News about Festivals in Mediterranean
Celebrating its 9th year, the Bosphorus Film Festival will run from October 23rd to 30th in Istanbul. The organisers have just unveiled the title of the opening film: “Not So Friendly Neighbourhood Affair” (Deset U Pola) by Bosnian Oscar-winning director Danis Tanovic. The film had its world premiere this summer at the 27th Sarajevo Film …
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“L’Évènement” (Happening), a film by French-Lebanese director Audrey Diwan, has won the Golden Lion, Venice Film Festival’s highest prize. Adapted from Annie Ernaux’ autobiographical novel published in 2000, it looks at the issue of illegal abortions in France in the 1960’s. Set in 1963, 12 years before the law forbidding abortions changed, the story follows …
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The Digital Portal of the Annaba Short Film Festival in Algeria and the Mizda International Short Film Festival in Libya have signed a cooperation agreement to “support and promote the work of young talents making short films”. The agreement is to organise joint internships and workshops for film training and short film production techniques. More …
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The Al Jazeera Documentary Channel and Al Jazeera Balkans have signed an agreement to “establish cooperation and provide support through financing, distribution and co-production for documentary and other film-makers from South East Europe, Southern Caucasus, Middle East and North Africa.” From 2022 the Al Jazeera Documentary Channel, Al Jazeera Balkans and the AJB DOC Film …
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The 2021 Figra – the Festival International de Grand Reportage d’Actualité et du Documentaire de Société – was held in Douai, northern France, from September 29th to October 3rd. Created in 1993 by Georges Marque-Bouareten, Figra – also known as “the screens of reality” – focusses on reporters who keep us informed about the world, …
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Tunisian director Erige Sehiri’s “Under the Fig Trees” won no fewer than eight awards at the 78th Venice Film Festival’s Final Cut Workshop. Two of them were sponsored by partners of the Arab Cinema Centre, Mad Solutions and the ElGouna Film Festival, and these will help market, advertise and distribute the film. Since 2013 Final …
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“Do You Love Me” wins the Sundance Documentary Fund to finance its production. In 2019 the film received the Robert Bosch Stiftung Film Award as well as development funding from the IDFA Bertha Fund and the Doha Film Institute. The feature film is a “kind of visual patchwork” made up of archives, both of the …
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