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SPAIN MOROCCO / # YOMEQUEDOENCASA by the Casa Africa, the FCAT and Seville University

At the end of March Casa Africa, the Festival de Cinéma Africain de Tarifa (FCAT) and the University of Seville created the # YOMEQUEDOENCASA campaign to encourage people to stay at home during confinement. 40 African films were made available and could be downloaded free. All you needed to view the films was send an …

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SPAIN / A film market at the San Sebastian International Film Festival (SSIFF)

The San Sebastian International Film Festival (SSIFF) will take place from September 18th to 26th. As they prepared for this year’s event the organizers announced they want to introduce a film market into the programme. Like the Zurich Film Festival, the SSIFF wants to create a market which would include films selected for festivals cancelled …

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SPAIN / A virtual cinema created by A Contracorriente Films

Like many countries, Spain is having to live with a period of confinement, which includes closing its cinemas. As a consequence a Spanish distribution and production company, A Contracorriente Films, may be forced to postpone several of its films. To prevent total disruption to its schedules, A Contracorriente Films has decided to preview four of …

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FRANCE / 19th CineHorizontes

This year’s CineHorizontes will be held in Marseille from November 5th to 13th. Since 2001 this Spanish film festival has shown French audiences the wealth and diversity of Iberian cinema. The festival is organized around various events : An official competition with different categories, chaired by a jury of professionals. Several awards are given, including …

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SPAIN / El Hierro voted best European film location

During the European Film Market the Spanish island of El Hierro (one of the Canary Islands) received the EUFCN Location Award for best European location in the film and television industries. The European Film Commissions Network created this award in 2017. To choose the winner, ten locations had been selected by a jury and then …

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FRANCE / Arde Madrid on France.tv

To compete with video-on-demand platforms, the France Télévisions group is starting to schedule big budget series from the rest of Europe. Arde Madrid is an example of this strategy of broadcasting international co-productions. Winner of the Best European Drama award at last year’s La Fiction TV Festival in La Rochelle, this series takes the viewer …

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SPAIN / Agreement between the Academia de las artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España and the Instituto Cervantes

On February 14th the president of the Spanish Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences, Mariano Barroso, and the director of the Cervantes Institute, Luis Garcia Montero, formalized a collaboration agreement to promote Spanish films in the Institute’s branches – which are active in 80 cities in 45 different countries. “The two institutions are following the …

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