On the eve of the 69th Cannes Film Festival, from May 11th to 22nd, we present a preview of the Mediterranean films competing in the various categories. There are only three Mediterranean film-makers in the official selection, but their chances of winning the Palme d’Or are high. Especially for Pedro Almodovar, a regular in Cannes, …
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Running from May 2nd to 7th and organised by the Association de Culture par l’Education et l’Audiovisuel (ACEA), the 8th Agadir International Documentary Festival (FIDADOC) presented its awards at a ceremony at the Town Hall. The “Nouzha Drissi” Grand Prix went to Liubov Durakova and Alisa Kovalenko’s Polish-Ukrainian “Alisa in Warland”: the self-portrait of a …
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From April 27th to 30th, Regard Sud, an association based in Lyon, is organising the 16th Cinémas du Sud festival, focussing on North African and Middle Eastern films. Over 4 days, 9 films from 8 countries of the Arab world will be screened at the Institut Lumière. The Tunisan director Ferid Boughedir, will be this …
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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. …
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For the 11th year the association Indigènes Films is renewing its Panorama des Cinémas du Maghreb et du Moyen-Orient (PCMMO) in Paris and Seine-Saint-Denis. The 2016 selection of 43 films, dramas and documentaries, long or short, will be screened from March 29th to April 17th. In troubled periods like the one we are living though …
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2016 marks the 11th anniversary of the first Samir Kassir Award for Press Freedom in the Lebanon and Middle East. On Monday February 8th Christina Lassen, the European Union’s ambassador to the Lebanon, launched the 2016 edition of the Samir Kassir Award for Press Freedom. Created in 2006 by the European Union, this award commemorates …
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The film “Opération Maillot” was shown at the 8th Menar Film Festival. Directed by the Algerian Okasha Touita, it’s about a junior French army officer, Henri Maillot, who deserted during the Algerian war for independence, taking with him an important stock of arms for the Algerian guerilla fighters.
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