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” 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
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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ITALY / Candidate call for the Gianandrea Mutti Award for immigrant film-makers or Italian directors born abroad
The Gianandrea Mutti Award, the national competition for migrant or foreign-born directors, is calling for applications for its 13th edition. Created in 2008, the award was the result of a collaboration between the Associazione Amici di Giana, the Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna, the Archivio Memorie Migranti (AMM) and the Fondazione Pianoterra Onlus. The Gianandrea Mutti Award, the national competition for migrant …
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BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA / “Hejt Sloveni”: the video against hate speech seen by several million viewers
Published by Buka, a Bosnian online magazine, “Hejt Sloveni” is a video made as part of an awareness campaign inviting reflection about the hate speech current in ex-Yugoslavia’s social media. The pun is subtle: Hejt (hatred) is similar to Hej, as in “Hej Sloveni” (Hey Slavs) – the title of the Bosnian national anthem. The video shows a Bosnian …
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SERBIA / “Porodica”, controversial new drama series about the arrest of Slobodan Milošević
A new five-part drama series, broadcast by the Serbian national television RTS, has split the country. Based on archive images and documents, “Porodica” (The Family) shows the controversial arrest of Slobodan Milošević, former president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and his extradition to the International Court of Justice at The Hague exactly twenty years …
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CROATIA FRANCE / “All These Sensations in My Belly”, a Croatian short about a transgender person at the Annecy Short Film Festival
The Annecy International Animation Film Festival’s Short Film Competition will feature “All These Sensations in My Belly” by Marko Dješka. Released in 2020, this 13-minute short follows Matia’s transition from male to female and her struggles to establish an intimate relationship with a heterosexual man. A graduate of Zagreb’s Academy of Fine Arts, director Marko …
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