News about Festivals in Mediterranean
For the fourth consecutive year, the UK’s only festival exclusively for Arab films was held in London from September 13th to 18th. This year audiences discovered many films which have never been shown outside the Middle East. The screenings took place at the Institute of Contemporary Arts and the French Institute. This year’s theme was …
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The 13th Lebanese Film Festival was held from September 17th to 21st in Beirut Souks, Cinemacity. Many of those active on the country’s film festival circuit were there, Carol Mezher, for example, director of Films Femmes Francophones Méditerranée, who is collaborating with the Festival this year. She insisted that, for its 13th edition, the Festival …
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The 70th Prix Italia will be held in Capri from September 25th to 29th. When it was created in 1948, the awards were only for radio programmes, opening out to television in 1957. The Prix has a unique structure: the General Assembly, made up of its international members, makes the decisions while RAI organises the …
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The European Film Festival is taking place in the Jordanian capital from September 19th to 29th. Created by the European Union, in partnership with the Jordanian Royal Film Commission, the Ministry of Culture and the Tourist Board, together with the Municipality of Amman, the festival will be screening 19 European films. Also on the programme …
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To celebrate its fifth anniversary, Başka Sinema, a Turkish independent film distributor, is organising a festival on the Aegean coast from October 5th to 10th. The festival director is Azize Tan, who has run the distribution company since 2016. He has also supervised the Istanbul Film Festival for almost ten years. There will be public …
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Farouk Essalhi, a 17-year-old high school student, and four of his classmates have created the Moroccan Youth Film Festival, which will be held at Rabat’s Renaissance Cinema on September 29th. In only three months the founder-organisers have managed to attract 700 participants from 74 countries. The jury will be chaired by Moroccan director and comic …
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For its 75th edition, the Venice Biennale turned towards digital with a dedicated platform allowing film enthusiasts from all over the world to “be present” at previews on the web. Creative Europe MEDIA organized a forum for European film, held within the precincts of the festival. The forum brought together film industry representatives and politicians …
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