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TUNISIA / “Papillon d’Or” chosen by the CNCI to represent Tunisia at the 94th Oscars

Papillon d'Or

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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TUNISIA / “Under the Fig Trees” wins multiple awards at the 78th Venice Film Festival

Under The Fig Trees

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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TUNISIA / Madame Prod launches a project call to women directors

Madame Prod

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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TUNISIA / The 35th FIFAK postponed again to August 14th 2021

35e FIFAK

The 35th Festival International du Film Amateur de Kélibia (FIFAK), which was first going to take place last year, then this year from August 7th to 14th, has had to be postponed yet again. Organized by the Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image (CNCI) and the Fédération Tunisienne des Cinéastes Amateurs (FTCA), Tunisia’s oldest film festival – created in 1964 – …

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TUNISIA / Registration for the 32nd Carthage Cinematographic Days open until August 15th

32e JCC

Created in 1966, the 32nd Carthage Cinematographic Days (JCC) is scheduled from October 30th to November 6th, 2021 in Tunis. The call for applications is open for short and feature-length dramas, animation and documentary films from Africa and the Arab world. 13 Tanits, the JCC awards, will go to the best films and best actors in the competition. …

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FRANCE TUNISIA / Tunisian and French public broadcasters to set up a twinning project

Établissement de la Télévision Tunisienne

The Établissement de la Télévision Tunisienne (ETT) has asked a consortium of French public broadcasters, led by France Médias Monde and including France Télévisions, Radio France, the Institut National de l’Audiovisuel (INA) and Expertise France to join a twinning project funded by the European Commission. Starting this spring for a period of 24 months, the idea behind the project is to support Tunisian television in …

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TUNISIA EGYPT / Tunisia is guest of honour at the first Alexandria Francophone Film Festival

FAFF

Tunisia is the guest of honour at the first Alexandria Francophone Film Festival (FAFF), organized from June 18th to 23rd. The Festival will be held in the famous “Bibliotheca Alexandrina” in partnership with the French Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), the Fondation des Arts de la Culture et des médias and the Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image (CNCI). The …

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