Category: WESTERN EUROPE

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

FRANCE– MOROCCO / Celebration of Moroccan cinema at the Angoulême Festival of French-language Film

Festival du Film Francophone d’Angoulême

The 17th Angoulême Francophone Film Festival (FFA), from August 27th to September 1st, devoted part of its programme to Moroccan cinema. Each year the Festival has a rich programme, combining new productions with older classic francophone films. A competition, previews, a film concert, an open-air screening and many other events enhanced this year’s festival. Placing …

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MEDITERRANEAN / CIRCLE Women Doc Accelerator announces their chosen projects

CIRCLE Women Doc Accelerator

CIRCLE has announced this year’s 10 selected projects for its Women Doc Accelerator programme. CIRCLE is a unique international training programme for directors, producers and non-binaries working in documentaries and drama. Its Doc Accelerator programme, created in 2018, offers training to 10 women with documentary projects. The programme consists of three modules during which the …

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FRANCE – SPAIN / Studio Canal sells the Spanish series “La Promesa”

Studiocanal

Produced by Bambú Producciones, the Spanish series La Promesa (The Vow) has been sold by the Studiocanal group to several TV channels, including C8 (France) and Dubai TV (North Africa and the Middle East). Written by Josep Cister Rubio, Susana Prieto, Ruth García and Carmen Llano, La Promesa is set in Spain at the beginning …

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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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