Category: WESTERN EUROPE

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

FRANCE / New releases on Amazon Prime Video

Following the new additions to the Netflix catalogue, it’s now Amazon Prime Video’s turn to expand its offer. This month six films by Agnès Varda will be available online: Cléo de 5 à 7 (1962), L’une chante, l’autre pas (1977), Le Bonheur (1965), Les Cent et Une nuits de Simon Cinéma (1995), La pointe courte …

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ITALY / From the Sidelines, a sports documentary

From the Sidelines is a 2019 documentary directed by Simona Cocozza and made during the 30th World University Games in Naples, a multi-sport event organized every two years in a different city to celebrate international university sport and culture. For two weeks the Neapolitan director captured the relationship between coaches and athletes, the tensions, the …

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SPAIN / Los sin nombre adapted as a TV series

Released in 1999, Los sin nombre (The Nameless) was the first feature by Spanish director Jaume Balagueró, helping him become one of the main pillars of the Spanish movement of genre authors. The script was based on a novel by British horror scriptwriter Ramsey Campbell. The central character is Claudia: “Five years after her daughter’s …

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FRANCE / Netflix expands its catalogue

Since April 24th Netflix has been expanding its catalogue by putting new films online. Thanks to a partnership signed with the French distributor MK2, nearly 50 films will eventually be available on the platform. First, twelve films by François Truffaut, including: Les 400 coups (1959), Tirez sur le pianiste (1960), Jules and Jim (1962), and …

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SPAIN / RAMPA ’s repertory put online

On April 15th the Spanish Festival de Cine por Mujeres (festival of films made by women) officially launched its new project, RAMPA, an interactive, open and free directory filled with information, contacts and the geographic locations of women working in every area of the audiovisual industry. RAMPA is a response to various remarks that there …

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FRANCE / Special lockdown programming of PriMed

At this time when a large part of the Mediterranean population is confined, the CMCA, organiser of the PriMed, wants to (re) discover some of the films chosen for the 2018 and 2019 festivals. Many directors have agreed to put their films online, free of charge, on the PriMed Facebook page. From April 28th to …

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ITALY / Italian Screenings on the internet

Italian Screenings is an annual market entirely for Italian productions. Organised by the Luce-Cinecittà Institute, the 17th edition has been confirmed from July 21st to 24th, with screenings taking place online thanks to the Festival Scope platform. Recent Italian productions will be presented to an audience of buyers from all over the world. The organisers …

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