“Mediterranean Art, Heritage and Cultures” prize rewards the documentary film lasting more than 30 minutes, which highlights the region’s artistic life (music, plastic arts, live theatre, visual arts), its heritage (sites, monuments, works of art, archaeology, architecture) and other instances of Mediterranean culture (folklore and traditions). Here are the films chosen to take part in the 22nd PriMed, le Festival de la Méditerranée en images, from November 25th to December 1st 2018 in Marseille:
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AU-DELÀ DE L’OBJECTIF : LACROIX, DALÌ (Beyond the Lens: Lacroix, Dalì)
By Céline FORMENTIN and Antonio PEREZ MOLERO
56 minutes, 2018
Inicia Films, Corporació Catalana de Mitjans Audiovisuals
On August 8th 1970 Marc and Thérèse Lacroix, a couple of photographers, were celebrating their wedding anniversary in Cadaqués. A chance meeting with the painter Salvador Dalì transformed their life forever.
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HISTOIRES D’ISRAËL (Stories about Israel)
By William KAREL and Blanche FINGER
53 minutes, 2017
Production: Roche Productions, Arte
70 years after the Hebrew State was created, ten emblematic Israeli writers (including Amos Oz, David Grossman, Avraham B. Yehoshua) draw up a “state of the nation”: its values, its fears, its contradictions. The writers draw on the permanent tension in which they live as material for their work, which thus reflects all their country’s problems: the weight of the past, the Zionist project, the Palestinians, religion, the army, social tensions, territorial fractures. An original and subjective portrait of Israel, where literature helps us understand geopolitics.
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LES ULYSSES DU 21ÈME SIÈCLE (21st Century Ulysses)
By Lidia PERALTA GARCIA
71 minutes, 2017
Production : Producciones Damira
Morocco is the country with one of the highest rates of emigration in the world. An estimated three million Moroccans live in other countries. Since the first internal migrations in the 1950’s from rural areas to the towns, post-independence Moroccan cinema has recorded and accompanied all the major migratory moments: setting sail in leaking, flimsy boats, life in Europe, the return to Morocco. This documentary, “Les Ulysses du 21ème siècle”, looks at migration through Moroccan films.
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THREE THRESHOLDS BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH
By Asuman ATAKUL FIRTINA
61 minutes, 2017
Production : TRT Turkish Radio and Television Corporation
Birth, marriage and death are three stages of life which every community in the world celebrates. Rites organised according to specific cultural codes mean the individual feels part of a group at the important moments of his life. This documentary looks at Turkey’s rapidly changing ancestral customs, traditions and rituals.
SPECIAL PriMed 2018 SELECTION FILE
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“Mediterranean Challenges” category
“Mediterranean Memory” category
“First Documentary Film” category
“Mediterranean Short Doc” category
Mediterranean Young People’s Award
