Category: FESTIVALS

News about Festivals in Mediterranean

FRANCE / New for the 17th Luchon Festival: documentaries

The 17th Festival of Television Creations at Luchon will take place from February 4th to 8th. Created in 1998, the aim is to promote French broadcast drama by rewarding the best single drama, mini series, short programmes and web-series. This year there will be something new: a documentary category with its own selection committee and …

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FRANCE / Short Film Festival at Vaulx-en-Velin: Tunisia guest of honour

The 15th French-language Short Film Festival was held at Vaulx-en-Velin between January 16th and 24th. This year, “a fist is short”, Tunisia was guest of honour with an evening of Tunisian short films, including two dramas: Nadia Toujer’s “Précipice” and Samir Harbaoui’s “Désirs” – plus two documentaries, Abdallah Chamekh’s “Ici et maintenant” and “Femme courage” …

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CROATIA / 11th ZagrebDox

This year ZagrebDox, the International Documentary Film Festival, will take place from February 22nd to March 1st at Zagreb’s Kapitol Cineplexx Centre. In addition to the official competition (regional and international) and the official programme (Biography Dox, Musical Globe, Happy Dox, Controversial Dox, Masters of Dox, State of Affairs, Teen Dox, Factumentaries, ADU Dox and …

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MOROCCO / Creation of the Federation of International Film Festivals in Morocco

At Rabat on January 21st, during its inaugural general assembly and at the request of associations and foundations organising international film events in Morocco, the Federation of International Film Festivals in Morocco was created to promote Moroccan films. According to a press release issued by the new organization, the Federation “is intended to represent the …

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SPAIN / Moroccan film series “Después de Tánger: Marruecos Hoy” in Barcelona

“Después de Tánger. Marruecos hoy” is an event initiated by the Filmoteca de Cataluña, the Consell Nacional dels Drets Humans (CNDH) and Arte et Dignidad en Acción (ARTEDEA) in partnership with the Moroccan Embassy in Spain and the CCM. Created in the late 90s, “Después de Tánger” is characterized by its freedom, its rejection of …

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ALGERIA / 4the Jordanian Film Days

From January 10th to 12th six films were screened during the 4th Jordanian Film Days at the Algiers Cinematheque, as part of the cooperation between the Agence algérienne pour le rayonnement culturel (AARC) and the Jordanian Royal Film Commission, whose purpose is to promote the latest films in both countries. Mais Darwazah’s documentary “My love …

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EGYPT / Choice of films finalised for the 4th Luxor Film Festival

From March 16th to 21st, 31 African countries will participate in the Luxor African Film Festival, in addition to 10 foreign countries and co-productions with African countries competing in “Freedom Films”. The festival is organized by “Young Independent Artists”, with long and short films competing in four categories: Long Narrative, Long Documentary, Short Films (drama …

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