French-Algerian director Nina Khada ’s new film “Je me suis mordue la langue” (I bit my tongue) won the Silver Poulain for Short Documentary at the 27th Pan-African Film and Television Festival (Fespaco) in Ouagadougou. “I bit my tongue”, a quest for identity In this 25-minute first-person documentary the film-maker tries to rediscover the language …
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Europe’s oldest documentary event, the Festival dei Popoli, will run in Florence from November 20th to 28th. This year, in addition to the two competitions – international (18 documentaries not yet shown in Italy) and Italian (7 premiers) – the festival is hosting the first Italian retrospective of the films of French directors Nicolas Klotz …
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The MBC group, the largest media company in the Middle East and North Africa, has added a French interface to its streaming platform Shahid. Already accessible in English and Arabic, the site offers exclusive films and Arabic television channels, including satellite ones broadcast on MBC. There are two options available: Shahid.net, a free offer with …
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AL24 News, North Africa’s first international channel Available on Nilesat, AL24 News is Algeria’s new 24-hour public news channel. Broadcasting internationally since November 1st, it is North Africa’s first international channel. Based in Algiers, AL24 News comments on national but above all international news through reports, documentaries, talk shows, broadcasts and interviews, including three daily “major …
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The 62nd Thessaloniki International Film Festival (TIFF) will be held from November 4th to 14th 2021, both face-to-face and online at online.filmfestival.gr. The only international and competitive Greek festival, TIFF selects mainly first and second feature films, focusing on auteur cinema. This year 197 films will be shown in Thessaloniki’s mythical screening venues: the Olympion, …
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“Awake” (Kljun), a police drama from Serbia mixes “thriller and fantasy”. The series centres on a young, ambitious detective, Sonja Kljun, assigned to the town of Subotica to investigate an alleged suicide. Her investigation reveals several disturbing secrets, then takes an even stranger turn when her own daughter has premonitory dreams. Directed by Uros Tomic …
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A series of fifteen short films, “Beirut 6:07” traces the story of the double explosion in Beirut’s port on August 4th 2020, causing several hundred deaths, injuring thousands, and destroying several entire districts of the city. The production employed 15 Lebanese directors, a team of 100 and 5 post-production units. Among the 15 directors were …
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