CMCA presents the list of films selected for PriMed 2016!

From May 23^rd to 27^th the PriMed 2016 selection jury worked at the headquarters of 2M in Casablanca to choose the films which will go through to the final phase of the festival’s 20^th edition in Marseille from November 20^th to 26^th.

The CMCA (Centre Méditerranéen de la Communication Audiovisuelle), PriMed’s organiser, received nearly 350 films from 38 countries.

The following is the official selection for PriMed 2016 :

• MEDITERRANEAN ISSUES (click here to see the synopses)
  – AUBE DORÉE, UNE AFFAIRE PERSONNELLE by Angélique KOUROUNIS
  – DAESH, PAROLES DE DÉSERTEURS by Thomas DANDOIS and François-Xavier TREGAN
  – LA GRANJA DEL PAS by Silvia MUNT
  – NAPOLISLAM by Ernesto PAGANO

• MEDITERRANEAN MEMORY (click here to see the synopses)
  – BERLUSCONI ET LA MAFIA. SCANDALES À L’ITALIENNE by Olivier TOSCER
  – FEDERICA MONTSENY, L’INDOMPTABLE by Jean-Michel RODRIGO
  – LA FABULOSA CASABLANCA by Manuel HORRILLO
  – MY OWN PRIVATE WAR by Lidija ZELOVIC

• MEDITERRANEAN ART, HERITAGE AND CULTURES (click here to see the synopses)
  – ARABIC MOVIE by Eyal SAGUI BEZAWIE and Sara TSIFRONI
  – CHŒURS EN EXIL by Nathalie ROSSETTI and Turi FINOCCHIARO
  – TISSEUSES DE RÊVES by Fatima Ithri IRHOUDANE
  – TONI CATANY. LE TEMPS ET LES CHOSES by Cesc MULET

• FIRST FILM (click here to see the synopses)
  – LES DERNIERS NOMADES by Hamdi BEN AHMED
  – LORO DI NAPOLI by Pierfrancesco LI DONNI
  – MURAT, LE GÉOGRAPHE by Samuele PELLECCHIA
  – WHEELS OF WAR by Rami KODEIH

• MEDITERRANEAN SHORT FILM
  Selection in progress

• MEDITERRANEAN MULTIMEDIA AWARD (click here to see the synopses)
  – CASQUES SUR LE FRONT Robin BRAQUET and Flavian CHARUEL
  – CHRETIENS, JUIFS, MUSULMANS: DES LIEUX SAINTS EN PARTAGE Véronique BARRAL
  – FARSELONA  Kika SERRA and Paty GODOY
  – TROUBLED WATERS  Isabelle SYLVESTRE

An extract of each film will be available very soon on the official PriMed web-site: www.primed.tv

The members of the selection jury:

Hamid AIDOUNI – Lecturer at the Abdelmalek Essaadi University – Faculty of Arts and Humanities – Cinema and broadcasting studies – Research group
Fettouma BENHAIMOUD – Head of Documentary Purchase and Production at SOREAD 2M
Amina CHAFCHAOUNI MOUSSAOUI – Head of the Broadcasting Archives project for Morocco’s Haute Autorité de la Communication Audiovisuelle (HACA)
Claire DECHAUX – INA Méditerranée
Loubna EL YOUNSI – Documentary maker at New Sky Production (ex 2M)
Valérie GERBAULT – CMCA Director general
Paule HERADES – Head of Channels and Programmes – France3 ViaStella
Tariq KHALAMI – Head of Promotion and Co-operation at the Centre Cinématographique Marocain (CCM)
Paola LANFRANCHI – CMCA PriMed co-ordinator
Monica PIZZOLI – Institutional and International Relations at Rai (Radiotelevisione Italiana)
Franco REVELLI – CMCA head of broadcasting, Internet, multimedia
Sami SADAK – Artistic Director of the musiques du monde forum at Babel Med Music

Watch in video the highlights of the pre-selection week !