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The Goya Awards Ceremony for Spanish and Latin American films was held in Madrid on Saturday, February 4th. The award for Best Feature Film went to Tarde para la ira (The Wrath of a Patient Man) by Raúl Arévalo. A thriller in which a man takes revenge for a crime, eight years after it has …
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Jihad Abdo, or the story of a Syrian actor who fled his country and made a new life in Los Angeles. The name of Jihad Abdo may not mean much for non-Arabic speakers yet, this 54-year-old Syrian is a very famous actor across the whole Arab world, with more than 40 feature films to his …
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The IFFR (International Film Festival of Rotterdam) was held between January 25th and February 5th – this year’s edition being the 46th. The festival shows drama films, creative documentaries and other visual arts. There are also retrospectives, even though the emphasis is on discovering and recognising new talent. The films are in 4 different categories, …
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The Observatoire Marocain de l’Image et des Médias is organizing its fourth “Cap Spartel Film Festival” from April 5th to 8th in Tangier. The theme will be “Film and Borders”. Indeed the festival’s aim this year is to show that “there is not only exile across geographical borders, but also across our own frontiers”. For …
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Charlotte Ricco and Elodie Sylvain have created a documentary series about women creating street art and, more broadly, art in public places. The series will be called “[P] Ose ta bombe” – “[Put down], Be bold with your spray-can of paint / bomb”. Everyone agrees that street art has made a niche for itself in …
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On December 10th, during the Dubai Film Festival, it was confirmed an Arab Film Institute will be created to promote Arab films. The project was launched by Lebanese producer Paul Badoudjian, who explained the idea had been germinating “for 10 months”. The aim is for the new Institute (AFI) to be both a platform where …
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In early December the Romanian government approved an amendment to a new law which will change the way the country’s film industry operates. Every section of the law proposed by Corina Suteu, Romania’s Minister of Culture, has been ratified except the one on allocating new resources for the Film Finance Fund. One of the main …
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