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The Mains à l’œuvre association is opening its doors to four writer-directors for a seven-week residency to create a collaborative documentary on the theme “Guardian of the Mediterranean.” The residency will be at Villa Rocabella (near Toulon) from November 3rd to December 20th. Accommodation, meals, and a travel grant are provided. Registration is open to …
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In a recent report, PROFILM, an association of production companies, revealed a 33.6% drop in foreign film investment in Spain in 2024. The reason for this decline? Spain has apparently become less competitive than its European neighbours. The report, summarised by Cineuropa, shows that investment fell from €197.4 million in 2023 to €129.9 million in …
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A government council has appointed Mohamed Reda Benjelloun Director of the CCM (Centre Cinématographique Marocain). Maroc Hebdo says people were expecting this appointment because “since 2021 the position has been occupied on an interim basis by the Secretary General of the Communications Department, Abdelaziz El Bouzdaini. The CCM’s last Director General was Sarim Fassi Fihri.” …
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The 36th Fameck Arab Film Festival will be held in north-eastern France from October 2nd to 12th.This year the main focus is on Lebanon, with the organisers wanting to “shine a spotlight on creative Lebanese films, reflecting a changing society, combining poetry, resistance and a search for identity.” More than 15 films – fiction, documentaries …
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The GREC is launching its call for applications for the Short Film Screenplay workshop-residency, which will be held in Porto-Vecchio, Corsica. Registration is open until July 25th. Organised in partnership with the Cinémathèque de Corse and with the support of FEAC (a fund for artistic & cultural exchanges in French overseas territories) and the Collectivité …
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Since June 2nd Arte has been broadcasting the Franco-Algerian series El’Sardines on its platform. Directed by poet Zoulikha Tahar, this six-episode, 11-minute miniseries is set in Oran. Six days before her younger sister’s wedding, Zouzou, a 30-year-old celibate marine biologist, cannot bring herself to tell her family that she is leaving the day after the …
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Moroccan director Zhor Fassi-Fihri has begun filming her new feature film, L’Homme des Signes. Co-written with Jérôme Cohen-Olivar, this dramatised biography retraces the life of Mehdi Qotbi (born 1951), a painter and the president of the National Museum Foundation. The film-makers chose to combine real and fictional elements to tell his story. Filming will take …
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