Category: FESTIVALS

News about Festivals in Mediterranean

EUROMEDITERRANEAN / Review of the awards at year’s end

Apart from PriMed, which ended on December 12th in Marseille, several Mediterranean festivals gave their awards over the past few days. Recap from Annaba, Brussels and Marrakesh. On its return after a long break, the Annaba Festival of Mediterranean Film gave its Golden Annab to a Palestinian black comedy, “Dégradé”, directed by Arab and Tarzan …

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Special Issue for PriMed 2015: the awards, reactions and photos…

PriMed’s 2015 jury announced its carefully considered verdict at the awards ceremony on Friday December 11th – with Algerian actress and singer Biyouna, godmother of this year’s festival, in attendance. From the 24 films in the final selection, 11 won awards – the very best in documentary, reportage and web-documentary. Throughout the week more than …

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The 19th PriMed has begun !

From December 5th to 12th PriMed (Prix International du Documentaire et du Reportage méditerranéen) is back for its 19th year, already promising to stimulate, move, provoke, even change people. For a week at the Villa Méditerranée, the Bibliothèque de l’Alcazar and MuCEM, the CMCA (Centre Méditerranéen de la Communication Audiovisuelle), organiser of PriMed, is offering …

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TUNISIA / The Tanit d’Or for “L’Orchestre des Aveugles”

Despite the curfew imposed in Tunisia after the attack of November 24th, the Carthage Film Festival managed to run its course as scheduled. The audience responded well, despite the tense atmosphere, as evidenced by the success of “Much Loved”, attracting 1,600 spectators for its screening and winning the Jury Prize. Another Moroccan film, Mohamed Mouftakir‘s …

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TUNISIA / The Carthage Film Festival maintained

Despite the attack killing at least 13 people in Tunis on November 24th, the chairman of the 26th Carthage Film Festival, Ibrahim Letaïef, confirmed the festival would continue. “This is the only way to respond to these barbaric acts, “ he said. “The organizing team is currently working on re-scheduling the programme to take into …

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BELGIUM / Brussels celebrates Mediterranean films

From December 4th to 11th Brussels hosts the fifteenth Brussels Festival of Mediterranean Film at the Botanique, at the Bozar, and for the first time at the Cinéma Aventure. 70’s films from 20 countries are included in this year’s programme. The opening film will be Jonas Carpignano‘s “Mediterranea”, showing the dangers and tragedies of illegal …

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ALGERIA / The Annaba festival returns after 30 years

It took 30 years, but the Annaba Festival of Mediterranean Film is well and truly back. Formerly known as “Mediterranean Film Days”, the event will run from December 3rd to 9th in the coastal city of Annaba at the Azzedine Medjoubi Theatre and at the Mohamed Boudiaf Palace of Culture, under the aegis of the …

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