest cinema platform on the Iberian Peninsula. The documentary, the platform’s first production, is structured chronologically, combining excerpts from films with interviews featuring Spanish cinema’s most important actors, directors and critics. Carmen …
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Sky Italia has announced the filming of its new original creation, Romulus, in Rome and the surrounding area. The filming schedule will span 28 weeks. The project has been assigned to the Italian director Matteo Rovere, who is once again looking at the legendary founding of Rome — he directed Il Primo Re, a feature …
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The filming of When I’m Done Dying lasted 4 weeks and has just ended in Istanbul. Written and directed by the young Turkish filmmaker Nisan Dağ, the film is now being edited. The film is about a 19-year-old rapper — Fehmi — from a difficult suburb of Istanbul. Despite his talent, Fehmi’s addiction to drugs …
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The Cannes Film Market’s Doc Corner gave its first award, called Docs-in-Progress and worth €10,000, to Their Algeria, a documentary by Lina Soualem, a Franco-Palestinian-Algerian actor/director. The award was announced on May 21st, DocDay. Their Algeria was chosen from 24 works-in-progress, presented by six countries: Palestine, Argentina, Canada, South Africa, Norway and Chile. On the …
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Monika Borgmann and Lokman Slim’s documentary Tadmor will be released in French cinemas on June 5th. The film gives voice to a group of 22 Lebanese ex-prisoners, determined to speak out about their long years in prison in Palmyra (Syria), after the popular uprising against the Syrian regime in 2011. In a series of individual …
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