Category: CINEMA

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Jordan / Support for TV series with the “Project Market-Amman”

RFC

On December 15th the Halaqat project, led by Jordan’s Royal Film Commission (RFC), wrapped up its mission in Amman with Project Market-Amman. The Halaqat project was launched back in October 2021, in partnership with the Drosos Foundation. It created an intensive programme to guide and support writer/director/producer teams developing Jordanian television series. For 12 months …

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Algeria / The ban on “Ben M’hidi” lifted

Ben M’Hidi

Banned in Algerian cinemas four years ago, Ben M’Hidi has now been approved by the viewing committees of the Ministry of Culture and the Arts and the Ministry of Mujahideen and Rights Holders. Directed by Bachir Derrais and written by Mourad Bourboune, the film traces the life of Larbi Ben M’hidi, from his childhood in …

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Tunisia / Image education project “Mille et un films” will continue

CNCI-Mille-et-un-films

Launched in 2016 by film director Moncef Dhouib, the image education project Mille et un films is being renewed for 2023. Financed by the Ministry of National Education and the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image (CNCI), this project introduces pupils aged 8 to 14 to film making. Every year across the country’s 24 …

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Algeria / Restoring 10 classic Algerian films in 2023

L’épopée de Cheikh Bouamama

During the international symposium “Cinema and Citizenship Issues” in Oran, Mourad Chouihi, director of the Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Audiovisuel (CNCA) announced that the Centre will be restoring and digitizing at least 10 classic Algerian films in 2023. Since 2012 the CNCA has restored 16 films, including L’aube des damnés (1965) by Ahmed …

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ITALY / Winners of the MedFilm Festival

MED FF 2022

Each year the MedFilm Festival, Rome’s oldest international film festival, invites audiences to discover the Mediterranean’s many cultures in a programme of drama and documentary films. The 28th edition was held from November 3rd to 13th. During the closing ceremony, the different juries rewarded this year’s best films. Among the works in the Official Competition, …

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ALGERIA / The exhibition “60 years of Algerian cinema” opens

Chronique des années de braise

To celebrate the 68th anniversary of the start of the Algerian war of independence, the Lumières association is organizing an exhibition tracing the history of Algerian cinema at the L’Afrique cinema in Algiers. Entitled 60 years of Algerian cinema, it shows posters of classic films, photographs of famous actors working on film sets and portraits …

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MEDITERRANEAN / Programme of the 22nd Brussels Cinemamed

Cinemamed

The 22nd Brussels festival for Mediterranean films, Cinemamed, will be held from December 2nd to 10th. On the opening evening there will be a screening of Maryam Touzani’s Le Bleu du Caftan. Created in 1989, this festival highlights films rarely seen in Belgium, providing “a space for dialogue and exchange between North and South, between …

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