News about audiovisual in western Europe region (France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Malta, etc)
Last December actress/director Sonia Méndez shot As Neves (As Snow), her first feature. The film is set in a remote village in Galicia as a group of teenagers are celebrating carnival. During the party, a pornographic video featuring one of the girls, Paula, is shared. Shattered, Paula runs off and disappears without a trace. While …
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Each year the MedFilm Festival, Rome’s oldest international film festival, invites audiences to discover the Mediterranean’s many cultures in a programme of drama and documentary films. The 28th edition was held from November 3rd to 13th. During the closing ceremony, the different juries rewarded this year’s best films. Among the works in the Official Competition, …
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The 22nd Brussels festival for Mediterranean films, Cinemamed, will be held from December 2nd to 10th. On the opening evening there will be a screening of Maryam Touzani’s Le Bleu du Caftan. Created in 1989, this festival highlights films rarely seen in Belgium, providing “a space for dialogue and exchange between North and South, between …
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The 5th Festival of Films by Women was held in Madrid from October 25th to November 6th. There were screenings in 22 venues across the city, as well as online and on television, in partnership with 8madrid TV. This year focussing on the Netherlands, the programme had 10 sections, including the National and the International …
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Director Laura Luchetti has finished shooting her third feature, Bella Estate. Produced by Kino Produzioni, Rai Cinema, Lucky Red and 9.99 Films, the film is an adaptation of Cesare Pavese’s novel of the same name. The Piedmont novelist, who died in 1950, is still one of Italy’s best selling authors. His novels have been adapted …
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MIA, the Mercato Internazionale Audiovisio, was held in Rome from October 11th to 15th. Every year this international event hosts meetings for industry professionals, giving them the opportunity to get together and discuss independent film co-productions and other issues around audiovisual production. During one of these discussions the European Alliance announced its new projects. The …
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Focussing on Mediterranean cinema, this year’s Valencia Film Festival launched its first international co-production forum, Valencia Film Afers. Taking place on October 22nd and 23rd, in parallel with the main festival, Afers was created to encourage investments and secure international co-productions. For its launch the organisers chose 10 projects from Europe and the Middle East. …
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