Category: WESTERN EUROPE

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

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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MALTA / The Mediterranean Film Festival returns

Festival du Film Méditerranéen

The Mediterranean Film Festival returns to Malta for its 2nd year from June 22nd to 30th with the theme: Unity through film. Malta’s Film Commissioner, Johann Grech, explains the Festival’s importance: “In a time of unprecedented instability and division in the world, the Mediterranean Film Festival has a very special role to play in promoting, …

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FRANCE – MOROCCO / Signing a film co-production agreement between France and Morocco

Royal Film Commission

On May 18th, during the 77th Cannes Film Festival, a co-production agreement was signed by Rachida DATI, the French Culture Minister and Mohamed Mehdi BENSAID, the Moroccan Minister of Youth, Culture and Communication. The agreement replaces one signed in 1977 and will offer producers in both countries “a modernized framework, in keeping with contemporary production …

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ROMANIA / Emanuel Pârvu’s “Three kilometres to the End of the World” at Cannes

Trois kilomètres jusqu'à la fin du monde

Soon after it announced its Official Selection, the Cannes Film Festival added some new films to the list. Among them is the third feature by director and actor Emanuel Pârvu, Three Kilometres to the End of the World. Co-scripted by Pârvu and Miruna Berescu, the film is about 17-year-old Adi, who comes from a remote …

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