Tomorrow will see François Ozon’s Venetian competitor, The Stranger [+leggi anche:
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intervista: François Ozon
scheda film], opening the 47th Cinemed - Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival (17–25 October), which will, as usual, present a sweeping panorama of thriving film production from across the entire Mediterranean basin. The line-up includes 113 feature films and 119 shorts; tributes to French director Raymond Depardon (21 features and 9 shorts) and to Spanish filmmaker Fernando León de Aranoa (10 films); a spotlight on French actress Sabrina Ouazani; a retrospective dedicated to Italian maestro Dino Risi (20 films); a programme marking the centenary of Egyptian filmmaker Youssef Chahine; and the series The New Years [+leggi anche:
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scheda series] by Spain’s Rodrigo Sorogoyen. The line-up is full to bursting with tantalising discoveries, and Cannes competitor Romería [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Carla Simón
scheda film] by Spain’s Carla Simón is set to close the festival.

Nine fiction features will contend for the 2025 Golden Antigone, to be awarded by a jury presided over by Ariane Ascaride: The Voice of Hind Rajab [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Kaouther Ben Hania
scheda film] by Tunisia’s Kaouther Ben Hania (awarded the Grand Jury Prize in Venice), Sundays [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Alauda Ruiz de Azúa
scheda film] by Spain’s Alauda Ruíz de Azúa (the recent recipient of the Golden Shell in San Sebastián), Little Trouble Girls [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Urška Djukić
scheda film] by Slovenia’s Urška Djukić (awarded the FIPRESCI Prize in the Berlinale’s Perspectives competition and likewise triumphant in Tribeca), Sweetheart [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Margherita Spampinato
scheda film] by Italy’s Margherita Spampinato (the winner of the Special Jury Prize in Locarno’s Filmmakers of the Present section), Calle Málaga [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Maryam Touzani
scheda film] by Morocco’s Maryam Touzani (which scooped the Venice Spotlight Audience Award), In the Land of Arto [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Tamara Stepanyan
scheda film] by French-Armenian filmmaker Tamara Stepanyan (unveiled on Locarno’s Piazza Grande), The Flying Meatball Maker by Turkey’s Rezan Yeşilbaş (screened in the IFFR’s Bright Future line-up), A Sad and Beautiful World [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Cyril Aris
scheda film] by Lebanon’s Cyril Aris (handed the Giornate degli Autori Audience Award in Venice) and La petite cuisine de Mehdi by France’s Amine Adjina (read our article).

Likewise in the running for the Audience Award are the eight feature films gracing the Panorama line-up: Aisha Can't Fly Away [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Morad Mostafa
scheda film] by Egypt’s Morad Mostafa (screened in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section), Where The Wind Comes From [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Amel Guellaty
scheda film] by Tunisia’s Amel Guellaty (discovered in the Sundance Film Festival), Exile [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by fellow Tunisian Mehdi Hmili (screened out of competition in Locarno), The Luminous Life [+leggi anche:
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intervista: João Rosas
scheda film] by Portugal’s João Rosas (discovered in competition at Karlovy Vary), Deaf [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Eva Libertad
scheda film] by Spain’s Eva Libertad (the winner of the Berlinale’s Panorama Audience Award), Pieces of a Foreign Life by Syria’s Gaya Jiji, DJ Ahmet [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Georgi M. Unkovski
scheda film] by North Macedonia’s Georgi M. Unkovski (victorious in Sundance) and the documentary And the Fish Fly Above Our Heads by Lebanon’s Dima El-Horr (unveiled in Visions du Réel’s Burning Lights section).

The Documentary Competition will see eight titles jostling for position: The Seasons [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Maureen Fazendeiro
scheda film] by Portugal’s Maureen Fazendeiro, Little Syria by Romania’s Madalina Rosca and Syria’s Reem Karssli, With Hasan in Gaza [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Kamal Aljafari
scheda film] by Palestine’s Kamal Aljafari, 9-Month Contract [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Georgia’s Ketevan Vashagashvili, Do You Love Me [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Lana Daher
scheda film] by Lebanon’s Lana Daher, 50 Meters by Egypt’s Yomna Khattab, Fiume o Morte! [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Croatia’s Igor Bezinovic and The Inherited Silence by Spain’s Lucía Dapena González.

An array of previews further enhances the Cinemed line-up, including Los tigres [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Spain’s Alberto Rodríguez and Palestine 36 [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Palestine’s Annemarie Jacir, plus five French titles, including You Found Me by Alice Vial.

Rounding things off, among other offerings, is a focus on “young Syrian cinema under reconstruction,” a short films competition and panorama, young-audience screenings (notably showcasing Olivia and the Invisible Earthquake [+leggi anche:
intervista: Irene Iborra
scheda film] by Spain’s Irene Iborra), and, from 21 to 23 October, the Cinemed Meetings industry days, which Cineuropa will cover in detail at a later date.