Category: FESTIVALS

News about Festivals in Mediterranean

ALBANIA / Call for entries for the 5th EFFA

The Environmental Film Festival Albania (EFFA) has launched a call for entries for its fifth session, scheduled from May 21st to 27th 2017. The films presented focus on environmental awareness. There are three categories: feature films, short films and films from the EFFA lab – a structure giving financial support to films from the Balkans …

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ITALY / Launch of the 1st Sonic Scene Festival

The T.a.Rock Cultural Association is organizing the Festival Internazionale di Cinema musicale – Music Film Festival, which will be held in Trani, Italy from December 15th to 17th 2017. A festival of international films with a musical theme, its objective is to promote documentaries and fiction films which combine cinema and music in a definite …

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ARAB WORLD / This year’s Arab Radio and Television Festival organised by ASBU

The 18th Arab Radio and Television Festival will be held in Hammamet, Tunisia, from April 25th to 28th 2017. It is organized by the Arab States Broadcasting Union (ASBU), in collaboration with Tunisian radio and television companies and in partnership with the prestigious ARABSAT, the leading satellite broadcaster in the Arab region. Created two years …

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FRANCE / France Télévisions, the multiple winner at the Festival de Luchon

A festival of creative television closed with an awards ceremony on Saturday February 4th. There were some twenty awards, chosen by 3 juries plus the audience votes. Laurent Pereau’s film for Arte, La Bête Curieuse, won the Pyrénées d’OR for Best Drama, with Laura Smet as principal actress. Most of the award-winners, though, were made …

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SPAIN / The 31st Goya Awards

The Goya Awards Ceremony for Spanish and Latin American films was held in Madrid on Saturday, February 4th. The award for Best Feature Film went to Tarde para la ira (The Wrath of a Patient Man) by Raúl Arévalo. A thriller in which a man takes revenge for a crime, eight years after it has …

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THE NETHERLANDS / Focus on the International Film Festival of Rotterdam

The IFFR (International Film Festival of Rotterdam) was held between January 25th and February 5th – this year’s edition being the 46th. The festival shows drama films, creative documentaries and other visual arts. There are also retrospectives, even though the emphasis is on discovering and recognising new talent. The films are in 4 different categories, …

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MOROCCO / 4th Tangier Cap Spartel Film Festival

The Observatoire Marocain de l’Image et des Médias is organizing its fourth “Cap Spartel Film Festival” from April 5th to 8th in Tangier. The theme will be “Film and Borders”. Indeed the festival’s aim this year is to show that “there is not only exile across geographical borders, but also across our own frontiers”. For …

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