L'immensa diversità del cinema mediterraneo al Festival Cinemed
- La 46ma edizione del festival si svolgerà a Montpellier dal 18 al 26 ottobre, con 200 titoli in programma, tra cui otto lungometraggi che ambiscono al premio Antigone d'Or
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The Time It Takes [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Francesca Comencini
scheda film] by Italy’s Francesca Comencini and The Mohican [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Frédéric Farrucci
scheda film] 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 [+leggi anche:
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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 [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Maura Delpero
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intervista: Pedro Martín-Calero, Isabe…
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scheda film] by Greek director Dimitris Nakos (screened in Toronto Discovery), To A Land Unknown [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Mahdi Fleifel
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scheda film] by the Belgian director of Kurdish origin Binevsa Berivan, Aïcha [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Tunisia’s Mehdi M. Barsaoui (unveiled in Venice’s Orizzonti line-up), Panopticon [+leggi anche:
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intervista: George Sikharulidze
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In the running for the Audience Award, meanwhile, are seven feature films selected for the Panorama section: the documentaries The Brink of Dreams [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Nada Riyadh, Ayman El Amir
scheda film] 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 [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Myriam El Hajj
scheda film] by Lebanese director Myriam El Hajj (unveiled in the Berlinale’s Panorama line-up), and the fiction films Little Loves [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Spain’s Celia Rico Clavellino (rewarded in Malaga), Red Path [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] 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 [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] 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 [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Italy’s Elettra Bisogno and Palestine’s Hazem Alqaddi, (Y)our Mother [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Samira El Mouzghibati
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intervista: Shoghakat Vardanyan
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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 [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Albert Serra
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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.
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