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Balkans / New laws to control streaming platforms in Romania and Croatia

Union Européenne

Croatia and Romania have announced they are applying new measures to tax streaming platforms broadcasting in their countries. As members of the European Union, both countries apply the EU’s Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMS Directive). Created in 2010, this directive was revised in 2018 to reflect the changes in the media landscape. The AVMS Directive …

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Romania / Celebration of Romanian cinema at the Gopo Awards Gala

Prix Gopo

Created in 2007 and organized by Romanian Film Promotion (APFR) and the Film and Urban Culture Association (AFCU), the Gopo Awards Gala celebrates the previous year’s national films. It was held on May 3rd at Bucharest’s I. L. Caragiale National Theatre. This year 19 films shown in Romanian cinemas or on video-on-demand were selected in …

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Romania / Liviu Marghidan completes the post-production of his new feature film

Pietra Craiului

Romanian director Liviu Marghidan is finishing post-production on his third feature, Refuge. The film, co-written with Alexandra Posa, takes us into the heart of a broken family. After their parents’ divorce, the brother and sister are separated. The girl lives with her mother in France and the boy in Romania with his father. Every year …

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ROMANIA / Romanian director Radu Jude won the Berlinale’s Golden Bear

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn

Romanian director Radu Jude won the Golden Bear at the 2021 Berlinale for “Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn”. The 71st Berlinale took place online between March 1st to 5th, reduced from its usual eleven days to just five. “A vitriolic portrait of contemporary society, from the military to the religious, not forgetting the nouveau riche and …

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ROMANIA / Collective put forward for the 2021 Oscars

Alexander Nanau’s Collective has been chosen to represent Romania at the Oscars – the first time Romania has chosen a documentary to represent it in the Best International Feature Film category. The film shows the investigation into corruption after a fire in a night-club killed 64 people. Shot during the twelve months after the fire, …

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ROMANIA / Beginning of the second part of the Astra Film Festival

The Astra Film Festival is Romania’s oldest documentary film festival. This year the organisers decided to split the event in two. 40 films were screened in Sibiu from September 4th to 13th. The second part of the festival began on October 16th with 41 films available online until October 25th. AFF Online will also host …

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EUROPE / Éducation à l’image with the EFF

The European Film Factory (EFF) is a film education platform. Their website, accessible on all digital devices, is for students aged 11 to 18 and for all European teachers. Since August 26th educational guides in German, English, Spanish, French, Greek, Italian, Polish and even Romanian have been put online so that Internet users can discover …

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