Category: FESTIVALS

News about Festivals in Mediterranean

MOROCCO / 13th FCMMT: call for films

The Centre Cinématographique Marocain (CCM) is organizing the 13th Tangier Festival of Mediterranean Short Film from October 5th to 10th. The programme includes a competition open to drama shorts made by film-makers from the Mediterranean in 2014 or 2015, a cinema course, press conferences about the films in competition and parallel activities. The deadline for …

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MOROCCO / 7th FIDADOC

The 7th Festival International de Film Documentaire à Agadir (FIDADOC) organized by the Association de Culture et d’Éducation par l’Audiovisuel, took place from May 4th to 9th. It was sponsored by the journalist and critic Luciano Barisone, director of the Visions du Réel Festival. Exclusively for documentaries, this festival allows ordinary people, young film-makers, particularly …

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FRANCE / Festival “Palestine in sight”

“Palestine in sight – First Palestinian Film Festival in the Rhône-Alpes Created by the ERAP Association (Palestine/Rhône-Alpes Exchanges) this first festival of Palestinian film opened in Annecy (France) in May and will travel round ten of the region’s towns from June 3rd to 12th. More than twenty screenings of ten different films are being shown. …

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FRANCE / Official selection for the 34th URTI International Grand Prix for Creative Documentary

In a press statement on April 16th, URTI (Union Radiophonique et Télévisuelle Internationale) announced its official selection. The pre-selection jury of the 34th URTI International Grand Prix of Creative Documentary, made up of the heads of public service television channels which are members of URTI, met in Paris from April 13th to 16th to decide …

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FRANCE / An Award for documentaries at Cannes

The 68th Cannes Film Festival will take place from May 13th to 24th. This year, there will be a new award, L’Œil d’Or (Golden Eye) for Best Documentary across all sections: Official Selection In and Out of Competition, Un Certain Regard, Directors’ Fortnight and Critics’ Week. The driving force behind this new award is the …

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ROMANIA / 1st National Film Festival for blind people

At present, visually impaired people’s access to film culture is not easy. Most films are not audio-described and few cinemas are equipped to show them. But in Romania, the Association for the Promotion of Romanian Film, in partnership with the Cartea Călătoare Foundation, is organizing the first national film festival for people with visual impairments …

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MOROCCO / 4th North African Short Film Festival

The 4th North African Short Film Festival, organized by “Ciné Maghreb”, was held from April 7th to 11th in Oujda at the Théâtre Mohammed VI on the theme “North African cinema: between culture and future development”. Among the 24 short films in competition, the short film “Passage à niveau” (Level Crossing) by Algerian director Anis …

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