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European Solidarity Fund for Ukrainian Films launched The EFAD, the film agencies and the ministries of culture of 13 countries, including the Flemish Audiovisual Fund, today launched the European Solidarity Fund for Ukrainian films during the 73rd edition of the Berlinale.

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Fourth batch of Ket & Doc films at JEF festival and Ketnet Five new children's documentaries from Ket & Doc will premiere at the JEF festival during the spring break. After the screenings on February 18 and 19, the Ket & Doc titles can be viewed from February 20 on Ketnet, VRT MAX, Ketnet.be and in the app.

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Books: Quentin on Tarantino Quentin Over Tarantino is presented as a biography in comic form, but it turns out to be much more than that. Biographical scenes, anecdotes and experience tips are interspersed in various styles by the French cartoonist Amazing Améziane.

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The hijacking of the Pompeii invited to Cinequest The three-part documentary series The Hijacking of the Pompeii has been selected for the Cinequest Film & Creativity Festival, a leading American festival that takes place annually in San Jose, the capital of Silicon Valley.

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Film festival Ostend experiences record edition with 48,000 visitors The first full winter edition of the Ostend Film Festival (FFO) was a record edition with more than 48,000 visitors. The organizers report that. For nine days, Ostend was the epicenter of film, series and everything related to it.

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Close reigns supreme at the Ensors This weekend saw the unspooling of the 13th edition of the Ensor Awards, rewarding Flemish audiovisual creation in Belgium. It's an unmissable event for sector professionals which shines a light on creativity within the worlds of cinema and TV.

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Jafar Panahi 'temporarily' released The Iranian regime shrugs its shoulders about international sanctions, but an imprisoned Golden Lion winner who threatens to die due to a hunger strike does have an impact. Jafar Panahi was suddenly released.

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Belgian directors El Arbi and Fallah remove film from selection at Iranian film festival Belgian directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah have officially withdrawn their film Rebel from the selection of the Iranian film festival Fajr. The filmmakers make this known in a statement on Instagram.

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Ursula Meier and Jaco Van Dormael to take center stage at the Bergamo Film Meeting The exploration of contemporary European cinema which is at the heart of the 41st Bergamo Film Meeting event (running 11 – 19 March) will revolve around the work of French-Swiss director Ursula Meier and Belgian filmmaker Jaco Van Dormael, whose entire back catalogs are set to be presented in the Europe, Now! section of the festival.

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Love Is Not An Orange invited to MoMA Otilia Babara's documentary Love Is Not An Orange is invited to Documentary Fortnight (Feb 22-March 7), the international festival for non-fiction and hybrid films of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.

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"Nayola" opens on February 17 Anima film festival This year's Anima international animation film festival will kick off in Brussels on February 17 with "Nayola", by director José Miguel Ribeiro. The festival organization announced this at a press conference.

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Close also nominated for Césars After the Oscar nomination for Close was announced yesterday, Lukas Dhont's film has now also been nominated for the Césars, France's national film awards. Dhont's feature debut Girl was also nominated for a César in 2019.

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