"Cinema and the Arab Spring" on the menu at the Tétouan Festival of Mediterranean Film
The 18th International Festival of Mediterranean Film Tétouan (Northern Morocco, 24-31 March) proposes, for this year's event, a special program on "Cinema and the Arab Spring", the organizers of this cultural event announced with the participation of 16 Mediterranean countries.
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On this occasion documentaries about the uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt and Syria will be screened and followed by discussions about the "Arab Spring" in these countries followed a tribute that will be delivered to Syrian artists, says the organisers.
The jury for this year's event will be chaired, in the feature film category by artistic director Peter Scarlet of the United States, Chairman of the Abu Dhabi festival, former president of the San Francisco and former CEO of the French Cinematheque .
Moroccan director, Noureddine Lakhmari, author of the feature film "Casa Negra", a film noir about Casablanca chair, meanwhile, the jury short film while the director of the International Documentary Festival of Madrid, Antonio Delgado will the head of the "Documentary Jury".
12 feature films, 15 shorts and 12 documentaries, produced between 2010 and 2012, and "representing the diversity and rich cultural and film of the Mediterranean" is the festival program.
It will be marked by tributes which will be made to filmmakers and actors in Mediterranean countries and by the organizing of panel discussions and a symposium on "cinema in the digital age".
Besides the grand prize of the Festival, the films in competition will compete for the following awards: Special Jury Award, Best Actor Award, Best Actress, Audience Award and the Prix Azzeddine Meddour for the first work, introduced in honor of the Algerian director, died in 2000.
Azzeddine Meddour was awarded the "Award for first fiction" (1999) for the Amazigh language film "The mountain of Baya".
In the previous edition, two Algerian films "Essaha" (Place, 2010), Dahmane Ouzid in the feature film category and "Garagouz" (2010) of Abdenour Zahzah in the short film genre had been rewarded by the Festival jury.
The first had obtained the "Jury Special Mention" while the latter had received the "Special Jury Prize" of the festival which was awarded the "Grand Prix" in Moroccan feature film "The Mosque" by director Daoud Oulad Sayed.
Created in 1985 by a group of film enthusiasts who gathered in the Association of Friends of the Cinema of Tetouan, the International Festival of Mediterranean Film of Tetouan has set standards for the promotion and development of films from Mediterranean countries.
The jury for this year's event will be chaired, in the feature film category by artistic director Peter Scarlet of the United States, Chairman of the Abu Dhabi festival, former president of the San Francisco and former CEO of the French Cinematheque .
Moroccan director, Noureddine Lakhmari, author of the feature film "Casa Negra", a film noir about Casablanca chair, meanwhile, the jury short film while the director of the International Documentary Festival of Madrid, Antonio Delgado will the head of the "Documentary Jury".
12 feature films, 15 shorts and 12 documentaries, produced between 2010 and 2012, and "representing the diversity and rich cultural and film of the Mediterranean" is the festival program.
It will be marked by tributes which will be made to filmmakers and actors in Mediterranean countries and by the organizing of panel discussions and a symposium on "cinema in the digital age".
Besides the grand prize of the Festival, the films in competition will compete for the following awards: Special Jury Award, Best Actor Award, Best Actress, Audience Award and the Prix Azzeddine Meddour for the first work, introduced in honor of the Algerian director, died in 2000.
Azzeddine Meddour was awarded the "Award for first fiction" (1999) for the Amazigh language film "The mountain of Baya".
In the previous edition, two Algerian films "Essaha" (Place, 2010), Dahmane Ouzid in the feature film category and "Garagouz" (2010) of Abdenour Zahzah in the short film genre had been rewarded by the Festival jury.
The first had obtained the "Jury Special Mention" while the latter had received the "Special Jury Prize" of the festival which was awarded the "Grand Prix" in Moroccan feature film "The Mosque" by director Daoud Oulad Sayed.
Created in 1985 by a group of film enthusiasts who gathered in the Association of Friends of the Cinema of Tetouan, the International Festival of Mediterranean Film of Tetouan has set standards for the promotion and development of films from Mediterranean countries.
Source : https://www.marocafrik.com/english/Cinema-and-the-...