News about Festivals in Mediterranean
From October 11th to 17th the Cyprus International Short Film Festival presented a wide selection of national and international films in Limassol. In the international competition, Noi by Neritan Zinxhiria (Greece, Albania) won the Best Eastern Mediterranean Film Award plus a nomination for the European Short Film Award. In the national competition, the top award …
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Kaouther Ben Hania’s The Voice of Hind Rajab won the Audience Award at the 73rd San Sebastián International Film Festival, which took place from September 19th to 27th. Selected as Tunisia’s official submission for the 98th Academy Awards, this docudrama is about a six-year-old girl from Gaza, Hind Rajab, killed by Israeli forces in January …
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The 8th El Gouna Film Festival, running from October 16th to 24th in the Egyptian tourist resort of the same name, has announced the films in competition this year. This year’s organisers want to showcase young Egyptian film-makers by showing their first or second feature films. One of these is Mohamed Rashad’s The Settlement. This …
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The Royal Film Commission (RFC) has announced that All That’s Left of You, by Jordanian-Palestinian director Cherien Dabis, will be Jordan’s submission for the 2026 Oscars. It was selected from a call for entries launched by the RFC last June, with the final choice made by an independent committee of six members working in the …
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Roqia, the first feature film by director Yanis Koussim, premiered at the 82nd Venice Film Festival during International Critics’ Week. Produced by Supernova Films, the film takes place in 1992. Suffering from amnesia after a car crash, Ahmed returns to his village where nothing seems familiar, neither his wife nor his children. His youngest son, …
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At the Montenegro Film Festival, director Georgi M. Unkovski received the Golden Mimosa Award for his debut feature,DJ Ahmet. The film is about 15-year-old Ahmet who lives deep in the Macedonian mountains looking after his father’s sheep while also caring for his younger brother. But he dreams of making music. Living in a conservative village …
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The Astra Film Festival has announced its selection for this year’s event, which runs from October 17th to 26th in Sibiu, Romania. There will be five competitions, including a new category, DocShorts, with ten short documentaries. These will include Aitana by Marina Alberti (Spain), Beware of the Southern Stars by Christos Karteris (Greece), and Cosmonauts …
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