News about audiovisual in Palestine
⇒ CLICK HERE to go back to the map
Directors Karim Dridi and Julien Gaertner have launched a call for participatory funding for their next documentary Hakawati, les derniers conteurs, on the platform Kiskissbankbank. If the amount reaches €10,000, that sum will be handed over to the production company Mirak Film to complete post-production and translate the dialogue from Arabic into French. The film …
Permanent link to this article: https://mediterranee-audiovisuelle.com/palestine-israel-france-only-a-few-days-left-to-help-finance-the-documentary-hakawati-les-derniers-conteurs/?lang=en
The success of Palestinian films at international festivals is undeniable: even though film production within the territory is not very abundant, the films have a high reputation. In 2017 “Ghost Hunting” won the Best Documentary Award at the Berlin International Film Festival, in 2013 Hany Abu Assad’s “Omar” won the Jury Prize in the Un …
Permanent link to this article: https://mediterranee-audiovisuelle.com/palestinian-territories-for-the-first-time-an-official-delegation-at-the-cannes-film-festival/?lang=en
From June 2nd to 11th the Ciné-Palestine festival will be running in Paris, Saint-Denis and Aubervilliers. The festival’s aim is to show the creativity and diversity of Palestinian cinema. This year’s programming is influenced by the 50th anniversary of the occupation which followed the Six-Day War in 1967, focussing on “shared views about 1967”. There …
Permanent link to this article: https://mediterranee-audiovisuelle.com/france-palestine-3rd-cine-palestine-festival/?lang=en
“In Between”, Palestinian director Maysaloun Hamoud’s first feature film, was released in French cinemas in mid-April. Although the film has been praised by international critics and won awards at several festivals (Haifa, San Sebastian, Toronto), this has not prevented the 35-year-old Palestinian film-maker, born in Budapest and raised in Dir-Hana, Israel, from receiving death threats …
Permanent link to this article: https://mediterranee-audiovisuelle.com/israel-palestine-in-between-a-first-film-by-maysaloun-hamoud/?lang=en
Abdelhatif Belhaj and Lolita Bourdet are appealing for crowd-funding to finance the post-production of their documentary “La pêche et l’olive”, filmed in Seine-Saint-Denis and Palestine. The film follows nine teenagers living in a district of Montreuil (a “difficult” suburb of Paris), who go to the village of Beit Sira, near Ramallah in Palestine as part …
Permanent link to this article: https://mediterranee-audiovisuelle.com/fra-pal-documentary-looking-for-crowd-funding/?lang=en
Two Frenchmen living in Marseille, Youri Cayron, an artist and Romain Rivalan, production manager and cameraman, are currently finishing “Ask The Birds”, a feature film shot in Israel and the West Bank. Editing is now complete and a crowd-funding campaign has been launched to find finance for the post-production. During two trips in 2014 and …
Permanent link to this article: https://mediterranee-audiovisuelle.com/middle-east-project-for-a-film-about-urban-planning-and-identity/?lang=en
According to Reuters, on March 12th the European company Eutelsat stopped transmitting the Palestinian channel Al Aqsa TV, after a telephone conversation the previous day between the French President, François Hollande and the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu . The channel was nevertheless back on air shortly afterwards on other networks, including the Egyptian Nilesat. …
Permanent link to this article: https://mediterranee-audiovisuelle.com/palestinian-territories-eutelsat-pulls-the-plug-on-hamas-channel/?lang=en
