The organisers of the 18th Cyprus Film Days International Festival had created a new event for this year: the Industry Days Dot.on.the.map. Planned to take place from April 3rd to 11th, the main festival had to be postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic. However, the Industry Days were maintained and happened online from April 9th …
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2018/2019 saw the most important excavations in Pompeii for the past 70 years, part of an Italian initiative, Great Pompeii Project. The dig uncovered a street, several houses and about fifteen victims. The information pieced together with DNA analysis of the bodies enabled the archaeologists not only to understand more about the people they had …
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Although the 22nd Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival was postponed (originally scheduled from March 5th to 15th), some of its activities, such as the development forum Agora, took place anyway. The Agora Doc Market took place entirely online and so various film projects have received financial support, among them several Mediterranean projects: The Italian film A …
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Organised by the Observatoire marocain de l’image et des médias, the 7th Cap Spartel Film Festival will run from March 18th to 21st. This year, “Cinema and human rights” will be the topic discussed at Tangier’s Rif Cinematheque. Each year the Cap Spartel Film Festival focusses on a country and its films. This year Czech …
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Syrian director Feras Fayyad was nominated for an Academy Award this year in the Best Documentary Film category for The Cave. In 2018 he was nominated in the same category for Last Men in Aleppo,following volunteer rescue teams in the heart of Aleppo after five years of war. The background of The Cave is the …
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Kaouther Ben Hania, Tunisian director of Le Challat de Tunis (2013), Zaineb n’aime pas la neige (2016) and La Belle et la Meute (2017) is preparing a new feature film, L’Homme qui a vendu sa peau (The Man Who Sold His Skin). His crew travelled between locations in Tunisia, Belgium and the south of France. …
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The Israeli series Kvodo by Shlomo Moshiah and Ron Ninio, was aired on television in 2017. The series is about “the life and brilliant career of a judge, Micha Alkoby, [which] was turned upside down the day his son was found guilty of a hit-and-run offence involving a member of the mafia.” Federation Entertainment and …
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