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 thousand students from different countries now participate. Each year, high school classes wishing to participate in this project with their teachers. Here are the films chosen to take part in the 22nd PriMed, le Festival de la Méditerranée en images, from November 25th to December 1st 2018 in Marseille:
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GURS, HISTOIRE ET MÉMOIRE (Gurs, History and Memory)
By Veronica SÁENZ GIMEMEZ
56 minutes, 2018
Production: Fernando YARZA, Anabel BELTRÁN, Asociacion Fénix Aragón
Gurs is more than a place. Located in France at the foot of the Pyrenees, near the town of Oloron-Sainte-Marie, this refugee camp was built for people fleeing Spain (Spanish Republicans, International Brigade fighters) when General Franco took over power. During the Second World War Gurs became an internment camp. “Gurs, History and Memory” painstakingly records the oral history of those who spent time there, offering recognition to the victims of brutality and asking us to remember them all.
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LE GRAND SAPHIR, UNE RÉVOLTE ORDINAIRE (Big Sapphire, an Ordinary Revolt)
By Jeremi STADLER
56 minutes, 2018
Production: Satellite Multimedia
This film is about several public spirited waste-collection initiatives, both at sea and on land. The starting point is Emmanuel Laurin’s initiative, known as “The Great Sapphire” and combining protection of the environment with physical endurance. For nearly 14 days Laurin swam along 120 km of coast-line, collecting larger pieces of waste to raise public awareness of the critical state of pollution in the Mediterranean. The film also shows the way ecological activism has evolved: blaming others is now a thing of the past, these new whistle-blowers use a proactive and positive approach. They prove to us that, although our societies are collectively responsible for the terrible state of the environment, each of us can and must act every day to improve it.
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LES AMOUREUX DES BANCS PUBLICS – LA RUE QUI RÉSISTE AVEC L’ART (Lovers of public benches – resisting through street art)
By Gaia VIANELLO and Juan Martin BAIGORRIA
68 minutes, 2017
Production: Sunset Produzioni
Ever since the protests in December 2010, street-art has taken over public spaces in Tunisia. They have become places where artistic and cultural creations directly address citizens. Dance companies, theatre companies and film clubs are using Tunisian squares, medinas and markets as new performance areas, accessible to everyone. By following various collectives such as Zwewla, Mass’Art and many others, this documentary shows that art is every person’s duty. Speaking to everyone, especially to younger generations, it has the power to awaken consciences and mobilize a lot of people to fight infringements of civil liberties and extremist rhetoric.
SPECIAL PriMed 2018 SELECTION FILE
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“Mediterranean Challenges” category
“Mediterranean Memory” category
“Mediterranean Art, Heritage and Cultures” category
“First Documentary Film” category
“Mediterranean Short Doc” category
