News about audiovisual in western Europe region (France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Malta, etc)
The 28th Festival international de programmes audiovisuels (FIPA) was held from January 20th to 25th in Biarritz. This unmissable event for discovering series, dramas, documentaries and current affairs films made for the small screen was marked this year by the signing of a Charter of Professional Practice. Signed on Friday, January 23rd in the presence …
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From January 16th to February 1st the North African nomadic festival “so far so close” came to cinemas in the French départements of Aude and Pyrénées Orientales. Feature films from North Africa and short films from both Mediterranean Africa and Europe were shown. The festival is a shop window for film directors from Southern Europe …
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The 17th Festival of Television Creations at Luchon will take place from February 4th to 8th. Created in 1998, the aim is to promote French broadcast drama by rewarding the best single drama, mini series, short programmes and web-series. This year there will be something new: a documentary category with its own selection committee and …
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The 15th French-language Short Film Festival was held at Vaulx-en-Velin between January 16th and 24th. This year, “a fist is short”, Tunisia was guest of honour with an evening of Tunisian short films, including two dramas: Nadia Toujer’s “Précipice” and Samir Harbaoui’s “Désirs” – plus two documentaries, Abdallah Chamekh’s “Ici et maintenant” and “Femme courage” …
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“Después de Tánger. Marruecos hoy” is an event initiated by the Filmoteca de Cataluña, the Consell Nacional dels Drets Humans (CNDH) and Arte et Dignidad en Acción (ARTEDEA) in partnership with the Moroccan Embassy in Spain and the CCM. Created in the late 90s, “Después de Tánger” is characterized by its freedom, its rejection of …
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The politically committed film-maker René Vautier, died on January 4th 2015 at the age of 86. Born on January 15th 1928 at Camaret-sur-Mer in Brittany, he joined the Resistance in 1943. After the war, he obtained his degree at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC) and joined the French Communist Party. He is known …
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Francesco Rosi, Italian film-maker, author of “Le Mani sulla città” winner of the Golden Lion at the 1963 Venice Film Festival, and “Il caso Mattei” winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1972, died on Saturday, January 10th at the age of 92. Born November 15th 1922 in Naples, he started in the world …
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