Category: FESTIVALS

News about Festivals in Mediterranean

FRANCE / The 39th Douarnenez Film Festival turns towards Turkey

With last year’s festival focused on Andean cinema, this year the Douarnenez Film Festival (Brittany) will turn its lens on the people of Turkey. From August 19th to 27th 150 films will be shown to explore “Turkey’s history and the present reality” and also “to highlight the shared influences, dialogue and ways of life.” Through …

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ITALY / Near Naples, an independent market for young directors

On July 26th the 1st Young Film Market will be held at Vico Equense, near Naples, as part of the 16th Social World Film Festival. This market is for European independent film and more particularly for new talent, those “who have little opportunity to present their work to leading professionals,” explains Giuseppe Alessio Nuzzo, a …

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MOROCCO / Call for films for the 9th Student Film Festival

The association Arts et Metiers is organizing the 9th International Student Film Festival (FIFE) in Casablanca from November 22nd to 25th 2016, in collaboration with the Institut IHB Art Média. A call for entries has been made for this year’s festival, whose theme is “Horizons”. Any student recently graduated or in their final year are …

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ITALY / Call for films for the Genoa “Port Zones” Film Festival

The application call for the second Genoa “Port Zones” Film Festival is open until July 31st 2016. The Festival is for films showing any aspect of the relationship between a port and the town around it: the workings of a port, the historical development of ports, any activities created by a port, the ways a …

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Selection for PriMed 2016: The Mediterranean Multimedia selection

The names of the four web-documentaries which will compete in the Mediterranean Multimedia category for PriMed 2016 have just been announced: – CASQUES SUR LE FRONT Robin BRAQUET and Flavian CHARUEL – CHRETIENS, JUIFS, MUSULMANS: DES LIEUX SAINTS EN PARTAGE Véronique BARRAL – FARSELONA  Kika SERRA and Paty GODOY – TROUBLED WATERS  Isabelle SYLVESTRE Click …

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TURKEY / The Discop Istanbul market cancelled for security reasons

The 2017 Istanbul Discop market for television programmes has been officially cancelled by its organizer Basic Lead. In a statement on the event’s website, Basic Lead, head-quartered in Los Angeles, says the decision is due to the “constant geopolitical tensions” which, at the previous market in early March, had “a very negative impact on attendance”. …

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FRANCE / The winners of the URTI Grand Prix for Creative Documentary

The jury of the 35th International URTI Grand Prix for Creative Documentary, chaired by the Greek writer, director and producer Menelaos Karaghiolis and made up of senior people in public television (Algeria, Belgium, Cameroon, Greece, Kosovo), gave its verdict on June 16th  during the Monte Carlo Television Festival. Ten documentaries were selected, these are the …

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