Category: FESTIVALS

News about Festivals in Mediterranean

GREECE / Candidate call for the Agora of Thessaloniki

Agora, the professional section of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival, has opened the 2016 application call for its three programmes: – The Agora Film Market, a place of exchange between producers, helping them promote their films being shown at the festival. The closing date is September 16th. – Crossroads, a co-production forum helping producers and …

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TURKEY / Two Turkish films triumph at the Istanbul Festival

The 35th Istanbul International Film Festival ended with an awards ceremony on April 17th. In the National Competition most of the awards went to just two films: Ahu Öztürk’s “Dust Cloth”, about two Kurdish cleaning ladies in Istanbul, won the Golden Tulip for Best Film, Best Actress, Best Screenplay and the Cineuropa Award. Mustafa Kara’s …

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TUNISIA / The 10th Doc à Tunis bigger than ever

The 10th documentary festival Doc in Tunis, organized by an association called Ness El Fen, was held from April 20th to 24th. Traditionally based in Tunis, the festival also organised screenings of selected films in 3 other Tunisian towns from April 22nd to 24th: Bizerte, Kairouan and Sidi Bouzid. The theme of this year’s festival …

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FRANCE / Ferid Boughedir guest of honour of Cinémas du Sud

From April 27th to 30th, Regard Sud, an association based in Lyon, is organising the 16th Cinémas du Sud festival, focussing on North African and Middle Eastern films. Over 4 days, 9 films from 8 countries of the Arab world will be screened at the Institut Lumière. The Tunisan director Ferid Boughedir, will be this …

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PriMed 2016: registration deadline extended until April 10th!

PriMed

The candidate call for the 20th PriMed has been extended! New deadline for registering films: APRIL 10th 2016, final limit! Registering films for PriMed is FREE. Click here to access the registration forms and the rules. The 20th PriMed will be held in Marseille from November 19th to 26th 2016. PriMed – the International Awards …

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GREECE / The Thessaloniki Festival has a new director

Following Dmitry Eipides’ resignation, which he announced in January, the Thessaloniki Festival’s Board of Directors have appointed Elise Jalladeau to run the event. Madame Jalladeau is French but knows Greece very well, since she was broadcasting attaché to the French Embassy in Athens, organizing a French Film Festival in the Greek capital. From 2011 to …

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ITALY / Focus on the Middle East at Florence

From April 5th to 10th Florence is hosting the seventh Middle East Now – a festival of film and culture. The programming looks at Middle Eastern culture, with screenings, exhibitions, concerts, food tastings and conferences. 44 films from across the Arab world will be screened, and for the first time a Saudi film-maker will be …

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