The third printemps du film engagé, a festival of politically committed drama and documentary films, will be held in Marseille from April 6th to 14th. Organized by a collective of the same name, this year’s festival focuses on the theme “1968-2018, why I continue the fight”. Primitivi, a Marseille-based street television for alternative news, will …
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FRANCE / Candidate call for the URTI Grand Prix
Since 1981 the Union Radiophonique et Télévisuelle Internationale (URTI) has organized an annual competition for auteur documentaries, with a Grand Prix for the winning film. The aim of the competition is four-fold: to encourage the independent documentary format, to promote humanist values of tolerance and respect between peoples, to reject any form of propaganda whatsoever …
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CROATIA / 14th ZagrebDox
The 14th ZagrebDox, the largest documentary festival in the Balkans, was held in the Croatian capital from February 25th to March 4th. The opening film was Marta Prus’ “Over the Limit”, following a 20-year-old Russian gymnast hoping to win an Olympic medal. The film won the “Small Stamp” for the best film made by someone …
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ITALY / Call for application for the 12th “C’é un tempo per… l’integrazione” festival
PrimMed’s partner and friend for many years, this festival will be held in Bergamo and Sarnico (Italy) from May 10th to 13th. Its goal is to bring together and promote films about multiculturalism from all over the world. It also gives a special place to young cinematographers, independent film-makers and innovative projects. The festival’s criteria …
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FRANCE / 9th edition of the “La première fois” festival
The 9th “La première fois”, a festival for long, medium-length and short films, was held in Aix en Provence and Marseille from February 20th to 24th. All the films were first documentaries. This year’s guest of honour, Jean-Gabriel Périot, gave a masterclass on the first day, which was followed by the official opening. Several Mediterranean …
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GERMANY / Several Mediterranean films shown at the 2018 Berlinale
On Thursday February 15th the 68th edition of the famous film festival opened in Berlin. Several Mediterranean films are in the running in the different categories. France, Italy, the Lebanon, Spain and Portugal have the most productions or co-productions made in the region (15 for France, 10 for Italy, 9 for Lebanon and 6 each …
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FRANCE / Awards at Clermont Ferrand’s short-film festival
The Clermont Ferrand short film festival was held from February 2nd to 10th. It broke attendance records with more than 165,000 spectators. In the national category, the Turkish director Ayce Kartal won the grand jury prize with his animated short “Kötü kiz” (Naughty Girl), a Franco-Turkish co-production. Other Mediterranean co-productions also won awards, for example …
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