News about Festivals in Mediterranean
Two major Egyptian festivals have been postponed due to the war between Hamas and Israel. The management of the El Gouna Film Festival announced in a press release the indefinite postponement of their event: “the GFF team hopes to resume the 6th edition when the situation in the Palestinian territories stabilizes.” The deferment of the …
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The 45th Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival – Cinemed – was held from October 20th to 28th. This year, the festival presented 200 films including several French premieres. There were competitions for feature films, shorts and documentaries as well as a retrospective of Italian film-maker Ettore Scola. This year eight feature-length documentaries on the Lebanon, Palestine, …
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The 34th Fameck Arab Film Festival took place from October 5th to 15th with Morocco as the country in the spotlight. The event, organized by the Cité Sociale de Fameck and the Ligue de l’enseignement, offered more than 40 films (feature-length dramas, documentaries and shorts), many of which are new or in preview. Film-makers from …
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During a press conference, the organisers of the El Gouna Film Festival announced the films for the 6th edition which will be held from October 27th to November 2nd. This international festival specialises in discovering new voices while also being a catalyst for developing film-production in the Arab world. 14 films will be shown in …
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After an absence of four years, the Annaba Mediterranean Film Festival (AMFF) returns from November 3rd to 9th for a fourth edition. Using the tag-line “New vision”, the event’s organiser Mohammed Allal wants to “give a truly international dimension to the Annaba Festival, in particular by selecting the best films and by increasing the value …
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The Tunisian Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée has chosen Kaouther Ben Hania’s documentary Les Filles d’Olfa to represent Tunisia at the Oscars in the categories of Best International Film and Best Documentary. The final nominations will be announced by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on December 21st. The …
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Created in 1993, the Astra Film Festival this year celebrates 30 years of showing documentary films from Romania, Eastern Europe and more broadly from around the world. The festivities will take place from October 15thto 22nd in Sibiu. Astra has become one of the main platforms for documentary cinema in Romania and Eastern Europe and …
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