News about Festivals in Mediterranean
The board of the French Directors’ Guild (Société des réalisateurs de films) has announced its current artistic director, Paolo Moretti, is leaving. This will be an opportunity to “rethink in depth the Directors’ Fortnight, its name, its unique qualities, its strategic and militant place.” In office since 2018, Paolo Moretti is preparing his last festival, …
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Concerned Citizen, Idan Haguel’s second feature film, had its world premiere in the Panorama section of this year’s Berlinale. After his first film, Inertia (2017), also shown at the Berlin Film Festival, Idan Haguel returns with this black comedy. Idan Haguel is an Israeli director, journalist and screenwriter. With Concerned Citizen, he takes us into …
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The Venice Film Festival is organizing the 3rd “Classici fuori Mostra” (Permanent Festival of Restored Films). 14 international classic films, each carefully restored by the world’s finest film institutions, will be screened every Thursday from February 10th to May 26th 2022 at Venice’s Cinema Rossini. This year’s festival is organized in partnership with the City …
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PriMed, the International Festival of Mediterranean Documentary and Reportage is launching film registrations for the 26th edition. Directors can register their documentaries for free, directly online on the festival website www.primed.tv.The deadline to send the works is April 15, 2022. The PriMed – International Documentary and Mediterranean Reportage Award is open to all authors, directors, …
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Tunisian director Neijb Belkadhi’s “Communion” has been selected for the official competition of the first Red Sea International Film Festival. The event will take place in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia from December 6th to 15th. “Communion” takes us back to March 2020 as the pandemic is beginning to spread: “A couple, a cat, a virus. During …
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“Petite Nature” by French director Samuel Theis won the Golden Alexander, the most prestigious award at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival. The film’s lead actor, Aliona Reinert, won Best Actor Award. The young actor plays Johnny, an intelligent, sensitive ten-year-old whose difficult family life in a council estate in eastern France is turned upside down …
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French-Algerian director Nina Khada ’s new film “Je me suis mordue la langue” (I bit my tongue) won the Silver Poulain for Short Documentary at the 27th Pan-African Film and Television Festival (Fespaco) in Ouagadougou. “I bit my tongue”, a quest for identity In this 25-minute first-person documentary the film-maker tries to rediscover the language …
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