Category: FESTIVALS

News about Festivals in Mediterranean

ALGERIA / The Franco-Algerian Nina Khada wins the Poulain d’Argent for Short Documentaries at Fespaco

Je me suis mordue la langue

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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EGYPT / Serbian director Emir Kusturica chair of the jury of the Cairo International Film Festival

Emir Kusturica

Serbian director Emir Kusturica is the chair of the jury of the 43rd Cairo International Film Festival running from November 26th to December 5th. The jury will decide the winners among the 13 films entered in the International Competition, which includes 8 European productions or co-productions. In all 98 films from 63 countries will be …

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PORTUGAL / «918 Gau» wins the International Competition of the 19th DocsLisboa

918 Gau

After its world premiere during the DocsLisboa festival, Arantza Santesteban’s “918 Gau” (918 Nights) won the event’s most prestigious award: the City of Lisbon Award for Best Film in International Competition. 10 years after her release from prison, the Spanish director has recreated the circumstances of her arrest in a first person narrative: “On October …

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ITALY / The 62nd Festival dei Popoli offers a retrospective on the work of French film-makers Nicolas Klotz and Elisabeth Perceval

Festival dei Popoli

Europe’s oldest documentary event, the Festival dei Popoli, will run in Florence from November 20th to 28th. This year, in addition to the two competitions – international (18 documentaries not yet shown in Italy) and Italian (7 premiers) – the festival is hosting the first Italian retrospective of the films of French directors Nicolas Klotz …

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FRANCE / For its 10th year the Noisy-le-Sec Festival of Franco-Arab Film puts Palestine in the seat of honour

FFA 2021

Having been cancelled in 2021 because of the health crisis, the Franco-Arab Film Festival (FFFA) of Noisy-le-Sec ran from November 12th to 23rd. Since 2011 this annual event has supported “recent films by film-makers from Arab countries and French directors whose backgrounds and concerns are linked to those countries.” A total of 29 feature films, …

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JORDAN / “Tala’ Vision”, first Arab and Jordanian film to win a gold medal at the 48th Student Academy Awards

Tala Vision

“Tala ‘Vision” is the first Jordanian or Arab film to win the gold medal for Best Narrative Film (International) at the 48th Student Academy Awards in California, also called the “Student Oscars”. This victory allows directors to compete for their work in the short films category at the 2022 Oscars. The Jordanian-German short is about …

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TUNISIA / “Papillon d’Or” chosen by the CNCI to represent Tunisia at the 94th Oscars

Papillon d'Or

Abdelhamid Bouchnak’s “Papillon d’Or” (Golden Butterfly) has been chosen to represent Tunisia at the 2022 Oscars, competing for the Best International Feature Film Award. The film was selected on October 12th at a committee-meeting chaired by Slim Dargachi, director general of the CNCI (Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image). “A sort of psychic reading or even …

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