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EUROMEDITERRANEAN / Review of the awards at year’s end
Apart from PriMed, which ended on December 12th in Marseille, several Mediterranean festivals gave their awards over the past few days. Recap from Annaba, Brussels and Marrakesh. On its return after a long break, the Annaba Festival of Mediterranean Film gave its Golden Annab to a Palestinian black comedy, “Dégradé”, directed by Arab and Tarzan …
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IVORY COAST / North Africa wins 3 awards at Trophées Francophones
On December 5th the Palace of Culture in Abidjan hosted the 3rd Francophone Film Award ceremony, rewarding the best films from the 80 member countries of the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie. North African countries took three awards, including Best Drama Film for Abderrahmane Sissako‘s Franco-Mauritanian production “Timbuktu”. Tunisian Kaouther Ben Hania won the Best …
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MOROCCO / In 2016 Medi 1 TV will re-focus on news
The private channel Medi 1 TV, which until now has offered generalist programming, will become a news and discussion channel from 2016. In an interview with the Medias24 website its CEO, Abbas Azzouzi, detailed the reasons this reorientation. “Since the Arab Spring, several mainstream news channels have lost their lustre. Moroccan, North African and African …
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TUNISIA / The Tanit d’Or for “L’Orchestre des Aveugles”
Despite the curfew imposed in Tunisia after the attack of November 24th, the Carthage Film Festival managed to run its course as scheduled. The audience responded well, despite the tense atmosphere, as evidenced by the success of “Much Loved”, attracting 1,600 spectators for its screening and winning the Jury Prize. Another Moroccan film, Mohamed Mouftakir‘s …
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TUNISIA / The Carthage Film Festival maintained
Despite the attack killing at least 13 people in Tunis on November 24th, the chairman of the 26th Carthage Film Festival, Ibrahim Letaïef, confirmed the festival would continue. “This is the only way to respond to these barbaric acts, “ he said. “The organizing team is currently working on re-scheduling the programme to take into …
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ALGERIA / The Annaba festival returns after 30 years
It took 30 years, but the Annaba Festival of Mediterranean Film is well and truly back. Formerly known as “Mediterranean Film Days”, the event will run from December 3rd to 9th in the coastal city of Annaba at the Azzedine Medjoubi Theatre and at the Mohamed Boudiaf Palace of Culture, under the aegis of the …
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