Category: FESTIVALS

News about Festivals in Mediterranean

GREECE / Winners at the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival’s Agora

Although the 22nd Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival was postponed (originally scheduled from March 5th to 15th), some of its activities, such as the development forum Agora, took place anyway. The Agora Doc Market took place entirely online and so various film projects have received financial support, among them several Mediterranean projects: The Italian film A …

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FRANCE / 19th CineHorizontes

This year’s CineHorizontes will be held in Marseille from November 5th to 13th. Since 2001 this Spanish film festival has shown French audiences the wealth and diversity of Iberian cinema. The festival is organized around various events : An official competition with different categories, chaired by a jury of professionals. Several awards are given, including …

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MOROCCO / 7th Cap Spartel Film Festival

Organised by the Observatoire marocain de l’image et des médias, the 7th Cap Spartel Film Festival will run from March 18th to 21st. This year, “Cinema and human rights” will be the topic discussed at Tangier’s Rif Cinematheque. Each year the Cap Spartel Film Festival focusses on a country and its films. This year Czech …

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ITALY / 15th Sole Luna Doc Film Festival

From July 6th to 12th this year the fifteenth Sole Luna Doc Film Festival will take place in Palermo, Italy. Created in 2006, the event is to encourage independent films and bring together the people working in them. Behind the festival’s organization is the association Sole Luna – A bridge between cultures whose name testifies …

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GREECE / Thessaloniki Documentary Festival postponed

Scheduled from March 5th to 15th, this year’s Thessaloniki Documentary Festival has been postponed until the end of May or early June 2020. In a press release, the organisers of the 22nd TDF explained the decision had been taken in the light of the WHO’s latest recommendations about the coronavirus. Their first concern is to …

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FRANCE / The results of the Series Mania CoPro Pitching Sessions

Every year Series Mania, the international forum for the makers of television series, organizes a call for projects: the CoPro Pitching Sessions, an event for professionals with a series project in development. On February 19th festival director Laurence Herszberg announced the fifteen projects selected for this year’s session. Nine of them are produced, or co-produced, …

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EGYPT / ZoomInWomen: call for short films open

The ZoomInWomen festival is part of a collaboration between Zatek (the Cairo-based Digital Museum of Women, an on-line system to help women’s emancipation) and the British Embassy, which in 2016 created Inspire Egypt, an event for Egyptians wanting to change their society’s attitudes to women. ZoomInWomen is a travelling event, using short films to show …

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