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ROMANIA / « Between Revolutions » selected for the 73th Berlin Film Festival

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Vlad Petri’s feature-length documentary Between Revolutions will premiere at the 73rd Berlin Film Festival (February 16th-26th) in the Forum category. Produced by Monica Lăzurean-Gorgan of Activ Docs and co-produced by Oliver Sertic for the Croatian company Restart, Between Revolutions is about two students at Bucharest University in the 1970’s, Zahra and Maria. Zahra, an Iranian, …

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SLOVAKIA / Viera Čakányová presents “Notes from Eremocene”

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Slovak director Viera Čakányová will premiere her new experimental documentary, Notes from Eremocene at the 73rd Berlinale. Entered in the Forum section, which looks at and reflects on the medium of film, Notes from Eremocene takes its title from a concept introduced by biologist Edward O. Wilson in which he calls the next geological era …

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CROATIA / Four Croatian films at the Rotterdam International Film Festival

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The International Film Festival of Rotterdam (IFFR), from January 25th to February 5th, is premiering 4 Croatian productions. Two experimental films, Igor Grubić’s Ingresso Animali Vivi and Boris Poljak’s Horror Vacui, are in the Short and Mid-length category. Igor Grubić’s film looks at the towns of northeastern Italy, where animals from Eastern Europe are brought …

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TUNISIA / Fears that the Moknine cinema will be demolished

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CinéMakna, one of only three cinemas in Moknine, a town in the province of Monastir, seems scheduled for demolition. Having shown films for 50 years, although not continuously, it may now be replaced by a shopping centre. To alert the public, “The Moknine Cinema Association” has issued a press release. Younes Ben Hajria, a film …

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Croatia / ZagrebDox Pro: Dox of War opens its project call

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The call for projects for the next ZagrebDox Pro programme is open until January 31st. Entitled Dox of War, this year’s focus will be on documentaries dealing with war. Through a one-year online mentorship and a five-day workshop (March 27th-31st), ZagrebDox Pro offers film-makers with a documentary project the chance to develop their work with …

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ITALY / Winners of the MedFilm Festival

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Each year the MedFilm Festival, Rome’s oldest international film festival, invites audiences to discover the Mediterranean’s many cultures in a programme of drama and documentary films. The 28th edition was held from November 3rd to 13th. During the closing ceremony, the different juries rewarded this year’s best films. Among the works in the Official Competition, …

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MEDITERRANEAN / Programme of the 22nd Brussels Cinemamed

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The 22nd Brussels festival for Mediterranean films, Cinemamed, will be held from December 2nd to 10th. On the opening evening there will be a screening of Maryam Touzani’s Le Bleu du Caftan. Created in 1989, this festival highlights films rarely seen in Belgium, providing “a space for dialogue and exchange between North and South, between …

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