The Time It Takes [+lee también:
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entrevista: Francesca Comencini
ficha de la película] by Italy’s Francesca Comencini and The Mohican [+lee también:
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entrevista: Frédéric Farrucci
ficha de la película] by French director Frédéric Farrucci are two films recently well-received in Venice which are set to open and close the 46th Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival (running 18 – 26 October), respectively. As per usual, Cinemed (which attracted 62,000 viewers last year) is set to unfurl an incredibly generous programme consisting of approximately 200 titles which illustrate the full diversity and dynamism of the 7th art from across the entire Mediterranean basin. Included within the event are tributes to and in the presence of Italian actress Alba Rohrwacher (across 13 films), French actor-turned-director Reda Kateb (across 12 films, including his first directorial effort Sur un fil [+lee también:
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In the first instance, eight fiction feature films will be duking it out for the 2024 Antigone d'Or: Vermiglio, The Mountain Bride [+lee también:
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entrevista: Maura Delpero
ficha de la película] by Italy’s Maura Delpero (awarded the Grand Prize in Venice and her country’s candidate for the 2025 Best International Film Oscar), The Wailing [+lee también:
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entrevista: Pedro Martín-Calero e Isab…
ficha de la película] by Spain’s Pedro Martín-Calero (recently awarded the Best Director trophy in San Sebastián), Meat [+lee también:
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entrevista: Dimitris Nakos
ficha de la película] by Greek director Dimitris Nakos (screened in Toronto Discovery), To A Land Unknown [+lee también:
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entrevista: Mahdi Fleifel
ficha de la película] by the Danish-Palestinian filmmaker Mahdi Fleifel (discovered in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight), The Virgin and Child [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by the Belgian director of Kurdish origin Binevsa Berivan, Aïcha [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Tunisia’s Mehdi M. Barsaoui (unveiled in Venice’s Orizzonti line-up), Panopticon [+lee también:
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entrevista: George Sikharulidze
ficha de la película] by Georgia’s George Sikharulidze (well-received in competition in Karlovy Vary) and Life by Turkey’s Zeki Demirkubuz.

In the running for the Audience Award, meanwhile, are seven feature films selected for the Panorama section: the documentaries The Brink of Dreams [+lee también:
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entrevista: Nada Riyadh, Ayman El Amir
ficha de la película] by Egypt’s Nada Riyadh and Ayman El Amir (discovered in Critics’ Week), The Words Women Spoke One Day by French filmmaker Raphaël Pillosio (triumphant in the Cinéma du Réel Festival) and Diaries from Lebanon [+lee también:
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entrevista: Myriam El Hajj
ficha de la película] by Lebanese director Myriam El Hajj (unveiled in the Berlinale’s Panorama line-up), and the fiction films Little Loves [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Spain’s Celia Rico Clavellino (rewarded in Malaga), Red Path [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by French-Tunisian director Lotfi Achour (screened in Locarno’s Cinéastes du Présent line-up), Le Lac bleu by Morocco’s Daoud Aoulad-Syad, and Fidan by Turkey’s Aycil Yeltan.

The Documentaries Competition is set to pit eight titles against one another: Green Line [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Sylvie Ballyot (crowned Best First Film in Locarno), Le boxeur chancelant by France’s Lo Thivolle, Belgian production The Roller, the Life, the Fight [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Italy’s Elettra Bisogno and Palestine’s Hazem Alqaddi, (Y)our Mother [+lee también:
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entrevista: Samira El Mouzghibati
ficha de la película] by Belgian-Moroccan filmmaker Samira El Mouzghibati, Blueberry Dreams by Georgia’s Elena Mikaberidze, 1489 [+lee también:
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entrevista: Shoghakat Vardanyan
ficha de la película] by Armenia’s Shoghakat Vardanyan, Les Signes de vie (Segnali di vita) by Italy’s Leandro Picarella, and La Guêpe et l’Orchidée by Tunisia’s Saber Zammouri.

Countless premieres (almost all in the presence of their directors) are primed and ready to round off the Cinemed line-up, including films hailing directly from San Sebastián’s competition (such as Spanish director Albert Serra’s documentary Afternoons of Solitude [+lee también:
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entrevista: Albert Serra
ficha de la película], which scooped the Golden Shell for Best Film, and Costa Gavras’ Last Breath [+lee también:
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And as if that wasn’t enough, there’s also a focus on "the audacity of young Moroccan cinema", a Luigi Comencini retrospective in 23 films, special screenings (one of which dedicated to Yannick Kergoat’s documentary series Le siècle de Costa Gavras), a short films overview and competition, a masterclass by Nicolas Seydoux (Gaumont), screenings dedicated to younger audiences, a "night in hell" (in five films) and, between 22 and 24 October, the professional Cinemed Meetings sidebar, on which Cineuropa will shed more light at a later date.