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LEBANON / 11th anniversary of the Samir Kassir Award

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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EUROMEDITERRANEAN / Review of the awards at year’s end

Apart from PriMed, which ended on December 12th in Marseille, several Mediterranean festivals gave their awards over the past few days. Recap from Annaba, Brussels and Marrakesh. On its return after a long break, the Annaba Festival of Mediterranean Film gave its Golden Annab to a Palestinian black comedy, “Dégradé”, directed by Arab and Tarzan …

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IVORY COAST / North Africa wins 3 awards at Trophées Francophones

On December 5th the Palace of Culture in Abidjan hosted the 3rd Francophone Film Award ceremony, rewarding the best films from the 80 member countries of the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie. North African countries took three awards, including Best Drama Film for Abderrahmane Sissako‘s Franco-Mauritanian production “Timbuktu”. Tunisian Kaouther Ben Hania won the Best …

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PriMed 2015 : The reactions of the winning directors

8 movies on 24 in competition were awarded at the end of this 19th edition of PriMed, the festival of the Mediterranean Sea in images. Here the reactions of the directors.   Cécile ALLEGRA, co-director of “Voyage en barbarie” (Documentary Grand Prix for Mediterranean Issues) “I want to thank the jury. This is a very …

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MOROCCO / In 2016 Medi 1 TV will re-focus on news

The private channel Medi 1 TV, which until now has offered generalist programming, will become a news and discussion channel from 2016. In an interview with the Medias24 website its CEO, Abbas Azzouzi, detailed the reasons this reorientation. “Since the Arab Spring, several mainstream news channels have lost their lustre. Moroccan, North African and African …

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FRANCE / INA and FMM train North African journalists

In October the Institut National de l’Audiovisuel (INA) and the Académie France Médias Monde hosted 36 journalists from North Africa for two weeks of training, according to a joint press release. Entitled “Theory and practice in France”, the session was conducted in Arabic and French to technicians and journalists under 40 years old from Morocco, …

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FRANCE / Sarah Benillouche’s films free

Sarah Benillouche‘s documentaries are available on Vimeo, and until January 1st they can be viewed free of charge. A great opportunity to view these films whose common denominator is a love of music and travel, from Cuba (“L’autre sérénade” 1997, “Le temps d’un carnaval” 2001), to Spain (“Sur un air andalou” 2005), Tunisia (“Ciao Habiba!” …

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