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Antigua & Barbuda |
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– Howard Allen’s The Sweetest Mango, the country’s first feature-length film, is released. Produced by Allen’s HAMA Productions, the film stars Jermilla Kirwan and Omar Mathurin. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Cambodia |
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– Fay Sam Ang’s The Snake King’s Child, a Thai Khmer co-production, is released. It is the first fictional feature made in Cambodia since the seventies. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Canada |
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26/7 - |
Zacharias Kunuk’s Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, reportedly the first feature film made in the Inuktitut (Canadian Eskimo) language, is shown at the Melbourne International Film Festival. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Croatia |
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– The government announces that, as part of new tax reforms, cinema tickets, books and film production will be tax exempt. [MORE] [ADD] |
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- The Hrvatska Državni zavod za statistiku (Croatian Bureau of Statistics) reveal that Croatian films account for only 4.6% of cinema screenings. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Gabon |
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Debut director Imunga Ivanga's Dôlé (aka L'Argent) is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Germany |
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27/12 - |
The country celebrates the 100th anniversary of Marlene Dietrich's birth with museum exhibits, TV documentaries, film retrospectives – and a formal apology from the city of Berlin for its treatment of the actress as a traitor during World War II. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Hardy Martins’ So weit die Füße tragen (As Far As My Feet Will Carry Me) is released. Based on a true story, it tells the tale of Clemens Forell (Bernhard Bettermann), a German soldier in WWII who was captured by the Russians and sentenced to 25 years in a Siberian labour camp. When Forell escapes, he embarks on a desperate three-year journey back to his family with the camp’s commander (Anatoli Kotenyov) in pursuit. [MORE] |
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Japan |
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27/7 - |
Hayao Miyazaki's animated feature Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (Spirited Away) is released. It tells the story of a young girl trapped in an abandoned amusement park that is a resort for spirits, who must find a way to escape before she forgets her name. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Macedonia |
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29/8 - |
Milcho Manchevski’s western drama Dust, starring Joseph Fiennes, opens this year’s Venice Film Festival. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Mali |
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Balla Moussa Keïta dies in Bamako at the age of 67. Keïta appeared in a number of Malian films. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Malta |
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– Kenneth Scicluna’s Genesis, the first full Maltese feature film, is released. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Norway |
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– The Norwegian Film Fund is established to grant state funds for film production. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Senegal |
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– Joseph Gaï Ramaka’s Karmen is banned as a result of violent protests by Muslims over a scene in which a song of Sheikh Ahmadou Bamba, the founder of Mouridism , is used to commemorate the suicide of a homosexual prison guard. [MORE] [ADD] |
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Thailand |
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17/8 - |
Chatrichalerm Yukol’s Suriyothai is released. With a budget of approximately 250 million baht it is the most expensive film in Thai history, and the country’s highest grossing film to date. [MORE] [ADD] |
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