News about Festivals in Mediterranean
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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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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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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“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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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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The 16th Integrazione Film Festival is now open for registration. It aims to be “an international competition for short drama and documentary films which show how people from different cultural backgrounds have successfully integrated.” This year’s festival was online but next year it will take place face-to-face in Bergamo and Sarnico, from May 10th to …
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The 62nd Thessaloniki International Film Festival (TIFF) will be held from November 4th to 14th 2021, both face-to-face and online at online.filmfestival.gr. The only international and competitive Greek festival, TIFF selects mainly first and second feature films, focusing on auteur cinema. This year 197 films will be shown in Thessaloniki’s mythical screening venues: the Olympion, …
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