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Sarajevo Film Festival has selected new feature projects from Hilal Baydarov and David Kapac among the first titles for its Co-Production Market.

Eight projects will participate in the CineLink Workshop from June 16-20, while one -The Flowering of a Chimera - is inthe CineLink Co-Production Market from August 16-21. The programme includes script development support through consultations and expert-led sessions.

Azeri filmmaker Baydarov will present Stone Over Stone, in which a young couple living and working on a decaying construction site struggle to secure a hopeful future for their unborn child. Written by Baydarov and Georg Tiller, the film is produced by Maeva Ranaivojaona,...

Africa filmmaking agency Realness Institute has selected 15 participants for the 4th edition of the Creative Producer Indaba (Cpi), a training scheme for advancing the work of independent producers both from and working with the African continent.

Participants for the latest Cpi run include South Africa’s Ephraim Gordon, who produced Amy Jephta’s Barakat, South Africa’s submission to the international feature award at the 2022 Oscars. Gordon produces through Nagvlug Films, and has also directed for TV series including comedy Taktiek.

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Also selected from South Africa is Vanessa Sinden, senior producer at Triggerfish Animation,...

All genres are welcome at Locarno’s co-development initiative Alliance 4 Development this year, from “dramas to dark comedies and thrillers,” says project manager Francesca Palleschi. But 11 projects from Austria, France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland do share some recurring themes.

“Identity, history’s enduring legacy, environmental concerns, family ties, the sense of belonging and displacement, societal dynamics. And the desperate search for attention,” Palleschi list.

In “I’m Not Here to Make Friends” by Julia Niemann, who recently enjoyed arthouse success with controversial Sundance premiere “Veni Vidi Vici” co-directed with Daniel Hoesl, she’s following Emmy, a contestant on a dating reality show. The film will be shot in English.

“Reality TV may be the lowest of all forms of entertainment. But when it’s done well, it tells of nothing less than the human condition, just like the movies. It’s a film about what we all want: Attention. Why...

Dok Leipzig will run as a hybrid event from October 26-November 1.

Germany’s Dok Leipzig film festival has unveiled the line-up for its 2020 edition, which will run as a hybrid event from October 26-November 1.

World premieres in the International competition include Children, from Israeli veteran Ada Ushpiz and Shelly Silver’s Girls/Museum.

The new Camera Lucida section, showcasing five unconventional films not in competition, includes the world premiere of Lamentations Of Judas from award-winning Dutch director Boris Gerrets, who died earlier this year.

This year’s hybrid event will include cinema screenings for the Leipzig audience, with a large...

Each FIDMarseille 2020 movie came with a video introduction from the filmmakers, who were given seemingly complete freedom in deciding how, and at what length, to approach this; eschewing the standard-issue speech-to-webcam, Zaho Zay’s had to be the best one. In a living room, a woman (presumably co-director Maéva Ranaïvojaona) paces along to an audio clip from Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie? of Jean-Marie Straub ranting about the indissolubility of form and ideology. “Form, form, your infamous form,” he snarls, the woman roughly lip-syncing to a rant she seems to have heard and contemplated many times before. This intro is […]...

Each FIDMarseille 2020 movie came with a video introduction from the filmmakers, who were given seemingly complete freedom in deciding how, and at what length, to approach this; eschewing the standard-issue speech-to-webcam, Zaho Zay’s had to be the best one. In a living room, a woman (presumably co-director Maéva Ranaïvojaona) paces along to an audio clip from Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie? of Jean-Marie Straub ranting about the indissolubility of form and ideology. “Form, form, your infamous form,” he snarls, the woman roughly lip-syncing to a rant she seems to have heard and contemplated many times before. This intro is […]...

Full list of winners revealed.

Carolina Moscoso’s Night Shot has won the Grand Prix at the Marseille International Film Festival (FIDMarseille).

The Chilean film marks Moscoco’s debut feature and uses text, candid footage, animation and sound design to confront her past trauma: a violent rape that occurred eight years previously when she was a film student. It was produced by Santiago-based El Espino Films.

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The feature received its international premiere at the festival that ran from July 22-26 in southern France. It was the first physical film event of its kind...