News about audiovisual in western Europe region (France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Malta, etc)
The Euro-Mediterranean documentary market and pitching forum MEDIMED is launching its call for projects and new documentary productions. The 23rd market will take place in Sitges, Spain from October 13th to 16th 2022. MEDIMED is an international documentary market specializing in promoting and distributing films and new projects from the European Union and Mediterranean countries. …
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On April 14th Thierry Frémaux, director of the Cannes Film Festival, announced the official selection of films for the 75th festival, scheduled for May 17th – 28th. This year 21 films are in the running for the Palme d’Or. Among the directors, the Romanian Cristian Mungiu, who has already won several awards at Cannes. In …
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On April 8th the Lebanese Ministry of Information, the French Embassy in Beirut, the management of Télé-Liban and France’s Institut national de l’audiovisuel (INA) signed a cooperation agreement to preserve the Lebanese broadcasting archives. This partnership, called “Safeguarding, digitizing and enhancing media heritage”, is part of a solidarity fund for innovative projects. Financed to the …
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The Institut national de l’audiovisuel (INA) has produced a series of podcasts about the Algerian war: La guerre d’Algérie racontée par les femmes (The Algerian war as told by women). Directed by doctoral student Denis Leroux and produced by the Make Some Noise Studio, the series consists of six 40-minute interviews in which women from …
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EURODOC is organizing an intensive workshop for developing documentary projects from May 29th to June 4th in Palma, Majorca. Applications can be sent until April 27th 2022. For 20 years EURODOC (International Lab For Creative Documentary Production) has organized training sessions throughout Europe for people developing creative documentary projects. Each session consists of 3 one-week …
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During the closing ceremony of the International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights (FIFDH), the jury awarded the Grand Prix de Genève to Giovanni Buccomino’s After a Revolution. This documentary retraces the journey of a brother and sister divided by the Libyan civil war. She fought for the rebels and he sided with head …
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The Finnish Tampere Film Festival, specifically for international short films, was held from March 8th to 12th. The international jury awarded the Grand Prix to Granny’s Sexual Life, a Franco-Slovenian short animated documentary. Directors Urška Djukic and Émilie Pigeard were given the “Kiss” statuette and €5,000. The film opens with four elderly women reflecting on …
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