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!
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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MOROCCO / 3rd CAP Spartel Film Festival at Tangier
From April 16th to 19th the Moroccan Observatoire de l’Image et des Médias is organizing the third CAP Spartel Film Festival in Tangier on “Cinema and the arts”. This year the festival will focus on analysing “the intimate, ontological relationship linking cinema to the other arts”. 18 short documentaries and dramas, Moroccan and international, are …
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TURKEY / Creation of a Eurimages Award for the Best Woman Director
To mark the 35th Istanbul Film Festival – the IKSV – which takes place from April 7th to 17th, the Council of Europe’s Eurimages Fund will inaugurate a new award designed to spotlight Euro-Mediterranean women directors. The Audentia Award will be given to one of the 15 films pre-selected from all categories and all films …
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