The winners of the 7th TRT Documentary Awards were announced during a ceremony on May 11th. 348 documentaries from 42 countries participated in the competition this year. In the international category, Alexander Nanau’s Romanian film “Toto and his sister” won the Best Documentary Award – having already won the Golden Eye at the Zurich Film …
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TURKEY / Cancellation of the official competitions at the Istanbul Film Festival
On Monday April 13th the committee of the 34th Istanbul Film Festival announced the cancellation of the official national and international competitions, the national documentary competition and the festival’s closing ceremony. All this after several film-makers had withdrawn their films as protest to the last-minute ban of a Turkish documentary “Bakur” (The North), made by …
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TURKEY / 34th Istanbul Film Festival
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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