Category: FESTIVALS

News about Festivals in Mediterranean

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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TUNISIA / The Douz Doc Days are back… at Djerba

The 5th Douz Doc Days at the Sahara Museum in Douz was originally scheduled for October last year, before being cancelled for lack of budget. But now it will definitely take place: it has been relocated to Djerba “for financial reasons”, according to its director Hichem Ben Ammar, and will be held from March 20th …

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GERMANY / A wind of victory blows over the Mediterranean

Mediterranean film-makers showed their talents at the recent Berlinale. While 18 films were in competition for the Golden Bears, Mediterranean countries took the best.

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FRANCE / 11th Panorama des Cinémas du Maghreb/Moyen-Orient

For the 11th year the association Indigènes Films is renewing its Panorama des Cinémas du Maghreb et du Moyen-Orient (PCMMO) in Paris and Seine-Saint-Denis. The 2016 selection of 43 films, dramas and documentaries, long or short, will be screened from March 29th to April 17th. In troubled periods like the one we are living though …

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ITALY / Call for films for the 17th Lucania Film Festival

From August 10th to 13th the cultural association Allelammie in collaboration with Namavista Films, is organizing the 17th Lucania Film Festival in Pisticci and Matera. The event, which has welcomed 12,500 directors since its inception, every year shows a selection of independent films from around the world. Besides its international competition of short and feature …

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TURKEY / Solidarity observed by women film-makers in Istanbul

From March 12th to 20th Istanbul hosts the 14th Filmmor Women’s Film Festival: this year’s theme “Solidarity between women keeps women alive”. This political event, featuring films from national and international women directors, wants to encourage and increase the presence of women in film and other media. 70 films from 30 countries were selected from …

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ITALY / The CMCA partner of the Sarnico Short Film Festival

At the beginning of June the festival of short films “C’è tempo per…..L’integrazione” will celebrate its tenth anniversary with public screenings in Sarnico and Bergamo. All the films chosen deal with aspects of integration, showing individuals, families or whole populations from every culture and nationality. The films will be divided into two categories: one for …

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