Category: FESTIVALS

News about Festivals in Mediterranean

ITALY / Dance is the guest of honour at the 13th Biografilm

The programme of the 13th Biografilm festival has been announced. Held in Bologna from June 9th to 19th, this year’s festival for life stories and biographies (documentaries, biopics) will focus on the world of dance. The opening film will be Stéphanie Di Giusto’s The Dancer, the life-story of Loïe Fuller, daughter of a farmer in …

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CYPRUS / Rosemarie wins first prize at the Cyprus Film Days

“Cyprus Film Days” is the country’s most important film event. The 15th session took place from April 27th to May 6th in Limassol and Nicosia. For the first time since the festival’s creation a Cypriot film won first prize. Adonis Florides’ Rosemarie received the “Glocal Images” Best Film Award in the international competition. The film …

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MOROCCO / The winner of the 9th FIDADOC

The 9th Agadir International Documentary Festival, organized by the Association de Culture par l’Education et l’Audiovisuel (ACEA), announced its three award-winners at a ceremony on May 13th in the town’s Hôtel de Ville. Many of Agadir’s local politicians and cultural affairs officials were present, as were a delegation of councillors from the French town of …

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TURKEY / Candidate call for BIFED

The fourth Bozcaada International Festival of Ecological Documentary (BIFED), will take place in Bozcaada, a Turkish town and island south of the Dardanelles, from October 11th to 15th 2017. The festival encourages films about ecology, bringing together art and the problems of the environment. Films are divided into three categories: the international documentary competition, a …

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NORTH AFRICA / Panorama des cinémas du Maghreb et du Moyen-Orient highlights women directors

The 12th PCMMO runs until May 14th in Paris and Seine Saint-Denis. Of the 53 films shown, 31 are made by women. Indeed this festival has always encouraged and supported women’s cinema. This year’s guest of honour is Hiam Abbass, a Palestinian actress and director who also stars in A mon âge, je me cache …

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FRANCE NORTH AFRICA / Two north African films chosen for the 2017 Cannes Film Festival

The official selection of films to be shown at the Cannes Film Festival has been published, with two north African films chosen in the “Un certain regard” section. This year’s festival, the 70th, will run from May 17th to 28th. One of the films is “Aala Kaf Ifrit” (Beauty and the Dogs) by young Tunisian …

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MOROCCO / a very African FIDADOC 2017

The FIDADOC (Agadir International Documentary Festival) celebrates its 9th year from May 8th to 13th, putting the spotlight on an unparalleled number of African films in the international competition. 10 feature-length films from 16 countries are part of the selection shown to the public. Six of them were produced or co-produced by an African country. …

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