Category: WESTERN EUROPE

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

Italy / Marco Bellocchio shooting his new film, “La Conversione”

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A few weeks after presenting his series Esterno Notte at the Cannes Film Festival, Marco Bellocchio has begun shooting a new film, La Conversione. At 82 the Italian film-maker is working on his 25th feature. For this project, he was inspired by the true story of Edgardo Morara a young Jewish boy who, in 1858, …

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France – the Arab World / Registration for the Cinemed and Aflamuna professional meetings now open

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In a new initiative, Cinemed and Aflamuna / Beirut DC are launching an industry gathering based around independent Arab cinema. The event will take place in Montpellier on October 25th and 26th during Cinemed. Selected film-makers will be able to present their projects to French and international backers and producers, with registration open here until …

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Europe / “Survivors”, a series co-produced by RAI, France Télévisions and ZDF

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The first images of Sopravvissuti (Survivors) have been unveiled. This series of twelve 50-minute episodes is one of the projects to come out of Alliance, a partnership between three European public television companies RAI (Italy), France Télévisions and ZDF (Germany). By creating Alliance, these three European public channels hope “to offer viewers more ambitious, high-quality …

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Spain / The Panoramica catalogue champions independent Spanish cinema

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Presented at the last Cannes Film Festival’s Market-Place, the Panoramica online hub is aimed at international cinema programmers. It presents a catalogue of carefully selected emerging Spanish films. There are more than twenty such films on their website. The initiative is led by PLAY Acció Cultural, “a not-for-profit cultural entity, whose main activity is to …

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Italy / Creation of a new fund for international co-productions

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After the Sicilian Region’s recent announcement to open an audiovisual fund, it is now the turn of the Roma Lazio Film Commission to create a €10 million fund for foreign film productions. Starting this year, it is planned to continue until 2027. Over this period €70 million will be given out. The fund wants to …

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Italy / New hope for showing films in cinemas

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With the arrival of streaming platforms like Netflix, Amazon Prime and Disney +, cinemas in Italy and many other countries face stiff competition. The growing number of alternatives gives audiences greater choice. In France for example a mechanism has been created to protect the theatrical exploitation of films. It gives cinemas priority for the films …

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PriMed 2022 / Discover the official selection the 26th edition

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The list of films selected for the 26th PriMed – the Festival of the Mediterranean in images – is now available. No less than 22 films, located in nearly 13 countries of the Mediterranean basin, have been chosen in the different categories. This year Annick Cojean (author and senior journalist on Le Monde) will do …

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