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ALGERIA / The 21st Béjaia “Rencontres Cinématographiques” closes

The 21st Béjaïa Film Festival took place from September 26th to October 1st at the local cinematheque. Thirty-two films from 15 countries, including Algeria, France, Tunisia, Egypt and Palestine, were shown during the event. In total, seven feature-length fiction films, six feature-length documentaries and nineteen short films were screened. Among them Hassen Ferhani’s documentary Alea …

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FRANCE / The 16th Marseille Web Fest in preparation

Launched in 2011, the Marseille Web Fest is an international event for short-form digital content and new ways of audiovisual storytelling. The 16th edition will take place from October 15th to 17th. Every year the festival brings together a wide range of creators, producers and distributors to showcase creative work, foster innovation and support the …

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MEDITERRANEAN / “The Taste of the Mediterranean” has launched a collaborative platform

After years highlighting the culinary riches of different regions, TV journalist and presenter Carine Aigon has launched Diète Méditerranéenne, c’est notre Nature !, a project rooted in and dedicated to the Mediterranean life-style. It’s a heritage dating back to antiquity, now encapsulated by Mme. Aigon in the first multilingual collaborative platform entirely dedicated to the …

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BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA / For greater parity, the Sarajevo Film Festival has launched “Sister Sister”

In collaboration with the Sarajevo Film Festival, which ran from August 14th to 21st, Macedonian director Teona Strugar Mitevska has launched a project called “Sister Sister”. Her aim is to draft a collective manifesto on the role of women in the audiovisual industry in all the countries of former Yugoslavia. According to its originator the …

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PALESTINE – ISRAEL / The documentary NAZA shown at the Venice Biennale

Two of the directors behind the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land presented their new film, NAZA, at the Venice Film Festival, which ran from September 2nd to 12th. The film won the Special Jury Prize. Directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, NAZA was shot at night from the rooftops of Tel Aviv. Blending investigative …

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MOROCCO – FRANCE / “Toilettes de filles”, a series shot in Marrakesh and streamed on Instagram

Liik and Fablabchannel have formed a partnership to present a new web-series by Moroccan director Sonia Terrab: Toilettes de filles. Following the success of El’Sardines (Jury Special Mention at Séries Mania and streamed on bothARTE.TV and TV5MONDE+), Fablabchannel joined with Liik to host this new series conceived for the social networks with 7 very short …

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ITALY – TUNISIA / Kaouther Ben Hania joins the international jury of the Venice Film Festival

The organisers of the 83rd Venice Film Festival have invited Tunisian writer/director Kaouther Ben Hania to be one of the six jury members. After studying film at the Sorbonne Nouvelle and La Fémis, Ben Hania directed her first short film, La Brèche, in 2004, alongside several other projects. In 2014 she moved into feature films, …

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