The Festa del Cinema di Roma, or the Rome Film Fest, ended on October 27th. Now in its 14th year, the 10-day festival attracted 120,000 spectators, with most events taking place in the Auditorium Parco della Musica. The People’s Choice Award went to Alexandre Piva for Santa Subito, the Best Film Award to Sarah Suco …
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FRANCE / Award Winners of the 41st Cinemed
Cinemed, the Montpellier Festival of Mediterranean Films, closed on October 26th. This year’s president was the Mayor of Palermo, Leoluca Orlando, and the guest of honour director André Téchiné. The festival included many discussions, retrospectives and discoveries. The awards ceremony began with a preview of Dominik Moll’s film Seule les Bêtes. This year the Antigone …
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TUNISIA / Second Mediterranean Festival of First Documentaries
The second Mediterranean Festival of First Documentaries will be held in Tunis between December 25 th and 28 th . Organized by the Association du Cinéma Documentaire Tunisien, the festival aims to show-case talented young film-makers from the Mediterranean region by screening twenty-four documentaries from thirteen countries, all available free during the three-day festival. With …
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MOROCCO / Return of the Marrakesh Fête du Cinéma
The 2nd Fête du Cinéma in Marrakech was organized from September 27th to 29th. The Festival opened with Zabou Breitman’s Swallows of Kabul. There were screenings of Moroccan film classics, such as: De quelques événements sans signification (1974, Mostafa Derkaoui) and the rushes of La Longue Journée (1969, Mohamed Abazi and Donna Woolf), discovered in …
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TUNISIA / The Tunisian Cinémathèque pays tribute to Youssef Ben Youssef
On Tuesday September 17th the Tunisian Cinematheque launched its new season, which includes an exhibition of the work of director of photography Youssef Ben Youssef, who died in December 2018. This posthumous tribute will continue until November 10th. Mohamed Zine Elabidine, Minister of Tunisian Cultural Affairs, was present at the opening. Film professionals and personalities, …
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JORDAN / “Anthology Film: Women in the Maghreb – Mashreq Region”: start of post-production
The Jordanian Royal Film Commission and UNESCO, with the support of the European Union, have announced that the five teams collaborating to make “Anthology Film: Women in the Maghreb – Mashreq Region” have completed production of their short films and are now starting post-production. The project is part of a programme to strengthen the film-makers’ …
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UNITED STATES / The 2020 Oscar awards: Mediterranean candidates for Best International Feature Film
The registration period is officially open for nominations for the Academy Awards Best International Feature Film (formerly Best Foreign Language Film) to be presented at the 92nd Academy Awards. To be eligible for this Oscar, films must have been released in their country of origin between October 1st 2018 and September 30th 2019. Once all …
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