News about Festivals in Mediterranean
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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The 16th Festival international du film oriental de Genève (Fifog) was held from June 21st to 27th. “Hope” was this year’s catchword, with the objective of promoting film, diversity and intercultural dialogue in the world through 50 films from 20 different countries. “Papicha” by Franco-Algerian director Mounia Meddour won the competition’s most prestigious award: the Golden Fifog …
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The documentary “Cinema under Siege” won the Best Project Award in the Talent Hub Central & Eastern Europe section at the 2021 Sunny Side of the Doc co-production market. The film by Srđan Šarenac is about a group of artists in 1993 determined to organize the first Sarajevo Film Festival despite the siege of Sarajevo. …
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The first Steering Committee of the new UniFrance, an association born from the merger between TV France International (TVFI) and UniFrance, was held this Friday, July 2, 2021 at 10 a.m. and proceeded to the election of the presidency. Serge Toubiana and Hervé Michel, previously presidents of UniFrance and TV France International, were elected, in pairs, at the …
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Organized in Marseille from December 4th to 11th, 2021, the PriMed – the Festival of the Mediterranean in images, has just unveiled its selection of documentary films and reportages covering the Mediterranean. For its 25th edition, the festival received 345 films from 34 countries. Click below on the titles to watch the film trailers and …
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