Category: FESTIVALS

News about Festivals in Mediterranean

FRANCE / Winners of the 34th URTI International Grand Prix of Creative Documentary

Grand Prix – Arman Trophy: Taïga France – France Télévisions, France 5 – 52′ Director: Hamid Sardar In the vastness of the Mongolian steppe, Purevjav returns to the nomadic way of life with his family. While trying to survive on a day-to-day basis, he reflects on the fragility of his people faced with a changing …

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FRANCE / 26th FID at Marseille

The 26th Marseille International Film Festival (FID) was held from June 30th to July 6th. This year over 130 films (documentary and drama), including many world premières, were screened in different places of the city including MuCEM, the Alcazar, the Villa Méditerranée and the Silo. Thirty-five films competed in the official selection, which was divided …

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SWITZERLAND / Locarno 2015: Creation of Alliance For Development

The 68th Locarno International Film Festival will be held from August 5th to 15th in the Swiss-Italian town. Every year the festival is a meeting place for film professionals, a place for film lovers to share their passion and make new discoveries through a rich and varied programme. The festival is organized around ten sections, …

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ITALY / New festival: RomAfrica Film Festival

In early July a brand new cultural event was born in Rome: the RomAfrica Film Festival (RAFF), held at the Casa del Cinema. The event, put on in collaboration with one of the largest African film festivals, the Pan African Festival of Cinema and Television of Ouagadougou (FESPACO), wants to offer “a look at an …

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CROATIA / Call for films: 13th ZFF

The Zagreb Film Festival, to be held in that town from November 14th to 22nd, has opened its call for applications. As every year, the idea driving the festival is to present and promote first films and new film-makers.There are three competitive categories: international feature films (first or second film), international short films (first or …

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ISRAEL / Call for applications for the Greenhouse training workshop

Every year since 2005 the Greenhouse programme has offered a series of seminars for film-makers and documentary producers from the following countries: Algeria, Afghanistan, Egypt, Jordan, Iran, lraq, Israel, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey and United Arab Emirates. Twelve to fifteen projects will be selected for 2015-2016. Directors and producers with …

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MOROCCO / FIFM: Francis Ford Coppola chairman of jury

This year, Francis Ford Coppola, director of “The Godfather” trilogy and “Apocalypse Now”, will chair the jury of the 15th Marrakesh International Film Festival (MIFF), according to a statement from the Festival Foundation. Isabelle Huppert did the job in 2014 and Martin Scorsese in 2013. Founded in 2001, the festival is dedicated to film and …

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