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CYPRUS / 16th Cyprus Film Days Festival

cyprus film days

The 16th Cyprus Film Days, co-organized by the Cultural Services of the Ministry of Education and Culture and the Rialto Cinema, took place from April 19th to 28th in Limassol and Nicosia. The festival shows current films from around the world through three main categories: The International Competition – “Glocal Images” – highlights the sensibilities …

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CYPRUS / Rosemarie wins first prize at the Cyprus Film Days

“Cyprus Film Days” is the country’s most important film event. The 15th session took place from April 27th to May 6th in Limassol and Nicosia. For the first time since the festival’s creation a Cypriot film won first prize. Adonis Florides’ Rosemarie received the “Glocal Images” Best Film Award in the international competition. The film …

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CYPRUS / Support for 23 Cypriot film projects

The Cypriot Ministry of Education and Culture has unveiled which film projects will receive funding in 2016-2017. Answerable to the Ministry, the 9-member Cinema Advisory Committee has decided to fund 23 projects: 9 as part of a writing programme for shorts and feature films, 14 in a programme to help short film production. The funding …

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GREECE / The Thessaloniki Documentary Festival’s AGORA announces its selected projects

Festival documentaire de Thessalonique AGORA

AGORA, the professional section of the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival, has announced the projects selected for the Pitching Forum and for AGORA Docs in Progress. Held in parallel with the festival, from March 8th to 16th, AGORA encourages collaboration, innovation and cultural exchange. It impacts nearly 500 industry professionals each year. Twelve projects from 11 …

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MALTA / 1st Mediterrane Film Festival in Malta

Mediterrane Film Festival

The Malta Film Commission has announced the Mediterrane Film Festival, a new event which will be held from June 25th to 30th in Valletta and on the various islands of the archipelago. The event’s website says the aim “is to strengthen Malta’s position in the global film market while promoting cultural exchange and cooperation between …

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NORTH MACEDONIA / OneTwoThree Media buys the rights of “Snow White Dies in the End”

Snow White Dies in the End

After a preview at the Slamdance Film Festival (Utah), the international rights to Kristijan Risteski’s feature Snow White Dies in the End have been acquired by the American company OneTwoThree Media. Co-produced by Vertigo Visual (North Macedonia) and Caretta Films (Cyprus), this satirical, absurdist film is set in Skopje. It’s about seven people on the …

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ISRAEL / The Israeli government wants to make the country more attractive for making films

Avigdor Lieberman

Israeli Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman announced a budget of €12 million to make his country more attractive for film-making. For international television and film productions this sum should reduce the cost of hiring film crews by 25%. The offer is valid for two years. There is only one condition: the production must employ a local …

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