On April 14th Thierry Frémaux, director of the Cannes Film Festival, announced the official selection of films for the 75th festival, scheduled for May 17th – 28th. This year 21 films are in the running for the Palme d’Or. Among the directors, the Romanian Cristian Mungiu, who has already won several awards at Cannes. In …
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On April 8th the Lebanese Ministry of Information, the French Embassy in Beirut, the management of Télé-Liban and France’s Institut national de l’audiovisuel (INA) signed a cooperation agreement to preserve the Lebanese broadcasting archives. This partnership, called “Safeguarding, digitizing and enhancing media heritage”, is part of a solidarity fund for innovative projects. Financed to the …
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The Institut national de l’audiovisuel (INA) has produced a series of podcasts about the Algerian war: La guerre d’Algérie racontée par les femmes (The Algerian war as told by women). Directed by doctoral student Denis Leroux and produced by the Make Some Noise Studio, the series consists of six 40-minute interviews in which women from …
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The Finnish Tampere Film Festival, specifically for international short films, was held from March 8th to 12th. The international jury awarded the Grand Prix to Granny’s Sexual Life, a Franco-Slovenian short animated documentary. Directors Urška Djukic and Émilie Pigeard were given the “Kiss” statuette and €5,000. The film opens with four elderly women reflecting on …
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Kosovar director Blerta Basholli’s first feature, Hive, will be released in France on June 1st. It has won many awards at major international festivals, including three at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival (Audience Award, Jury Award and Best Director). Shown the same year at Montpellier’s Cinemed, the film won the Antigone d’Or. It is also …
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The first Cine Donne Festival (Women’s Film Festival) will take place in Bastia (Corsica) from April 6th to 10th. This new event, initiated by the Communauté d’Agglomération de Bastia and organized by the Arte Mare association, is specifically for the work of international women directors. Like the International Women’s Film Festival in Créteil or Marseille’s …
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At the end of February Tarak Ben Ammar, the Tunisian head of Eagle Pictures France, bought the Studios de Paris. Ben Ammar got into the film business in the mid-1970’s and has since developed many international projects as a producer. At the end of February 2022 the EuropaCorp group announced in a press release that …
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