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"I am drawn to protagonists who rarely occupy the centre of dominant narratives: underdogs, minorities & individuals living at the margins of power. Documentary cinema allows us to stay close to their/our realities." - Belgian #EmergingProducer Maarten D’Hollander (Krater Films)
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🎬 Shooting begins for Citas, directed by Gemma Ferraté! he feature-length continuation of the series of the same name, created by Paul Freixas, boasts an ensemble cast toplined by Natalia Berbeke, Javier Rey, Susana Abaitua and Oriol Pla, among others.
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📣 The SMART7️⃣ European film festival network announced its 2026 competition line-up.
The joint programme includes one film from each of the SMART7️⃣ countries, including Andreea Borțun's mother-son-story A River’s Gaze & Ugla Hauksdóttir's disaster film The Fires.
Find out more: cineuropa.org/489730

‼️ #EXCLUSIVE Italian director Marco Amenta has begun shooting his new film, Il registro, in Sicily.
Toplined by French actors Reda Kateb & Galatéa Bellugi, the story centres on a man searching for his son who disappeared in the Mediterranean during an attempt to leave Africa.
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Alauda Ruiz de Azúa's drama Sundays scooped 5 Goya Awards, including the trophies for Best Film & Best Director.
The Goya for Best New Director went to Eva Libertad's Deaf, which is also nominated for the LUX Audience Award 2026.
#awards #cinema 🏆
Find out more here: cineuropa.org/489710

❄️📽️ Polarise Nordic Film Nights returns to Brussels for its 5th edition from 4 to 15 March.
On the menu: the Danish-Swedish-Belgian movie Beginnings by Jeanette Nordahl, The Cost of Growth by Thomas Maddens followed by a Q&A, an evening dedicated to Greenlandic cinema & more.
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"Magnani Hüller’s film is deeply courageous and painfully personal, but even more importantly, it unflinchingly accuses not only the system, but society and culture at large..." - Read Vladan Petkovic's #review of the #Berlinale entry Sometimes, I See Them All at a Party
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❕ "People think that during a siege you only focus on food, water & medicine, but we also try to survive mentally & emotionally. We try to preserve our psychological health, not just our bodies." - Filmmaker Abdallah Al-Khatib about his film Chronicles from the Siege
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💬 "A big part of the origin of Lady comes from discovering women like Lady herself, who seem so outwardly aggressive and tough, and from trying to find out what lies beneath that surface and what drives the choices she makes." - Nigerian director Olive Nwosu about her film Lady
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🎬 #Netflix and #EKKOMED launch initiative to train Greek audiovisual creators: The new partnership will allow Greek screenwriters and directors access to Netflix's Digital Training Platform, delivering international courses and masterclasses.
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The 44th Bergamo Film Meeting kicks off on 7 March. On the menu: Films by newcomers such as Abdelkarim El-Fassi & Miha Hočevar; 14 independently produced docs in the Close Up section; as well as the 6th Film Industry Meetings, which will focus on new forms of distribution.
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📣 The European film community, including Cineuropa, has rallied in support of Berlinale director Tricia Tuttle after reports emerged that an extraordinary meeting of the supervisory board of KBB had been convened to discuss the festival's future.
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🎂 Happy anniversary! The Sofia International Film Festival is getting ready for it 30th edition, which will run from 12 to 31 March. The gathering will open with Jafar Panahi's Palme d'Or-winning It Was Just an Accident & Panahi will receive the FIPRESCI Platinum award.
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The 16th Luxembourg City Film Festival will unspool from 5 to 15 March. Key highlights include Markus Schleinzer's opening film Rose; Ulrike Ottinger's gothic vampire mystery The Blood Countess; as well as an exclusive screening of the third season of the #series Quickies.
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Series Mania Forum's Co-Pro Pitching Sessions (24-26 March) have selected 15 projects, chosen from among 450 applications. Project include Aurora.Newsroom., a thriller series about a New Cold War espionage network in the Baltic region, and the German genre comedy Ignition.
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🆕 The 2nd Madrid Forum on Audiovisual Investment took place on 25 February. The event shone a light on new financing models for the audiovisual sector and featured round tables on bank financing, specialised funds and investment vehicles linked to technological transformation.
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The world's first Transmedia Game Jam Accelerator concluded on 26 February in Helsinki. Centering on adaptation-ready IP, it featured masterclasses led by industry experts such as Christian Fonnesbach (Head of IP at Leverage Partnership) & game designer Inari Revonjoki. 🕹️
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The César for Best Film goes to Carine Tardieu's movie The Ties that Bind Us, which Richard Linklater takes home the prize of Best Director for his film Nouvelle Vague. Congratulations to all winners & nominees! 🇫🇷✨
Find the full list of awardees here:
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‼️ #EXCLUSIVE Watch the trailer for the Thessaloniki & CPH:DOX title We Are Stardust by Norway's Elisabeth Rasmussen now on the Cineuropa website. The doc accompanies jazz guitarist & amateur geologist Jon Larsen in his search for micrometeorites in urban environments. 🌠🎸
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Take an #exclusive peak at the poster for Rosario Minervini's #doc Tirrenica now on our website. The film, which will screen at Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival, tells the stories of unique characters living on the margins of the Salerno-Reggio Calabria. 🚐🛣️
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The East Doc Platform returns from 19 to 25 March. Held in cooperation with the One World International Human Rights Film Festival in Prague, this year's edition is themed "Afterimages" and will reflect on the enduring imprint of documentary images. 🎥
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🎬🐣 RECREAS, the first collaborative network of Spanish-language series scriptwriters, is born. The manifesto of Latin American screenwriters, presented by the Spanish copyright organisation DAMA, marks the beginning of a new space for dialogue & cooperation.
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📽️ "Tienimi presente boasts the perfect form for telling a story which seems self-centred, but which is actually sufficiently self-deprecating to never appear complacent, while speaking to a universal form of melancholy." - Read the review of Alberto Palmiero's Tienimi presente #cinema

🎬 Shooting is set to begin on Paola Randi's fourth fiction feature Se domani non torno, a film about the 2023 murder of Giulia Cecchettin by her ex-boyfriend Filippo Turetta. The film is entitled after the poem by young Peruvian activist Cristina Torres Cáceres.
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💬 "Liberations is about a family trying to escape an unseen threat. It’s essentially a survival film. They go from Lithuania to Latvia, then across the Baltic Sea, and then, in the end, they return. Unfortunately, not everyone makes it back." - Filmmaker Laurynas Bareiša about his film Liberations

The 13th edition of the Visegrad Film Forum (11 to 14 March, Bratislava), will welcome filmmakers behind iconic Hollywood productions, such as two-time Academy Award winner Chris Munro & renowned special effects artist Shane Mahan. ✨🎬
Find out more: cineuropa.org/489593

📣 #EXCLUSIVE Filming for 16 mesures, the first feature by Yvan Georges-Dit-Soudril, will begin on 16 March. The cast for the film, which centres on a 19-year-old homeless delinquent & rapper who dreams of a future in music, includes actors Missoum Slimani & Suzanne Jouannet. 🎤
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🌊 "In a world that is so divided, where does the desire to own come from? [...] I would like to imagine a place where people can learn to co-exist: somewhat like being in water, contained but not bounded." - Filmmaker Martika Ramirez Escobar about her work Daughters of the Sea
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🌠 "My acting method is being willing to adapt to any situation I’m in..." - French actor & European Shooting Star Salif Cissé
Watch the interview here: cineuropa.org/489544

👂🎬 In episode 84 of the Cineuropa & Eurimages Co-production Podcast, we invited the producers of Tarik Saleh's Swedish-French-Danish co-production Eagles of the Republic to speak about their collaboration.
Listen to it here: cineuropa.org/489577