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Grand Prize for Katrien Vermeire's Der Kreislauf in Rhode Island The short documentary film Der Kreislauf by Katrien Vermeire has been awarded the Grand Prize of the KidsEye International Film Festival, organized within the margins of the Flickers: Rhode Island International Film Festival (5-10 August).

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SUPERNOVA first Dutch film on Vimeo on Demand Tamar van den Dop's feature film SUPERNOVA will be the first Dutch feature film to be made available directly on demand via VOD platform Vimeo. Via Vimeo on Demand, the Dutch audience can watch the film directly online, without special hardware or players.

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Montreal World Film Festival is once again playing the Flemish card Hans Herbots' treatment has been selected for the Montreal World Film Festival (August 21 - September 1). The action thriller will have its international premiere there.

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Dutch-Belgian thriller to Toronto The Belgian-Dutch thriller Welp by director Jonas Govaerts has been selected for the Toronto International Film Festival TIFF. Welp will have its world premiere there in the program part Midnight Madness. The festival takes place from September 4 to 14.

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Monic Hendrickx in Belgian tragicomedy Dutch actress Monic Hendrickx will play one of the leading roles in the Belgian tragicomedy Café Derby. Café Derby is the feature debut of the Flemish talent Lenny Van Wesemael, who previously worked as a casting director and made a number of short films.

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Kinepolis takes over all Wolff cinemas The Belgian cinema company Kinepolis has long harbored the desire to expand northwards. The construction drawings for a megaplex have now been approved and are ready to be executed. The total number of theaters is 46.

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Leonardo Van Dijls Get Ripped awarded Grand Jury Prize at Outfest LA The short film Get Ripped by the young Flemish director Leonardo Van Dijl was awarded the Grand Jury Prize for Best Experimental short film during the closing ceremony of the Outfest in Los Angeles (10-20 July).

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Netflix available in Belgium from September Netflix will launch in Belgium in September. Until now we knew it would start 'in the autumn'. The video service will therefore start in five other European countries (Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium and Luxembourg).

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New incentive measure supports the first 34 film projects 34 film projects will receive an incentive from the budget of the new Film Production Incentive in the Netherlands (Netherlands Film Production Incentive) for a total amount of 8.5 million euros.

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Amazon tests 'Netflix for ebooks' Amazon is working on a 'Netflix for e-books' called Kindle Unlimited, which will allow users to read unlimited e-books for $9.99 per month. Amazon is the largest provider of e-books.

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Things are not going well for digital cinema supplier Barco Barco once again severely disappoints investors. The market leader in digital cinema warns of a decline in its turnover and profit. The publication of the half-year extras is scheduled for July 23. This is in addition to the first quarter, which was also disappointing.

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Waiting for August Beste Documentaire in Karlovy Vary Teodora Ana Mihai's feature-length documentary Waiting for August won the Prize for Best Documentary last night at the 49th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Czech Republic, July 4-12).

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