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Spain / The Cine por Mujeres festival is back for the 5th time

Cine por Mujeres

Created in 2018, this festival purely for women directors Cine Por Mujeres (Films by Women) returns for a 5th year in Madrid from October 25th to November 6th. The role of women in film-making has long been underrated: it wasn’t until 2010 that a woman won the Oscar for Best Director – Kathryn Bigelow; in …

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Spain / La Mostra de València increases the value of its awards and creates a new one

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The 37th Mostra de València del Mediterrani will take place from October 20th to 30th 2022. In a recent press release the festival announced its awards are evolving and detailed some changes to them in this year’s event. The Palme d’or, the festival’s highest award, will be increased from €25,000 to €30,000. There is also …

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Spain / Golden Bear for Spanish director Carla Simón

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After last year’s virtual edition, the 72nd Berlin Film Festival was once again a physical event. This year 18 feature films were in the official competition. The jury, chaired by American director Night Shyamalan, awarded the Golden Bear for Best Film to Spanish film-maker Carla Simón for Alcarràs. Alcarràs takes us to the heart of …

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PORTUGAL / «918 Gau» wins the International Competition of the 19th DocsLisboa

918 Gau

After its world premiere during the DocsLisboa festival, Arantza Santesteban’s “918 Gau” (918 Nights) won the event’s most prestigious award: the City of Lisbon Award for Best Film in International Competition. 10 years after her release from prison, the Spanish director has recreated the circumstances of her arrest in a first person narrative: “On October …

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SPAIN / €15 million agreed by the Ministry of Culture and Sport

Ministère de la Culture espagnol

The Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sport has announced €15 million to support the production of feature films. 47 of the 319 projects submitted have been selected, 27 of them are international co-productions, 9 with a Spanish majority. Half were chosen because they have a “special cinematographic, cultural or social value” and will share €11.8 …

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SPAIN / Ahmed Attia Prize for the Dialogue of Cultures 2021

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The jury including Adeline Le Dantec, Patricia Hubinet, Reda Ben Jalloun, and Mohamed Charbagi, met on October 8th to award the “Ahmed Attia Prize for the Dialogue of Cultures 2021”, sponsored by the Center National du Cinéma et de l’Image Tunisien (CNCI), to a film that called on MEDIMED in its production process. “For its …

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SPAIN / Project call for the 22nd MEDIMED

MEDIMED 2021

MEDIMED, the annual get-together for Euro-Mediterranean documentary co-productions,  will be held in Sitges, a town in the south-west of Barcelona, from October 4th to 8th  2021. Now in its 22nd year, MEDIMED wants to encourage dialogue between television professionals and independent producers while promoting new projects and recent productions. MEDIMED is organized by the Association de producteurs indépendants de la …

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