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FRANCE PALESTINE / 3rd Ciné-Palestine festival

From June 2nd to 11th the Ciné-Palestine festival will be running in Paris, Saint-Denis and Aubervilliers. The festival’s aim is to show the creativity and diversity of Palestinian cinema. This year’s programming is influenced by the 50th anniversary of the occupation which followed the Six-Day War in 1967, focussing on “shared views about 1967”. There …

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ISRAEL PALESTINE / “In Between”, a first film by Maysaloun Hamoud

“In Between”, Palestinian director Maysaloun Hamoud’s first feature film, was released in French cinemas in mid-April. Although the film has been praised by international critics and won awards at several festivals (Haifa, San Sebastian, Toronto), this has not prevented the 35-year-old Palestinian film-maker, born in Budapest and raised in Dir-Hana, Israel, from receiving death threats …

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FRANCE PALESTINE / Documentary looking for crowd-funding

Abdelhatif Belhaj and Lolita Bourdet are appealing for crowd-funding to finance the post-production of their documentary “La pêche et l’olive”, filmed in Seine-Saint-Denis and Palestine. The film follows nine teenagers living in a district of Montreuil (a “difficult” suburb of Paris), who go to the village of Beit Sira, near Ramallah in Palestine as part …

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MIDDLE EAST / Project for a film about urban planning and identity

Two Frenchmen living in Marseille, Youri Cayron, an artist and Romain Rivalan, production manager and cameraman, are currently finishing “Ask The Birds”, a feature film shot in Israel and the West Bank. Editing is now complete and a crowd-funding campaign has been launched to find finance for the post-production. During two trips in 2014 and …

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PALESTINE / Eutelsat pulls the plug on Hamas’ channel

According to Reuters, on March 12th the European company Eutelsat stopped transmitting the Palestinian channel Al Aqsa TV, after a telephone conversation the previous day between the French President, François Hollande and the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu . The channel was nevertheless back on air shortly afterwards on other networks, including the Egyptian Nilesat. …

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TUNISIA / Exchanges between Palestinian and Tunisian television

On November 20th Télévision Tunisienne’s new interim managing director, Rached Younes, had talks in Tunis with the Palestinian Minister for the supervision of the media and the press, Riadh Al Hassen. The two sides agreed to sign a framework cooperation agreement focussing on the exchange of news reports between both country’s televisions. The Minister stressed …

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