Category: FESTIVALS

News about Festivals in Mediterranean

FRANCE / First port of call for Festina Lente 2016

From May 2016 to August 2017, 25 circus artists, dancers, musicians, actors, set designers, artists, technicians, cooks and sailors will be living on and travelling in four sailing boats, a year’s nomadic festival, Festina Lente. From the Western Mediterranean to Brittany, via the Cape Verde and Canary Islands, Morocco, Senegal and the Azores, they will …

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MOROCCO / FIDADOC 2016 unveils its awards

Running from May 2nd to 7th and organised by the Association de Culture par l’Education et l’Audiovisuel (ACEA), the 8th Agadir International Documentary Festival (FIDADOC) presented its awards at a ceremony at the Town Hall. The “Nouzha Drissi” Grand Prix went to Liubov Durakova and Alisa Kovalenko’s Polish-Ukrainian “Alisa in Warland”: the self-portrait of a …

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FRANCE / Le Printemps du Film Engagé at Marseille

From May 20th to 25th, Marseille is hosting the Printemps du Film Engagé (Committed Film Spring), a new event which presents documentary films on social issues. The screenings are followed by discussions with film-makers, thinkers and others involved in social movements (Amis du Monde Diplo, ATTAC, LDH, CGT, FSU, Solidaires, Le Ravi, L’Humanité, La Marseillaise, …

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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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