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FRANCE / Rendezvous in Marseilles for the 10th La Première Fois

Festival la première fois

La Première Fois, a festival of first documentaries, celebrates its 10th anniversary in Marseilles from February 26th to March 3rd. Organized by Les films du gabian, this festival seeks out films by documentary makers with a personal point of view, while encouraging young film-makers to come and exchange ideas. Non-competitive, it presents an international selection …

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FRANCE / 8th nouv.o.monde, the film festival of Rousset – Pays d’Aix

Festival nouv.o.monde

Nouv.o.monde will take place from March 8th to 17th in three towns in southern France: Rousset, Trets and Aix-en-Provence. Organized by Films du Delta, this 8th edition is a place for cinematographic creation. Presenting emerging directors and major film-makers, nouv.o.monde sees its role as helping audiences discover films which are “spectacular or intimate, but which …

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FRANCE / The Romanian film “Cadoul de Craciun” wins the Grand Prix at the Clermont festival

Cadoul de Craciun

The 41st Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival closed on February 9th with the award-giving ceremony in the town’s Maison de la Culture. For 9 days some 160,000 spectators, including 3,500 professionals, watched short films from around the world in a dozen locations in Clermont-Ferrand. The festival was organized around three competitions: international, national and the …

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FRANCE / Martigues – the new Hollywood. Thanks to Provence Studios

Provence studios

For the past four years, one film has followed one another at Provence Studios. In 2018 this film studio on an industrial estate in Martigues, 40 km from Marseille, hosted 104 films. Almost ten times more than four years ago, when Olivier Marchetti initiated the project in dis-used warehouses on a 22-hectare site. With an …

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FRANCE / 5th Ciné Palestine Festival

Ciné Palestine

The 5th Ciné Palestine festival will be held from March 10th to 19th in Toulouse and 8 other towns in the Occitanie Region. Through a selection of 24 feature films, shorts and documentaries visitors will discover the vitality of Palestinian film-making. The festivities will begin with a concert to celebrate the festival’s five years’ existence. …

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FRANCE / Call for films for the 23rd PriMed

logoprimed

PriMed – the International Awards for Mediterranean Documentaries and Reportages has launched its call for films for the 23rd edition. PriMed is open to all independent film-makers, directors, producers and broadcasters who, through their programmes or films, help to create a better understanding of the countries of the Mediterranean region in its broadest sense, from …

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FRANCE ITALY / Mediawan buys Palomar

Mediawan

On January 15th the French media group Mediawan announced it had purchased a majority shareholding in Palomar, an independent Italian production company. Created in late 2015 by Pierre-Antoine Capton, Xavier Niel and Matthieu Pigasse, Mediawan defines itself as an independent platform for audiovisual content. It already owns several media and production companies, including the AB …

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