The list of films selected for the 26th PriMed – the Festival of the Mediterranean in images – is now available. No less than 22 films, located in nearly 13 countries of the Mediterranean basin, have been chosen in the different categories. This year Annick Cojean (author and senior journalist on Le Monde) will do …
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Ahmed Benaïssa, well-known both in theatre and the film world, died during the Cannes Film Festival. He was 78. He had been invited to Cannes for his work in Clément Cogitore’s film Goutte d’Or (Sons of Ramses) in which he played the character of Younes. The film is set in the multicultural district of Paris …
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Bulgarian director Pavel G Vesnakov’s second film is entering post-production. Entitled Windless (working title), it is produced by the Bulgarian company Red Carpet and co-produced by the Italian company, Disparate. With a budget of approximately €560,000, it received €225,000 from the Bulgarian National Film Centre. It also received support from the Italian Ministry of Culture …
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Screenwriter and director Ivan Marinović has begun shooting his second feature film, Forever Hold Your Peace. Filming takes place in Herceg Novi, a town on the Luštica peninsula where his previous feature, The Black Pin, was also shot. The central character (played by Croatian actress Tihana Lazović) is a woman who, two days before her …
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Created in 2007 and organized by Romanian Film Promotion (APFR) and the Film and Urban Culture Association (AFCU), the Gopo Awards Gala celebrates the previous year’s national films. It was held on May 3rd at Bucharest’s I. L. Caragiale National Theatre. This year 19 films shown in Romanian cinemas or on video-on-demand were selected in …
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Eleven films, all distributed by the Egyptian company MAD Solutions, were shown at the 12th Malmö Arab Film Festival (MAFF) in Sweden from May 4th to 9th. MAFF is the largest European festival dedicated to films from the Arab world. Each year the event attracts professionals as well as film-buffs. This year it presented 56 …
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The Commission d’Aide à la Production des œuvres cinématographiques, chaired by Ghita El Khayat, has announced which films will receive an advance on box office takings. Taking all categories together – features, documentaries and shorts – the Commission considered nearly 80 films in its first session of 2022. Among them 5 features, 6 documentaries and …
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