The selection of films for the 29th PriMed – International Festival of Mediterranean Documentary and Reportage – is now available! PriMed returns to Marseilles this year from 29 November to 6 December. With 25 documentaries an reports, the festival has established itself as a leading event devoted entirely to documentary films and reports on the …
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In a recent report, PROFILM, an association of production companies, revealed a 33.6% drop in foreign film investment in Spain in 2024. The reason for this decline? Spain has apparently become less competitive than its European neighbours. The report, summarised by Cineuropa, shows that investment fell from €197.4 million in 2023 to €129.9 million in …
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Moroccan director Zhor Fassi-Fihri has begun filming her new feature film, L’Homme des Signes. Co-written with Jérôme Cohen-Olivar, this dramatised biography retraces the life of Mehdi Qotbi (born 1951), a painter and the president of the National Museum Foundation. The film-makers chose to combine real and fictional elements to tell his story. Filming will take …
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The 4th International Reality Film Festival was held in Tangier from May 14th to 18th. Organized by a Moroccan association called Les Lions du nord pour la culture et l’art, the festival features a professional short film competition. This year twelve films were presented, including Closure by Mooney Abu Samra (Jordan), Une Histoire de Vacances …
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Palestinian directors Arab and Tarzan Nasser won the Best Director Award in the Un Certain Regard category for their film Once Upon a Time in Gaza. A dark comedy with a sharp social commentary, Once Upon a Time in Gaza is about a young student, Yahya, who forms an unlikely friendship with an outgoing but …
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On May 5th Donald Trump announced online that he was implementing a 100% tariff on American films shot outside the country. “We want films made in America” he declared. While the details remain unclear, the tax is worrying the audiovisual sector in many countries, including Morocco where, according to Atlas Studio, American productions represent 30% …
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Shot in Morocco, Olivier Laxe’ Franco-Spanish film Sirat has been selected for the official competition of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. The story is set in Morocco’s Jbel Saghro mountains where Louis, accompanied by his young son, is searching for his daughter who disappeared at an electronic music festival. Their search takes them across the …
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