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Serbia / Five films win awards at the Beldocs in Progress

Beldocs

Based in Belgrade, Beldocs is one of the largest documentary film festivals in the Balkans. The event celebrates creative documentaries through a wide range of screenings and professional meetings, in particular Beldocs Industry, a category which includes Beldocs in Progress, where directors present their projects to professionals – and a jury. This year the jury …

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Croatia / The ZagrebDox festival begins in April

ZagrebDox

After two challenging years, the International Documentary Film Festival ZagrebDox will run this year from April 3rd to 10th. Moved several times, for its 18th edition the event returns to Kaptol Boutique Cinema. Organized with the support of the City of Zagreb and the Audiovisual Centre of Croatia, ZagrebDox is a festival of contemporary documentary …

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EGYPT / Serbian director Emir Kusturica chair of the jury of the Cairo International Film Festival

Emir Kusturica

Serbian director Emir Kusturica is the chair of the jury of the 43rd Cairo International Film Festival running from November 26th to December 5th. The jury will decide the winners among the 13 films entered in the International Competition, which includes 8 European productions or co-productions. In all 98 films from 63 countries will be …

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CROATIA / “NDH”, HRT’s first documentary series about the Ustaše government

HRT

Since September the Croatian public radio and television company HRT has been broadcasting “NDH”, the first documentary series about the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) which was governed by the Ustaše during World War II. A subject which, 45 years after the end of the war, remains extremely sensitive. NDH and the Ustaše Created after the …

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CROATIA / “Cinema under Siege” voted best documentary project at the Sunny Side of the Doc

Cinema Under Siege

The documentary “Cinema under Siege” won the Best Project Award in the Talent Hub Central & Eastern Europe section at the 2021 Sunny Side of the Doc co-production market. The film by Srđan Šarenac is about a group of artists in 1993 determined to organize the first Sarajevo Film Festival despite the siege of Sarajevo. …

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GREECE / “Unfortunately it was paradise” returns from May 30th to June 30th in Athens

Unfortunately it was paradise

“Unfortunately it was paradise” returns to Athens with a rich programme of Greek, Middle Eastern and North African films. The not-for-profit organization Locus Athens and the AIN Association have jointly organized open air and indoor screenings and conferences in Athens’ Tavros district. Launched in September 2020, the project was supposed to be a monthly programme …

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TURKEY / TRT celebrates its 57th anniversary

TRT

The Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) has celebrated its 57th anniversary. Created on May 1st 1964, at first as a state broadcaster, TRT today has 17 television channels, 16 radio stations, two websites (trt.net.tr and trtvotworld.com – which is translated into 41 languages and local dialects, including TRT World and TRT Deutsch) and five print newspapers. Broadcast across Turkey …

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