News about Festivals in Mediterranean
On Monday April 13th the committee of the 34th Istanbul Film Festival announced the cancellation of the official national and international competitions, the national documentary competition and the festival’s closing ceremony. All this after several film-makers had withdrawn their films as protest to the last-minute ban of a Turkish documentary “Bakur” (The North), made by …
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The Italia Prize is innovating ! From September 19th to 24th in Turin For the past 67 years the Italia Prize has supported and highlighted all genres of creativity and quality in the media. True to this mission, and aware that society and technology are always evolving, the Prix Italia has decided to create two …
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This year the Panorama of North African and Middle Eastern Film will celebrate its tenth birthday. It will take place between March 31st and April 19th just outside Paris in Saint-Denis and Seine-Saint-Denis. Audiences will see the latest films from North Africa and the Middle East through a selection of some fifty films from Morocco, …
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Every year since 2004, Festimaj, the international festival of student films, the largest cinema in the world, offers a journey across five continents to see films made by and with young people aged between 4 and 30 years old. This year it will be held from May 27th to June 27th. Festimaj was created by …
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This festival showcases films and documentaries from the Arab world, made by Arab and non-Arab film-makers, professional or amateur, and will be held at the Radio Theatre in central London this coming autumn. This second year focuses on the political upheavals which continue to transform the Arab world following the Arab Spring. The theme, “Rulers …
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The 10th FIFOG, dedicated to love and sponsored by the poet Adonis, was held from March 20th to 29th. It ended with a prize-giving ceremony on Saturday, March 28th at Geneva’s Maison des arts Grütli . This year the documentary jury awarded the Gold FIFOG to “This is my land” by Israeli director Tamara Erde. …
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Brahim Seddiki, the festival’s commissioner, announced that the 8th Oran Festival of Arab Film will start on June 3rd. The Algerian film-maker Mohammed Lakhdar Hamina will be honorary chairman. The commissioner also announced that “a charter for the Oran Festival of Arab Film is being drawn up. It will establish a set of traditions for …
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