The Mediterranean Documentary First Film Festival took place at the Ibn Rachiq Maison de la Culture in Tunis from December 26th to 29th. The festival was created by Cinéma Documentaire Tunisien, a very active association promoting documentary cinema, also organizing DocuMed – Regards documentaires méditerranéens. This latter festival specialises in new documentaries from the countries …
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Doc House, an independent organisation for encouraging and promoting documentaries in Tunisia and North Africa, was opened at the end of October by a group of Tunisian directors and academicians. Soumaya Bouallegui, a film director and Doc House’ executive director, said the goal is to encourage both the distribution of documentaries and networking among professionals. …
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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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The 13th Festival International du Film Oriental de Genève (FIFOG) ran from April 21st to 29th. During the event the organisers devoted a day to the Tunisian embassy’s cultural activity in Switzerland. This was marked by the screening-discussion of two Tunisian films in the FIFOG competition: Elyes Baccar’s “Tunis By Night”, in the presence of …
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Between April 17th to 22nd the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image and the Cinémathèque tunisienne organised a series of screenings called “Preservation of the work of Mohamed Malas”. Born in 1945, this well-known Syrian director graduated from the Ecole normale at Damascus. He began his film career in the 1970s in Russia. In …
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The Haute Autorité Indépendante de la Communication Audiovisuelle (HAICA) has announced the government shortlist of candidates for the position of Tunisian television’s CEO. There are three of them: Najoua Rahoui, Mahmoud Bouned and Abdelmajid Mraïhi. The latter has been acting chairman since June 2017. While awaiting the government’s final selection, made with HAICA’s input, the …
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On February 13th Morocco’s media watch-dog, the Haute Autorité Indépendante de la Communication Audiovisuelle (HAICA) and government representative Mofdi Mseddi, met to discuss broadcasting issues. It was agreed that Radio Zitouna would be permanently attached to Radio Tunisienne, that the government would give more support to regional and associative media, and finally that transparency over …
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