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TURKEY WORLD / Focus on MUBI

MUBI is a video-on-demand platform created 10 years ago by a young Turkish entrepreneur, Efe Çakarel. For €5.99 per month the platform makes available 30 films by well-known, unknown or forgotten film-makers – usually independent. Every day one film is added and another deleted. The target audience are cinephiles and connoisseurs. Among the films this …

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EUROPE LEBANON / 12th edition of the Samir Kassir Award

The call for applications of the Samir Kassir Award for Press Freedom has just been launched. Created in 2006 by the European Union, this award commemorates a Lebanese journalist and writer assassinated in 2005. The Award goes to journalists who report and uncover violations, violence, injustice, corruption or mismanagement, often at the risk of their …

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THE NETHERLANDS / Focus on the International Film Festival of Rotterdam

The IFFR (International Film Festival of Rotterdam) was held between January 25th and February 5th – this year’s edition being the 46th. The festival shows drama films, creative documentaries and other visual arts. There are also retrospectives, even though the emphasis is on discovering and recognising new talent. The films are in 4 different categories, …

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FRANCE / The winners of the 38th Cinemed

The jury of the 38th Cinemed, which ended on October 29th, awarded the Golden Antigone to the Spanish “Vivir y otras ficcionnes”. The five jurors, Laetitia Casta, Maud Ameline, Loubna Abidar, Farid Bentoumi and Yann Gonzalez were clearly won over by Jo Sol’s film. Made in Barcelona, “Vivir y otras ficcionnes” is about the friendship …

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ITALY / Call for submissions for the 8th Middle East Now Festival

The 8th film and cultural festival focussing on the Middle East will take place in Florence from April 4th to 9th 2017. The organizers of Middle East Now, a cultural association called Map of Creation, have opened their call for submissions, with a deadline on February 7th 2017. The festival is open to dramas, documentaries …

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MEDITERRANEAN / Mediterranean candidates for the 2017 Oscars

With registration for the 2017 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film now closed, most Mediterranean countries have submitted a film to represent them. Only films released in their country between October 1st 2015 and September 30th 2016 are eligible. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will make a first short-list by the end …

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ARAB WORLD / Final days to register for the Greenhouse programme

There is now less than a month to respond to the candidate call for the 2016/2017 Greenhouse programme, organized by the Greenhouse Film Centre. The Greenhouse programme is for young film-makers from Middle Eastern and North African countries who wish to develop a documentary film project. Since its creation 10 years ago it has become …

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