Category: EUROMEDITERRANEAN

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ITALY / €40 million to help re-open cinemas

Dario Fransechini

Dario Franceschini, Italian Minister of Culture, has allocated an additional €40 million to the fund supporting the country’s film industry, making a total of over €275 million. The Italian government has supported the film and broadcasting sector – “the country’s main creative industry” – since the start of the pandemic and now is helping the …

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GREECE / “Unfortunately it was paradise” returns from May 30th to June 30th in Athens

Unfortunately it was paradise

“Unfortunately it was paradise” returns to Athens with a rich programme of Greek, Middle Eastern and North African films. The not-for-profit organization Locus Athens and the AIN Association have jointly organized open air and indoor screenings and conferences in Athens’ Tavros district. Launched in September 2020, the project was supposed to be a monthly programme …

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SPAIN / CulturaMadrid, a new broadcasting platform

CulturaMadrid

CulturaMadrid is a new Spanish audiovisual content site already offering more than 100 works to viewers who love dance, cinema, music and the fine arts. Created by the capital’s administration, Comunidad de Madrid, the platform offers free and open access to interviews with artists, reports on the city’s theatres and museums while also giving access each …

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ITALY / Candidate call for the 15th Terra di Tutti Film Festival

Terra di Tutti Festival Film

The 15th Terra di Tutti Film Festival (TTFF) will be held in Bologna and online from October 4th to 10th 2021. The films must have been produced after January 1st 2018. The call for applications is open to short, medium and feature-length films, documentaries, animation, docu-dramas or web series, with no restrictions on the director’s age or nationality. To register, …

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ITALY / Candidate call for the Summer School in Cinema, Human Rights and Advocacy

Global Campus of Human Rights

The 16th Summer School in Cinema, Human Rights and Advocacy is scheduled for August 30th to September 8th 2021. The Global Campus for Human Rights launched the programme in 2005; this year’s theme is “delivering social change to children and young people” within the broader framework of Human Rights protection and promotion. The Summer School in Cinema Human Rights …

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WORLD / 40th International URTI Grand Prix for Author’s Documentary

Grand Prix International du Documentaire d'Auteur URTI

Registration for the 2021 International URTI Grand Prix for Author’s Documentary is officially open. The competition is for public and private television companies, as well as associations and institutions working in broadcasting. Each organisation can register two documentaries free of charge; international television channels then select which films will enter the competition. The international jury …

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ITALY / “Zero”, the Netflix drama series about immigration, in the top 10

Zero

“Zero”, an eight-part Italian series released on April 21st, rose straight to Netflix’s Top 10. Taken from the novel “Non ho mai avuto la mia età” (I have never been my age) by Antonio Dikele Distefano, an Italian writer of Angolan origin, the series goes beyond the themes of friendship, adolescence and love, managing to …

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