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News about Festivals in Mediterranean

MEDITERRANEAN / CIRCLE Women Doc Accelerator announces their chosen projects

CIRCLE Women Doc Accelerator

CIRCLE has announced this year’s 10 selected projects for its Women Doc Accelerator programme. CIRCLE is a unique international training programme for directors, producers and non-binaries working in documentaries and drama. Its Doc Accelerator programme, created in 2018, offers training to 10 women with documentary projects. The programme consists of three modules during which the …

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CROATIA – EGYPT / The Egyptian film “Voy! Voy! Voy!” major winner at the Split Mediterranean Film Festival

Voy! Voy! Voy!

As part of the 17th Split Mediterranean Film Festival (June 13th – 22nd), the Egyptian Voy! Voy!Voy! won the Best Feature Film Award and the Jury Award. Directed and written by Omar Hilal, the film is about a security guard desperate to leave Egypt. Discovering blind football, he fakes blindness so he can get on …

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MENA / Winners of the 19th FIFOG

FIFOG

The 19th International Oriental Film Festival (FIFOG) was held in Geneva from June 10th to 16th. There were 45 films, 16 directed by women, presented in four competitive categories. In the feature film category the jury awarded FIFOG Gold to Tunisian director Nada Mezni Hafaiedh. Her film, Take My Breath, is about a 23 year-old …

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MOROCCO / Morocco at MIFA

Festival Annecy 2024

Morocco was the only Arab country present at the International Animated Film Market (MIFA), part of the 48th Annecy International Festival of Animated Film. The pavilion was run by the Centre Cinématographique Marocain (CCM). CCM’s presence at MIFA gave people working in animation in Morocco the chance to show their film and audiovisual productions and …

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TUNISIA / The Hammamet International Festival organises a short film competition

Festival International de Hammamet

As part of its 60th anniversary, the Hammamet International Festival is presenting a short film competition on the theme: “Behind the scenes of the Hammamet International Festival, like a human story.” Organized by Hammamet’s International Cultural Centre and the Centre national du cinema et de l’image, the competition offers the winners training workshops for designing …

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CROATIA / Two Croatian shorts in competition at Annecy

Festival Annecy 2024

Two Croatian short films, Moral Support and Windows from the South, were chosen to be shown at the recent Annecy International Animated Film Festival. Moral Support, directed by Vuk Jevremovic, had its world premiere in the Short Film competition. Inspired by the music of the Slovenian group Laibach and their song Moral Support, the film …

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EGYPT / CINEGOUNA x O WEST: new project for the El Gouna Film Festival

CINEGOUNA x O WEST

On June 9th and 10th the El Gouna Film Festival joined forces with Orsacom Development’s new town on the outskirts of Cairo, O West, to organise CINEGOUNA x O WEST. The event created a dynamic hub for workshops, masterclasses, round tables and networking opportunities in this newly developed residential suburb. The aim was to support …

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