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News about Festivals in Mediterranean

CROATIA / An experimental Croat film selected for the 2021 Oscars

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Croatian film-maker Dalibor Bari’s “Accidental Luxuriance of the Translucent Watery Rebus” is a surprise nomination for the 2021 Oscars. This Croatian feature is an experimental film, a rarity in the animation category. The film is about Martin and Sara, fleeing from an oppressive system they have been fighting against. Together they are trying to escape …

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SPAIN / “Las niñas” wins 4 awards at the 35th Goyas ceremony

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Pilar Palomero and her independent film “Las niñas” (“The girls”) took home 4 major awards at the 35th Goyas ceremony: Best Film, Best New Director, Best Original Screenplay – and Best Photography for Daniela Cajias, the first woman to receive this award. Women triumphed at this year’s Goyas: 40% of the nominees were women, a historic …

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FRANCE / Candidate call for the 14th Corsican Festival MED di u Filmu Cortu

MED di u Filmu Cortu 2021

The Corsican Film Competition organized by Diffusion KVA will show the latest short films produced on the island. This year the event will be in two parts: in the first half of the year it will be in the town of Furiani, near Bastia, then at the start of summer in Porto Vecchio at the Corsican cinémathèque. The …

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SPAIN MOROCCO / The 2021 Tarifa-Tangier Festival of African Film open to applications until March 12th

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The Tarifa-Tangier African Film Festival (FCAT) is launching a call to participate in its 18th edition. The deadline is midnight on March 12th. This year’s two-continent event is scheduled from May 28th to June 6th. An independent film festival, FCAT has become a reference in the Spanish-speaking world. Created in 2003, it promotes “films from the African continent …

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ITALY / “Dasatskisi” by Dea Kulumbegashvili scoops many awards at the Trieste Film Festival

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The Best Feature Film Award at the 32nd Trieste Film Festival went to “Dasatskisi” (Beginning) by Georgian director Dea Kulumbegashvili. With a first screening at the Toronto International Film Festival, this Franco-Georgian co-production was also selected at Cannes in 2020. Yana (Ia Sukhitashvili), the wife of a Jehovah’s Witness leader, finds her familiar world slowly crumbling around …

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TUNISIA / The Manarat Film Festival reprogrammed for July 2021

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Faced with the international health crisis, the organizers of the Manarat Festival of Mediterranean Film have decided to postpone the event. The 3rd edition will now take place from July 1st to 7th 2021. Manarat (“beacon” in Arabic), was founded in 2018 from a collaboration between the Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image (CNCI), the Centre National du Cinéma et …

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FRANCE / Registration for PriMed 2021 are officially open

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Registration for the 2021 International Festival of Mediterranean Documentary and Reportage is officially open. For this 25th edition the deadline for registration is April 15th 2021. Every year Primed is a showcase for documentary films and television reports from across the Mediterranean basin. They can be about the socio-political changes within the region, its history or its …

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