Category: WESTERN EUROPE

News about audiovisual in western Europe region (France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Malta, etc)

SPAIN / MediMed calls for projects and films

The 16th MEDIMED Doc Pitching Forum & Market will be held from October 9th to 11th in Sitges, Spain. MEDIMED is a professional market for European and southern Mediterranean independent documentary producers, organized by Apimed (Association Internationale des Producteurs Indépendants de la Méditerranée), a CMCA member. A call for projects and for completed documentaries produced …

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FRANCE / Call to participate: 27th URTI International Radio Grand Prix

The Union Radiophonique et Télévisuelle Internationale (URTI), which is organizing the 27th URTI International Grand Prix for Radio, has launched a call for participants on the theme of multiculturalism. The competition was created in 1989 and rewards radio productions from anywhere in the world for their efforts in research and originality. This free competition is …

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BELGIUM / 15th Festival of Mediterranean Cinema

From December 4th to 11th the Belgian capital will host the 15th Mediterranean Film Festival, at the Cultural Centre of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation “Le Botanique”. In 2014, the jury awarded Lyes Salem’s “L’Oranais” (The Man from Oran), Hüseyin Karabey’s “Come to my Voice” and Kaouther Ben Hania’s “The Tunis Challat”. The call for entries for …

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SPAIN / 18th DocsBarcelona

The 18th DocsBarcelona festival was held from May 25th to 31st. 42 films from 26 countries were screened. As every year, the themes chosen and the ways of treating them were many and varied. Reflecting on the economy, “Falciani’s Tax Bomb”, a German-Spanish film from Ben Lewis, opened the festival. Among the very strong characters …

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FRANCE / Festival “Palestine in sight”

“Palestine in sight – First Palestinian Film Festival in the Rhône-Alpes Created by the ERAP Association (Palestine/Rhône-Alpes Exchanges) this first festival of Palestinian film opened in Annecy (France) in May and will travel round ten of the region’s towns from June 3rd to 12th. More than twenty screenings of ten different films are being shown. …

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FRANCE / Release of Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s “Mustang”

“Mustang”, the first feature by Franco-Turkish director Deniz Gamze Ergüven, will be released in France on June 17th. “The beginning of summer. In a village in northern Turkey, Lale and her four sisters play innocently with boys on their way home from school. The supposed debauchery of their games creates a scandal with unexpected consequences. …

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FRANCE / Release of Merzak Allouache’s “Les terrasses”

The latest film by Algerian director Merzak Allouache “Les Terrasses” opened in France on May 6th. The film has won several awards, in particular the Gold Amayas at the Algiers Festival of North African Film and Best Director of the Arab World and the FIPRESCI Award at the Abu Dhabi International Film Festival. “From dawn …

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