Category: WESTERN EUROPE

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

MOROCCO / Morocco at MIFA

Festival Annecy 2024

Morocco was the only Arab country present at the International Animated Film Market (MIFA), part of the 48th Annecy International Festival of Animated Film. The pavilion was run by the Centre Cinématographique Marocain (CCM). CCM’s presence at MIFA gave people working in animation in Morocco the chance to show their film and audiovisual productions and …

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SERBIA / A Serbian film, “Guardians of the Formula”, in French cinemas

L’Affaire Vinča Curie

Dragan Bjelogrlić’s feature film Guardians of the Formula was released in French cinemas on June 5th. Based on Goran Milašinović’s bestselling novel The Case of Vinča, and set in October 1958 during the Cold War, the film is about Yugoslav scientists who were severely irradiated during a secret mission. They were thought to have been …

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SPAIN / Shooting completed on “Me Amiga Eva”

Me Amiga Eva

Director Cesc Gay announced that he finished shooting his new feature, Me Amiga Eva, on May 30th. Co-written by Cesc Gay and Eduard Sola, the film is about 50-year-old Eva, married with two teenagers. During a business trip to Rome she realizes she wants to fall in love again before it’s too late. Back in …

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CROATIA / Two Croatian shorts in competition at Annecy

Festival Annecy 2024

Two Croatian short films, Moral Support and Windows from the South, were chosen to be shown at the recent Annecy International Animated Film Festival. Moral Support, directed by Vuk Jevremovic, had its world premiere in the Short Film competition. Inspired by the music of the Slovenian group Laibach and their song Moral Support, the film …

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FRANCE / Meditalents project call for the 3rd LabSud

MEDITALENTS

Meditalents has launched a project call in preparation for its 3rd LabSud. Applications can be sent until July 31st. LabSud is a residency which supports 6 writers from the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region in France who are working on their first or second feature-length fiction film project. For a week participants are given individual help by …

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JORDAN / The 4th Mosalsalat Screenwriters Lab has finished

Royal Film Commission

Organized by the Royal Film Commission, the 4th Mosalsalat Screenwriters Lab was held from May 24th to 29th in Azraq, Jordan. Launched in 2019, the Mosalsalat Screenwriters Lab offers workshops for script-writers from the Arab world, helping them create television projects by providing a team of specialists to support and advise project leaders as they …

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BULGARIA / The distributor Alpha Violet buys the rights to “Windless”

Alpha Violet

Shortly before its world premiere at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (June 28th – July 6th), the rights to Pavel G. Vesnakov’s feature film Windless were bought by French distributor Alpha Violet. The film follows Kaloyan who, after the death of his father, returns to Bulgaria from Spain to sell the family apartment. Seemingly …

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