Category: CINEMA

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EUROMEDITERRANEAN / Imminent creation of the first Euro-Mediterranean Audiovisual Centre

During the Cannes Film Festival, an important agreement was signed by the directors of several Mediterranean broadcasting organisations. Its aim is to create a Euro-Mediterranean Audiovisual Centre. The group of signatories includes Nejib Ayed, director of the Carthage Film Festival; Teresa Azcona of the Spanish Film Commission; Joanna Gallardo, head of the Ile-de-France Film Commission; …

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LEBANON SYRIA / The Refugee Film Project

The Refugee Film Project, financed by the Belgian NGO SB Overseas, gives some 30 young Syrian refugees the chance to learn about film-making. Aged between 9 and 14 they all live in the Chatila camp, south of Beirut. Nearly 10,000 Palestinian refugees live in the camp, which dates back to 1948, and since 2011 there …

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FRANCE / At Cannes, critics give awards to Arab films

On May 21st , the ACC (Arab Cinema Centre) organized their first Critics’ Awards in Cannes, with a jury of critics allocating awards to the best films produced in the Arab world the previous year. 24 Arab, European and American critics, representing 15 countries, chose the 5 award-winners, who each received their trophy at a …

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FRANCE / Arte broadcasts “Alger, la Mecque des révolutionnaires”

  This new documentary about the accumulation of foreign revolutionary movements in Algiers between 1962 and 1974 will be broadcast on May 16th on the Franco-German channel Arte. Directed by Mohamed Ben Slama, “Alger, la Mecque des révolutionnaires” reveals “a defining episode in international history, unknown to the general public”, in the words of the …

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GREECE / The Greek Film Centre will support 26 film projects

The Greek Film Centre has announced it will help finance an additional three film projects from the applications received between May 1st and July 31st 2016. A total of 26 film projects were chosen for the third and final aid package of 2016. Two of the additional projects selected for 2016 will be included in …

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ISRAEL / Focus on Hadas Ben Aroya’s film People That Are Not Me

People That Are Not Me, Hadas Ben Aroya’s first feature film, shines on the international stage. Having been selected at festivals in Locarno, Haifa and Créteil, it has just won the Talents Award at Barcelona’s 2017 D’A Festival. People That Are Not Me is about a young woman, Joy, who cannot forget her former partner. …

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CYPRUS / Rosemarie wins first prize at the Cyprus Film Days

“Cyprus Film Days” is the country’s most important film event. The 15th session took place from April 27th to May 6th in Limassol and Nicosia. For the first time since the festival’s creation a Cypriot film won first prize. Adonis Florides’ Rosemarie received the “Glocal Images” Best Film Award in the international competition. The film …

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