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NewsGerman-French fund backs Pitts, Sokurov
New films by Rafi Pitts [pictured], Alexander Sokurov, Benoit Jacquot and Volker Schlöndorff are among 12 projects backed by the German-French “Mini-Traité” Co-production Fund in 2013 with a total of over €3m.
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NewsZbanic slams “unjust” treatment of women in cinema
Award-winning director Jasmila Zbanic has echoed Jane Campion’s call to mandate that 50% of all films should be made by women.
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NewsHouse Of Magic secures holiday berth
Belgian 3D specialist nWave Pictures and StudioCanal’s $34m The House Of Magic is to get a Christmas release in France, Belgium, South Korea, Singapore and Italy.
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NewsWolf boy film wins Les Arcs WiP
Serbian film No One’s Child, about a boy raised by wolves, has been named top project at the Les Arcs European Film Festival’s Work-in-Progress screenings.
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NewsGood Films takes Nymphomaniac
Italian distributor Good Films has acquired Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac from TrustNordisk.
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NewsAltitude sells Spooks, Big Game
Multiple deals for Spooks film, Big Game, 47 Metres Down, more.
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NewsThe Price Of Desire wraps
EXCLUSIVE: Principal photography has wrapped on Mary McGuckian’s The Price Of Desire, about modernist designer Eileen Gray.
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NewsHubert Bals Fund reveals 14 projects
Harmony Lessons director Emir Baigazin and Uncle Boomee… director Apichatpong Weerasethakul among those selected by the Hubert Bals Fund of International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) to receive grants for post production and for script and project development.
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NewsNew Europe Coalition planned
A coalition of film professionals from the EU’s new Member States is likely to be one of the results of the Audiovisual Summit in Warsaw this week.
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NewsHot projects on Screenbase
New films on Screenbase this week include Absolutely Anything starring Simon Pegg alongside the reunited Monty Pythons team, as well as a new Ari Folman animation based on Anne Frank’s life and diary.
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NewsHolland: Europe's “mental Iron Curtain”
A “mental Iron Curtain” has formed between Western and Eastern Europe, according to Polish film director Agnieszka Holland.
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NewsBerlin unveils first Generation titles
Stuart Murdoch’s God Help the Girl among 12 films announced for next year’s Berlinale.
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NewsEastwood, Malick, Aronofsky fight Iceland film cuts
As the Icelandic Film Fund is battling proposed government cuts of 40% for 2014, a group of filmmakers has signed a statement of support for the Icelandic industry.
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NewsAri Folman plans Anne Frank animation
Ari Folman, the Israeli director behind Waltz With Bashir and The Congress, is set to script and direct a family driven animation film based on Anne Frank’s life and diary.
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NewsMetrodome acquires Attila Marcel
EXCLUSIVE: UK distributor also secures Big Sur, We Gotta Get Out Of This Place, Almost Human, Enter Nowhere and The Battery.
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NewsGeorge MacKay among Shooting Stars
The star of How I Live Now and For Those In Peril will be feted at the Berlinale alongside stars of Waltz for Monica, Kon-Tiki and Beyond the Hills among others.
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NewsBroken Circle Breakdown wins EU's Lux Prize
Three shortlisted films for the European Parliament prize have been on seven week Europe-wide tour.
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NewsMontana sells to 14 markets
EXCLUSIVE: Salt inks multi-territory deal with eOne for action-thriller starring Lars Mikkelsen and Michelle Fairley.
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NewsRotterdam names first competition films
First five films selected for the Hivos Tiger Awards announced.