News about audiovisual in western Europe region (France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Malta, etc)
The French Minister of Culture, Rima Abdul-Malak, together with the Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur Region, the City of Marseille and the Aix-Marseille-Provence Metropolis have signed a memorandum of understanding on cinema and the film industry. This agreement is part of Marseille en grand, a three-year plan announced by President Macron in September 2021: “We are going to create …
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The International Film Festival of Rotterdam (IFFR), from January 25th to February 5th, is premiering 4 Croatian productions. Two experimental films, Igor Grubić’s Ingresso Animali Vivi and Boris Poljak’s Horror Vacui, are in the Short and Mid-length category. Igor Grubić’s film looks at the towns of northeastern Italy, where animals from Eastern Europe are brought …
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At the end of December the Spanish government presented a bill aimed at consolidating the country’s audiovisual sector. Its key clauses focus on giving priority to independent productions when allocating subsidies. The Ministry of Culture’s press release says the government also intends to pay “particular attention to true equality between men and women by using …
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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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