The 12th Catalonia Festival of Arab and Mediterranean Film opened on November 8th in Barcelona with the screening of Daily life in a Syrian village, a film by the great director and writer Omar Amiralay. This documentary made in 1974 with the playwright Saadallah Wannous had been banned in Syria. By showing the daily life …
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Carthage Film Festival closed on November 10th in Tunis. The Tunisian film Fatwa, directed by Mahmoud Ben Mahmoud and co-produced by the Dardenne brothers, won the festival’s most prestigious award, the Golden Tanit for a Feature Film. 13 films competed in the official competition. Fatwa also won Best Actor Award for Ahmed Hafiane’s performance. The …
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Nabil Ayouch began filming his new film Positive School in Casablanca on July 16th. Ayouch was “the discovery” of the 1999 Berlinale Forum with his first feature, Mektoub. Two years later the Franco-Moroccan film-maker won several awards for Ali Zaoua, prince de la rue. Two of his films have been shown at Cannes: Les cheveaux …
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The audience at the 36th Turin International Film Festival will have the privilege of being the first to view Nanni Moretti’s latest film, Santiago, Italia. It will be released in Italian cinemas a few days later, on December 6th. The Turin Festival is an event Moretti knows well, since he was its director from 2007 …
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The 24th Franco-Arab Film Festival was held from June 24th to July 1st in Amman. 11 films from the Middle East (Iraq, Jordan, Palestine) and North Africa (Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia) were screened, as well as some French films. This year the themes were migration, justice and freedom. The festival is organized by the Institut …
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The Mediterranean Young People’s Award is based on the desire of high school students from all around the Mediterranean to meet, share their ideas, debate and vote together for a films that they have previously discovered and watched in the classroom. A large space of Euro-Mediterranean citizenship is being built, in which more than a …
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Rai Ragazzi, the children’s department of Italy’s national broadcaster, has launched a new initiative for young animation creators, students or recent graduates. The channel has launched a competition “L’ora di tuffarsi” (Time to dive) and the best programmes will be announced on September 3rd. The projects will be reviewed by Rai Ragazzi’s animation and television …
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