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The Thessaloniki Documentary Festival's Agora announces this year's winners The 25th edition of Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival's Agora has announced its winners.

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Wonder Dynamics puts a full-service CG character studio in a web platform Wonder Dynamics has developed a web platform that allows filmmakers to add realistic CG characters to their films as if they were professionally shot and edited.

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'No Dogs or Italians Allowed,' 'Knor,' 'I'm Still Alive' Win Cartoon Movie Prizes At the 25th edition of Cartoon Movie in Bordeaux, the prizes were awarded to the best animated films and distributors of the year. The French distributor KMBO was named distributor of the year.

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Non-English Titles Surge 90% on Netflix UK as 'All Quiet on the Western Front' Tops Charts The popularity of non-English language content on Netflix in the UK has increased by 90% in the past three years, according to new data from the streaming service.

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Czech film incentives run dry again as the country becomes a hot destination for international shoots The film industry in the Czech Republic is increasingly attracting international productions, including major Hollywood films and streaming services. This has led to a high demand for film incentives, which has already exhausted the 2023 budget.

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Bergamo to become the capital of European cinema in March The 41st Bergamo Film Meeting (11 – 19 March) will offer up two competitions for new authors of European feature films and documentaries, as well as the two-day-long Film Industry Meetings

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Nicolas Philibert's On the Adamant bags the Berlinale's Golden Bear The 73rd Berlinale (16-26 February) was brought to a close tonight by the traditional awards ceremony at the Berlinale Palast, which saw the triumph of Nicolas Philibert's documentary On the Adamant [+] (France/Japan), the winner of this year's golden bear.

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Entrepreneurial creatives and showrunners outline the future of TV at the Berlinale Series Market As the television industry continues to evolve, creatives and showrunners are taking the reins by establishing their own companies.

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Interview with Fiona Tan about her Berlinale project Dearest Fiona, which will premiere in the Forum section of the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival, is presented as the third feature film by visual artist Fiona Tan. At the same time, this is a work made for installations in art galleries.

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Crying cameramen and freezing conditions: How 'All Quiet on the Western Front' was made During war, soldiers look for solace wherever they can find it. In "All Quiet on the Western Front," director Edward Berger's film or Erich Maria Remarque's 1928 World War I novel, that place is the toilet.

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Carlo Chatrian • Artistic director, Berlin International Film Festival Cineuropa talks to the Berlinale's artistic director about the “new beginning” for the gathering, the state of world cinema and iconoclastic programming at the outset of the 73rd edition Chatrian explains why he considers the 2023 iteration to be his true first edition since his arrival after helming the Locarno Film Festival, and he also discusses this year's eclectic line-up and iconoclastic programming.

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In 2020, the average budget of European fiction features was €2.06 million, the latest EAO report finds The European Audiovisual Observatory (EAO) has published a new report titled “Fiction Film Financing in Europe: A Sample Analysis of Films Released in 2020”.

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