“Mediterranean Memories” prize rewards the documentary lasting more than 30 minutes, which – with or without archives – most successfully places in a present-day context historical events concerning the Mediterranean, stories of men and women, whether individual or collective, or places of symbolism and memory. 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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FRIENDS FOES
By Sead KRESEVLJAKOVIC and Emir ZUMBUL KAPETANOVIC
51 minutes, 2017
Production: Al Jazeera Balkans, Alhemija Film
Dane and Daut faced each other in the 1990’s during the war in Bosnia. Both were on the front line during the Bosnian Serb army’s attack on a Bosnian village near Srebrenica. Daut fired at Dane and assumed he’d killed him. Years later, crossing Dane’s path by chance, Daut discovered that his “victim” had survived. The starting point of their friendship. Today, even though the scars of war are deep and have left their mark in the Srebrenica region, Dane and Daut are working together to survive, in a difficult economic situation which still divides Bosnia, two decades after the war.
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LES PIEDS-NOIRS D’ALGÉRIE, UNE HISTOIRE FRANÇAISE (Pieds-noirs of Algeria, a French Story)
By Jean-François DELASSUS
75 minutes, 2017
Production: Roche Productions
In 1962, when Algeria declared independence after a civil war which had torn the country apart, nearly a million French people living in Algeria were forced to leave. Leaving the land where they were born, these men, women and their children arrived in France, a “fatherland” which most of them scarcely knew and where they were not expected. Who were they? What was their life like on the other side of the Mediterranean? Under what conditions did they return to metropolitan France, how did they manage to integrate? Through the testimonies of people who came back to France, of Algerians and historians, another look at the little-known history of these “Pieds-noirs” from Algeria.
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MISSING FETINE
By Yeliz SHUKRI
75 minutes, 2017
Production: Tetraktys Films, Cyprus Cinema Advisory Committee
Forced to marry at a very young age, Fetine Memish had to live in a foreign country and never saw her family or her homeland again. Her fate, like that of thousands of other girls exiled in similar circumstances, remained a mystery. Until the day her brother’s granddaughter embarked on a serious investigation to find her.
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THE OSLO DIARIES
By Mor LOUSHY and Daniel SIVAN
98 minutes, 2018
Production: Medalia Productions, Intuitive Pictures Productions
In 1992, when Israeli-Palestinian relations were at a very low point and any communication was punishable by prison, a small group of Israelis and Palestinians gathered in Oslo, secretly and outside any legal framework. Although these meetings, known today as the Oslo Accords, have changed the Middle East forever, their only trace is the journals held by the negotiators.
SPECIAL PriMed 2018 SELECTION FILE
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“Mediterranean Challenges” category
“Mediterranean Art, Heritage and Cultures” category
“First Documentary Film” category
“Mediterranean Short Doc” category
Mediterranean Young People’s Award
