When East Meets West (WEMW), an event dedicated to audiovisual professionals, will run within the framework of the Trieste Film Festival, from January 19th to 22nd. The WEMW Co-production Forum has announced the 21 projects chosen from over 500 international projects received. This year’s selection includes 10 creative documentaries, 9 feature films and 2 animated …
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FRANCE / Fipadoc celebrates documentary creativity in the Balkans
This year’s Fipadoc, which runs from January 24th to February 1st, will devote its Territorial Focus to the Balkans, with 22 documentaries. Among the first titles announced, Maja Novaković’s At the Door of the House Who Will Come Knocking? (Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina) takes us to the heart of Bosnia where an elderly and solitary man, Emin, …
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TUNISIA / Afreximbank and Mediwood Studios sign an agreement to expand
Mediwood, a Tunisian film studio, and Afreximbank, an African export-import bank, have signed a $3 million facility agreement. The agreement will allow Mediwood Studios to develop its facilities and make Tunisia an attractive hub for film production. As Kanayo Awani, Vice-President of Afreximbank, explains: “By improving Tunisia’s film-making infrastructure, we hope to attract international productions, …
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MEDITERRANEAN / CINEMED announces its winners
To a Land Unknown by Palestinian director Mahdi Fleifel won the Golden Antigone at the 46th Cinemed, the Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival. First shown during the Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, the film follows two Palestinian refugees, Chatila and Reda, who are stuck in Athens. Desperately they try to make enough money to buy false passports, …
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TURKEY – GREECE / The winners of the 8th Beyond Borders Festival were screened at the Istanbul Sinematek.
Between October 18th and 20th the Istanbul Sinematek organised open-air screenings to show-case the award-winning films of the 8th Beyond Borders Festival During the three days 12 international documentaries were shown, with the event opened by one of them, Penelope McDonald’s feature Audrey Napanangka. David Deri’s A Tale of Four Minorities was also screened. The …
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FRANCE / Meditalents welcomes the film-makers for the LabSud residence
Meditalents has published the names of the projects and their creators selected for the LabSud residency which ran from November 3rd to 7th. Every year since 2017 Meditalents has sponsored 4 to 6 projects for first or second feature-length drama films being developed by film-makers and screenwriters living in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region. For one …
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PriMed 2024 / Discover the official selection the 28th edition
The selection of films for the 28th PriMed – International Festival of Mediterranean Documentary and Reportage – is now available! PriMed returns to Marseilles this year from 30 November to 7 December with 23 documentaries an reports. With 12 films making their French premieres, the festival has established itself as a leading event devoted entirely …
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