Category: FESTIVALS

News about Festivals in Mediterranean

SPAIN / A film market at the San Sebastian International Film Festival (SSIFF)

The San Sebastian International Film Festival (SSIFF) will take place from September 18th to 26th. As they prepared for this year’s event the organizers announced they want to introduce a film market into the programme. Like the Zurich Film Festival, the SSIFF wants to create a market which would include films selected for festivals cancelled …

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FRANCE / The films shown by Escales Documentaires

On March 30th Escales Documentaires began a scheme to show award-winning films from their previous festivals. Every week their website gives a link to a different film, accessible free of charge. On the first week they showed the winner of the 2019 Young Peoples’ Award, The Way Back directed by Dimitre Petrovic and Maxime Jennes. …

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CROATIA / Winners at the ZagrebDox Pro

The sixteenth ZagrebDox Pro, a training programme for film professionals with documentary projects, took place online from March 15th to 23rd. The event was for films at different stages of development and production and included a pitching forum, individual meetings with film industry representatives and various masterclasses. There were four awards, two of them going …

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FRANCE / Primed : extension of the deadline for films

The deadline for submitting films (documentaries and news reports) to participate in PriMed – the International Festival of Mediterranean Documentary Film and Reportage – which was initially March 31st, has been extended to April 15th. As a reminder, PriMed is open to all writers, directors, producers and broadcasters who, through their programmes or films, help …

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ISRAEL / Docaviv postponed

The 22nd Docaviv, the international documentary film festival in Tel Aviv, has been postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic. In a statement the festival director said: “our aim is to move forward – not in panic or sadness, but with hope for the future.” For this reason the Docaviv organisers decided to postpone the event, …

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FRANCE / Aubagne International Film Festival

Scheduled from March 30th to April 4th. Music & Cinema, the Aubagne International Film Festival has been cancelled because of the confinement imposed by the coronavirus pandemic. But not wanting to suppress the festival completely, the organizers decided to make it a virtual event. They have created a platform to highlight the creators and their …

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FRANCE / Call for films “À ton court”

France Télévisions is renewing its competition “À ton court” this year. It’s an opportunity for anyone aged between 16 and 30 to submit a short drama film, an animated film or a documentary of less than 5 minutes. The theme of this year’s competition is Quel monde pour demain? (What world for tomorrow?), particularly for films …

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