The 34th Istanbul Film Festival, organized by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IFCA), will take place from April 4th to 19th. The aim is “to encourage the development of Turkish films, helping them achieve international recognition, and to encourage quality films in the Turkish market.” The two-week event will screen 204 films from …
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TURKEY / 13th International Filmmor: festival of women’s film
The 13th women’s film festival, Filmmor, focusing on the theme “Women’s Cinema, Women’s Resistance, Cinema of Resistance”, will be held from March 13th to April 27th. Around sixty films from 25 countries, all made by women, will be screened in six major towns: Istanbul from March 13th to 22nd; Nevşehir on March 28th and 29th; …
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FRANCE ISRAEL / Partnership between TF1, Ryan Seacrest Productions and Armoza Formats for a TV game
The American production company Ryan Seacrest Productions, the French TF1 and the Israeli Armoza Formats have partnered to develop a new TV game “Babushka”. It will be presented at MIPTV, the international television exhibition, in Cannes from April 13th to 16th. The game is based on Russian dolls. Candidates face ten of them. Each doll …
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ISRAEL / i24News: Paul Amar starts work
The journalist Paul Amar, formerly news-reader on France2 and host of two France5 magazines “Revu et corrigé” and “19h Paul Amar”, comes to i24news, an international news channel broadcast in French, English and Arabic, launched by Patrick Drahi. Amar will spend a few months working on the organization and editorial aspects as well as the …
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TURKEY / RTÜK warns channel TV2 about using the word “God” instead of “Allah”
The Turkish Broadcasting Council (RTÜK) issued a formal warning to a television channel which used the word “God” instead of “Allah” in its translation of the French series “Vous les femmes”, reports the Hürriyet Daily News. According to the newspaper, RTÜK, criticized the dubbing of the episode shown on TV2 on January 28th, saying it …
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TURKEY / Construction of the first Turkish cultural centre bringing together archive films and a cinema museum
The opening of the first Turkish cultural centre housing films from the archives and a cinema museum is scheduled for 2017. The project was initiated by Turkey’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism. It will consist of a film library, a cinema museum, a film laboratory, workshops and exhibition spaces, a room for major receptions and …
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TURKEY / Turkey partial member of Creative Europe
Non-member countries of the European Union can, in certain circumstances, participate in the European Commission’s Creative Europe programme, to provide support for their culture and broadcasting sectors. Turkey has become a partial member of this programme, joining Iceland, Norway, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro which all benefit from the programme. “Candidates from Turkey will …
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