20/10/2022 - The 44th edition of the Cinemed Festival will take place from 21 to 29 October, with nine fiction features competing for the Antigone d'or

L’immensità [+see also:
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interview: Emanuele Crialese
film profile] from Italian filmmaker Emanuele Crialese (discovered in Competition in Venice) will tomorrow open the 44th Montpellier Mediterranean Film Festival, which will take place from 21 to 29 October with three filmmakers as guests of honour (Spanish director Icíar Bollaín, French-Moroccan director Simon Bitton and French-Tunisian director Abdellatif Kechiche who will take part in a masterclass) and a retrospective of 15 films dedicated to Napolitan director Francesco Rosi.

Standing out among the 200 films in the programme are the 9 fiction features competing for the 2022 Antigone d'or, which will be handed out by a jury headed by the duo composed of Rachida Brakni and Éric Cantona (alongside directors Delphine Gleize and Chloé Mazlo, and musician Piers Faccini). In competition are The Last Queen [+see also:
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interview: Adila Bendimerad, Damien Ou…
interview: Damien Ounouri
film profile] from Algerian filmmakers Adila Bendimerad and Damien Ounouri, Lullaby [+see also:
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interview: Alauda Ruiz de Azúa
film profile] by Spanish director Alauda Ruíz de Azúa, Mediterranean Fever [+see also:
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film profile] from Palestinian filmmaker Maha Haj, Dirty, Difficult, Dangerous [+see also:
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interview: Wissam Charaf
film profile] by Lebanon’s Wissam Charaf, Ashkal [+see also:
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film profile] by Tunisia’s Youssef Chebbi, Abdelinho from French-Moroccan filmmaker Hicham Ayouch, Strangeness [+see also:
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film profile] from Italy’s Roberto Andò, Beating Sun [+see also:
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interview: Philippe Petit
film profile] from France’s Philippe Petit and For My Country [+see also:
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interview: Rachid Hami
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Also competing for the Audience Award are the six feature films from the Panorama section: You Have to Come and See It [+see also:
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interview: Jonás Trueba
film profile] by Spanish director Jonás Trueba, Wolf and Dog [+see also:
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interview: Cláudia Varejão
film profile] by Portugal’s Cláudia Varejão, Alma viva [+see also:
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interview: Cristèle Alves Meira
film profile] from Portugal’s Cristèle Alves Meira, Delta [+see also:
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film profile] from Italy’s Michele Vannucci, the French-Lebanese co-production Mother Valley [+see also:
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film profile] by Carlos Chahine and Burning Days [+see also:
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interview: Emin Alper
film profile] by Turkish director Emin Alper.

The Documentaries competition will feature eight titles, including the features Reconciliation [+see also:
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film profile] by Bulgaria’s Nikolay Stefanov, Atlantic Bar [+see also:
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film profile] from French director Fanny Molins, After a Revolution [+see also:
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film profile] by Italy’s Giovanni Buccomino, Guardian of the Worlds from French-Algerian director Leïla Chaïbi, How the Room Felt [+see also:
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interview: Ketevan Kapanadze
film profile] by Georgian filmmaker Ketevan Kapanadze and 5 Dreamers and a Horse [+see also:
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interview: Vahagn Khachatryan and Aren…
film profile] from Armenian duo Vahagn Khachatryan - Aren Malakyan.

Many premieres complete the very rich programme of the festival (which will close with Two Tickets to Greece by Marc Fitoussi), such as the world premiere of the animated film Argonuts [+see also:
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film profile] by David Alaux, but also Our Ties [+see also:
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film profile] by Roschdy Zem, The Adventures of Gigi the Law [+see also:
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interview: Alessandro Comodin
film profile] by Alessandro Comodin, Maixabel [+see also:
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interview: Icíar Bollaín
film profile] by Icíar Bollaín, Houria [+see also:
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film profile] by Mounia Meddour, Under the Fig Trees [+see also:
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interview: Erige Sehiri
film profile] by Erige Sehiri, Our Brothers [+see also:
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film profile] by Rachid Bouchareb, The Principal [+see also:
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film profile] by Chad Chenouga, Le Monde de Kaleb by Vasken Toranian, The Colors of Fire [+see also:
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film profile] by and starring Clovis Cornillac, Neneh superstar by Ramzi Ben Sliman, Father & Soldier [+see also:
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film profile] by Mathieu Vadepied, The Blaze [+see also:
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film profile] by Quentin Reynaud, Wilderness Therapy [+see also:
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film profile] by Édouard Deluc, Maestro(s) [+see also:
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film profile] by Bruno Chiche, Ride Above [+see also:
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film profile] by Christian Duguay and the Netflix film Lost Bullet 2 by Guillaume Pierret.

Worth highlighting are the special screenings for Italian series Exterior Night [+see also:
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interview: Marco Bellocchio
series profile] by Marco Bellocchio and Letizia Battaglia by Roberto Andò, a focus on the new generation of young Georgian filmmakers, a Competition and a Panorama section for short films, programmes celebrating the 30th anniversaries of Arte and ACID, the Rendez-vous Fantastiques section, the La Nuit en Enfer section (“A Night in Hell,” featuring She Will [+see also:
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interview: Charlotte Colbert
film profile] by Charlotte Colbert, 13 notes en rouge by François Gaillard and Dark Glasses [+see also:
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film profile] by Dario Argento among other titles) and the Cinemed for children. Taking place from 25 to 27 October are the professional Cinemed Meetings, which Cineuropa will write about in more detail in a later article.

(Translated from French)