News about Festivals in Mediterranean
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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Created in 2013 as part of the Venice International Film Festival, Final Cut in Venice is a programme supporting the post-production of films from every African country and five Middle Eastern ones: Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria. Every year seven films are selected to participate in the three day programme (this year from September …
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American director Martin Scorsese has been named patron ofthis year’sAtlas Workshops, the talent-development programme for young creators at the Marrakesh International Film Festival. Scorsese has been invited five times since the festival’s creation, in particular as jury president in 2013 and then for the tribute to Robert De Niro in 2018. “I am always very …
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