Category: WESTERN EUROPE

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

ITALY / Screening the documentary “Le Tunnel, le secret du siège de Sarajevo” at the Italian Festival “C’è un tempo per l’integrazione”.

The Short Film Festival “C’è un tempo per…l’integrazione” will take place in May, split between the towns of Sarnico and Bergamo (northern Italy). As well as the usual short film programme, the festival is also organizing various events (screenings, exhibitions) to mark the 25th anniversary of the start of the war in former Yugoslavia. As …

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FRANCE / New production agreements with France Télévisions

On March 31st France Télévisions signed a series of funding agreements with organizations representing film producers for animation films, documentaries and live entertainment. Each agreement defines the remit of the films in that category, the annual increase of investment, the minimum distribution in each category and other provisions specific to each genre. For example, the …

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FRANCE SERBIA / Inauguration of the Acid Trip at Cannes

For the first time the Association du Cinéma Indépendant pour sa Diffusion (ACID) will organize three screenings at the Cannes Film Festival. These screenings, called collectively the ACID Trip, will be on May 19th, 20th and 21st. The idea is to give a free hand to a foreign independent film body for three screenings. The …

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PORTUGAL / Easing of taxes for productions in Portugal

A new system of tax relief has come into force in Portugal, intended for film productions with budgets of one million euros or more. Domestic productions, official co-productions and foreign productions (foreign executive productions) can all take advantage of this tax-rebate. Depending on the size of the production, the rebate will be between 20% and …

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ITALY USA / HBO and Rai launch an adaptation of an Elena Ferrante novel

HBO and Rai have announced they are co-producing an eight-episode series adapted from Elena Ferrante’s four-volume “My Brilliant Friend”. These four books, about two young women born in post-war Naples, were originally published between 2011 and 2014 and are still being translated into a dozen languages. They have already been a huge success in France, …

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SPAIN MOROCCO / 14th Festival of African Cinema

This year’s Festival of African Film will be held in Tarifa from April 28th to May 6th and in Tangier from April 30th to May 5th. This is the second of these cross-border events. It will run simultaneously in Tarifa (Spain) and Tangier (Morocco), two cities separated by 14 kilometres of sea. For Mane Cisneros, …

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FRANCE / Launch of Provence Azur

  In May the Bouches-du-Rhône department will once again have a privately-run local TV channel, Provence Azur. It will be available on channel 30 of DTT, previously used by TV Sud Provence and before that by LCM. After a call for applications to replace TV Sud Provence, the CSA chose Provence Azur last June. Two …

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