20/05/2013

They Are the Dogs, a tragic, poetic fable in Casablanca past and present

Moroccan director Hicham Lasri's second feature premieres in Cannes' ACID section

After Nabil Ayouch's God's Horses screening at Cannes' Un Certain Regard last year, Moroccan cinema is back on the Croisette this year with two films: Brahim Fritah's Playground Chronicles in the Cannes Cinéphiles section, and They Are the Dogs,...

Events and Festivals, Industry, Morocco

19/05/2013

MADE in MED talents arrive in Cannes

Meet them at the Short Film Corner from May 19 to 24!

The three Arab filmmakers who won Euromed Audiovisual's MADE in MED short film contest have arrived in Cannes to promote their films at the festival's Short Film Corner! At the festival, filmmakers Ahmed Hermassi from Tunisia, Mohamad El-Wassify...

Events and Festivals, Egypt, Tunisia, Syria , Programme Activities

17/05/2013

Directors Fortnight invited to Ari Folman’s Congress

After returning empty-handed from screening Waltz with Bashir at the Cannes Film Festival'sofficial competition in 2008, Israeli director Ari Folman is back on the Croisette for the opening of the 2013 Directors' Fortnight. And his last film is...

Events and Festivals, Israel

07/05/2013

Euromed Audiovisual brings Arab transmedia projects to Brussels

Lebanese and Moroccan filmmakers to attend the Millenium film fest this June

Two Arab transmedia projects, developed during the Euromed Audiovisual-funded Dia Sud Med training initiative, are to be presented during Brussels' Millenium international documentary film festival from May 31 to June 9. Euromed Audiovisual is...

Events and Festivals, Euromed Audiovisual News, Grant Project Activities

30/04/2013

South Mediterranean films at Brussels Millenium doc film fest

South Mediterranean documentaries and web-doc projects from May 31 to June 9

A Panorama of Mediterranean Films is to be held at the 5th Brussels Millenium Documentary Film Festival this year, thanks to a partnership with Euromed Audiovisual. A good selection of films from the South Mediterranean region have been selected...

Events and Festivals

30/04/2013

Hergla Film Meetings calls for films

Submission deadline: June 30

The 9th Hergla Film Meetings or Cinematographic Framework of Hergla is to take place from August 16 to 21. Held each year since 2005 by the Africa-Mediterranean Cultural Association in the small town of Hergla on the Tunisian coast, the cinematic...

Opportunities, Events and Festivals, Tunisia

26/04/2013

South Mediterranean films go to Cannes

Palestinian, Israeli, Moroccan and Tunisian films at Cannes from May 15 to 26

Southern Mediterranean films are off to the Cannes Film Festival to rub shoulders with the heavyweights of the world's film industry. From May 15 to 26, no less than eight films from Tunisia, Palestine, Israel and Morocco are to head to the...

Events and Festivals, Morocco, Palestine, Israel, Tunisia

24/04/2013

Al Jazeera awards Palestinian, Egyptian documentaries in Doha

Palestinian-German filmmaker nabs top prize, but also awards for films from Egypt

The 9th Al Jazeera Documentary Film Festival wrapped up in Doha on Sunday, with its top award handed to a Palestinian-German filmmaker who is still in film school. The Golden Award for a feature-length film went to Pary el-Qalqili's first...

Events and Festivals, Palestine, Egypt

22/04/2013

Sleepless Nights: amnesia of the Lebanese civil war

Eliane Raheb's sensitive documentary is expected out in Lebanon this June

Sleepless Nights is, above all, the story of an encounter between Eliane Raheb (the director of Haida Lebanon), Assaad Chaftari, former head of the Lebanese Forces militia, and Maryam Saiidi, the mother of communist fighter Maher Kassir who...

Events and Festivals, Lebanon

22/04/2013

Two Palestinian titles to compete at Cannes

Hany Abu-Assad's Omar at Un Certain Regard, and a Gazan short in the competition

Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad's latest narrative feature film, Omar, has been selected for the Un Certain Regard sidebar section at the Cannes International Film Festival in France from May 15 to 26. Omar, the tale of three childhood...

Events and Festivals, Palestine