The Medfilm Festival, focussing on films from the Mediterranean basin, opened on November 9th at Rome’s Savoy cinema. For its 24th year, 79 films from 34 countries were screened in three locations in the Italian capital: the Savoy cinema, Macro – the Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma – and the Nuovo Cinema Aquila. Many film-makers, …
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Croatian director Nebojša Slijepčević continues to win awards for his documentary Srbenka. Last spring, he made his mark at two prestigious festivals: the Cannes Film Festival, where he won the Doc Alliance Selection Award, and Visions du réel, winning the Buyens-Chagoll Award. In August the Sarajevo Film Festival recognised the quality of his work, awarding …
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HBO American Pay TV channel, which produces many series, is making a co-production with RAI and Wildside – an adaptation of a novel by Elena Ferrante about two young Neapolitans in the 1950’s. It will be the first series produced by HBO in a language other than English. It is directed by the Italian Saverio …
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The Mediterranean Young People’s Award is based on the desire of high school students from all around the Mediterranean to meet, share their ideas, debate and vote together for a films that they have previously discovered and watched in the classroom. A large space of Euro-Mediterranean citizenship is being built, in which more than a …
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The fourth Valletta Film Festival, organized by the Film Grain Foundation, will take place from June 8th to 17th. More than 50 international films will be screened, including 20 in the official competition, which is divided into three categories: feature films, documentaries and short films. On the sidelines of the competition there will be screenings …
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The 71st Cannes Film Festival took place from May 8th to 19th. Mediterranean directors won awards not only in the main competition, but also in the parallel competitions. Main section In the main competition, Lebanese director Nadine Labaki won the jury prize with her third feature, “Capharnaüm”. Requiring three years research, Labaki’s film is both …
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At the “Series Mania” festival in Lille, France Télévisions, Rai and ZDF announced they are creating a pan-European broadcasting group, Alliance, which will offer viewers high budget drama series. For Delphine Ernotte, chair of France Televisions, Europe must “take advantage of [its] strengths, [its] diversity and [its] incredible cultural wealth” to compete with large groups …
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