News about audiovisual in western Europe region (France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Malta, etc)
The board of the French Directors’ Guild (Société des réalisateurs de films) has announced its current artistic director, Paolo Moretti, is leaving. This will be an opportunity to “rethink in depth the Directors’ Fortnight, its name, its unique qualities, its strategic and militant place.” In office since 2018, Paolo Moretti is preparing his last festival, …
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The Venice Film Festival is organizing the 3rd “Classici fuori Mostra” (Permanent Festival of Restored Films). 14 international classic films, each carefully restored by the world’s finest film institutions, will be screened every Thursday from February 10th to May 26th 2022 at Venice’s Cinema Rossini. This year’s festival is organized in partnership with the City …
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PriMed, the International Festival of Mediterranean Documentary and Reportage is launching film registrations for the 26th edition. Directors can register their documentaries for free, directly online on the festival website www.primed.tv.The deadline to send the works is April 15, 2022. The PriMed – International Documentary and Mediterranean Reportage Award is open to all authors, directors, …
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In concomitance with FIPADOC, the Biarritz International Documentary Festival, TV5Monde is offering a special selection of French-language documentaries. To be seen on the free TV5MONDEplus platform. TV5MONDEplus is the international French-speaking video-on-demand platform. Accessible anywhere in the world, this content offer is exclusively in French with subtitles and aims to vocation the promotion of French-language …
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“Occhiali neri” (Dark Glasses) is the latest feature from Italian artist Dario Argento, a pioneer of giallo (lit. yellow) an Italian narrative and cinematographic genre blending sexuality, murder and fantasy. Argento hadn’t made a film since 2012 and the box-office failure of “Dracula 3D”. Salvatore Argento, pioneer of “giallo” Son of the famous Italian producer …
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“Petite Nature” by French director Samuel Theis won the Golden Alexander, the most prestigious award at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival. The film’s lead actor, Aliona Reinert, won Best Actor Award. The young actor plays Johnny, an intelligent, sensitive ten-year-old whose difficult family life in a council estate in eastern France is turned upside down …
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After its world premiere during the DocsLisboa festival, Arantza Santesteban’s “918 Gau” (918 Nights) won the event’s most prestigious award: the City of Lisbon Award for Best Film in International Competition. 10 years after her release from prison, the Spanish director has recreated the circumstances of her arrest in a first person narrative: “On October …
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