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KOSOVO / “Hive” wins three awards at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival

Hive

Blerta Basholli’s first film received the Jury Award, the Best Director Award and the Audience Award in the World Cinema category at this year’s Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah (United States). Her feature film looks at the difficulties facing emancipated women in Kosovo, “pointing the finger at post-war patriarchal society.” Based on a …

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TURKEY KOSOVO / New film co-operation agreement between Turkey and Kosovo

Accord bilatéral Turquie Kosovo

Turkey and Kosovo have formalized cooperation between their film industries. Signed in Ankara, the bilateral agreement should facilitate co-productions of films and TV series over the next five years, allocating financial support of between 20% to 80% to Kosovar-Turkish co-productions.  After the signing, Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, Turkish Minister of Culture and Tourism, praised the historical …

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SERBIA CROATIA / Tensions between Serbia and Croatia: a film about the extermination camp at Jasenovac causes controversy

Dara iz Jasenovac

Serbia’s first film participating in the Oscars, Dara iz Jasenovca (Dara from Jasenovac), has created tension in Serbo-Croat diplomatic relations. Croatia heavily criticises Predrag Antonijević’s film for its portrayal of the Holocaust in the country, accusing it of serving a political agenda. The feature film is set in the Croatian extermination camp of Jasenovac during World War …

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CZECH REPUBLIC / “Caught in the Net”, the documentary about online paedophilia tops Czechia box-office

Caught in the Net

Breaking all box office records in the Czech Republic, “Caught in the Net” by Barbora Chalupová and Vít Klusák is the first documentary to sell more tickets than all other feature-length productions in 2020 – from American blockbusters to domestic Romcoms. When the hunters become the hunted This investigative documentary is described as a “psychosocial …

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EURO-MEDITERRANEAN FILM FESTIVALS AND MARKETS

Dans cette page vous pouvez consulter, en ordre chronologique, le calendrier des festivals et marchés euro-méditerranéens attentifs au développement et à la valorisation du genre documentaire. Un regard spécial sur ceux qui s’occupent en particulier de la promotion du film méditerranéen (même s’ils sont basés loin de la Mare Nostrum). Cliquez sur le mois qui …

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CROATIA / The Last Socialist Artefact, the new series by Dalibor Matanić

Croatian director Dalibor Matanić has begun shooting his new TV series, The Last Socialist Artefact. Based on Robert Perišić’s novel No-Signal Area, the series is produced by the Kinorama company, in co-production with Sense Production, Perfo Production and Citizen Jane. The TV series follows two “urban survivors” from Zagreb, Oleg and Nikola. A mysterious colonel …

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BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA / A Look Back at the AJB DOC

The third AJB DOC closed on September 15th. Specifically for television documentaries, this Sarajevo-based festival is organized by Al Jazeera Balkans. Many documentaries were screened online, among them Molly Stuart’s Objector, selected for the 2020 PriMed in the Mediterranean Issues category. This feature-length film won the main AJB DOC award. Special mention was given to …

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