News about audiovisuel in MAGHREB Region
Abdelhamid Bouchnak’s “Papillon d’Or” (Golden Butterfly) has been chosen to represent Tunisia at the 2022 Oscars, competing for the Best International Feature Film Award. The film was selected on October 12th at a committee-meeting chaired by Slim Dargachi, director general of the CNCI (Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image). “A sort of psychic reading or even …
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On September 27th, Favvs, Algeria ’s first virtual festival of videos to increase public awareness, was launched in El Kala National Park. Organized by the digital agency Elevatîn, the event hopes to bring amateur and professional content creators together to create projects of public interest: for this first year, the theme is eco-tourism. “Favvs is …
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The Digital Portal of the Annaba Short Film Festival in Algeria and the Mizda International Short Film Festival in Libya have signed a cooperation agreement to “support and promote the work of young talents making short films”. The agreement is to organise joint internships and workshops for film training and short film production techniques. More …
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Tunisian director Erige Sehiri’s “Under the Fig Trees” won no fewer than eight awards at the 78th Venice Film Festival’s Final Cut Workshop. Two of them were sponsored by partners of the Arab Cinema Centre, Mad Solutions and the ElGouna Film Festival, and these will help market, advertise and distribute the film. Since 2013 Final …
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Madame Prod has launched a project call for women directors needing finance for their first feature. Madame Prod and “Le cinéma au féminin” Created in 2019 by Franco-Tunisian film-maker Ismahane Lahmar, Madame Prod defines itself as “an audiovisual production entity with social and unifying values.” Supported by the Drosos Foundation, the Goethe-Institut and the Institut Français de Tunisie, Madame …
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On June 24th the Ministry of Art and Culture launched a competition for documentary films with the theme “Documentary film…memory and image meet” to document and describe Algeria’s cultural wealth. The competition is open to documentary film-makers of all ages, amateur or professional. There are 3 awards: Best Screenplay, Best Director and Best Documentary. The films …
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The 16th Festival international du film oriental de Genève (Fifog) was held from June 21st to 27th. “Hope” was this year’s catchword, with the objective of promoting film, diversity and intercultural dialogue in the world through 50 films from 20 different countries. “Papicha” by Franco-Algerian director Mounia Meddour won the competition’s most prestigious award: the Golden Fifog …
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