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Sunday 19th November from 3pm at Mucem Museum, the opening of 21st edition of PriMed. As every year a special afternoon is dedicated to the Audience award competition with the screening of the film of Short Mediterranean category.
The 5 films in the category “Mediterranean Short” are available to vote PriMed spectators between 3 and 5 pm. Read more “Opening of 21th PriMed with the audience award”
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Find here the program of free public screenings of PriMed 2017. Read more “The program of PriMed 2017”
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The CMCA continues its work for high school students for the 2017 edition of PriMed, in partnership with the association Des Livres comme Des Idées, organizer of the Rencontres d’Averroès and the Oh Les beaux Jours festival and the Académie d’Aix- Marseille. Read more “Averroès junior award 2017”
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The 21st edition of the PriMed will be held in Marseille from 19 to 25 November. We thank all our partners who continue to accompany and support us. All public screenings are free.
All SELECTED FILMS FOR 2017 ► CLICK HERE
Nearly 30 hours of free screenings!
The PriMed offers to the public 6 days of free screenings.
The directors of the selected films are invited to Marseille to meet the public at the end of the projections. All films are screened in original language and / or subtitled in French.
On Saturday 25th November, at the end of the festival, the award-winning films are broadcasted again in the Alcazar Library between 11 am and 2 pm.
Audience award – Sunday 19 November, 3 pm, Mucem
The 21st edition of the PriMed starts with a special afternoon dedicated to the Audience Award. The 5 films of the category “Short mediterranean” are proposed to the vote of the spectators of the PriMed between 15h and 17h. At the end of the screenings, the public will be able to vote for their favorite short film at the entrance to the hall. The name of the winning director will be announced at the Awards Ceremony, on Friday, November 24 at 5:00 pm.
Educational actions program click here
PriMed has been developing a program of education for Mediterranean citizenship through the image of the selected films. 2,500 young people from the Mediterranean will take part in the 21st PriMed through several actions.
Masterclass for teachers – Wednesday 22 November, 1 pm, Alcazar
For the first time, PriMed offers to the teachers a masterclass around the differences between documentary and reportage: how to apprehend these two genres, how to judge them?
Gilles PEREZ, a great reporter, war reporter, director and producer of documentaries, Producer at 13 Productions, will bring his experience. Winner of the 1st Bayeux Prize of the War Correspondents 2001 and of the Prix du Jeune Producer 2007, he has directed “In Search of Ingrid” (2003), “Always the First: Odyssey of OM” (2008), and “Looking for Rio” (2014). He won the Best Documentary Award from the French Syndicate of Film Critics in 2016 for the documentary series “Nous, ouvriers”.
The masterclass is hosted by Paule HERADES, Administrator of the CMCA, representative of Apimed (Association of Independent Producers of the Mediterranean).
PriMed hosts shooting of “Carnets de Mediterraneo” – Friday 24 November, Villa Méditerranée
The program of France 3 Corse ViaStella installs its cameras for the second consecutive year at PriMed. A special 52-minute program that will be shooted during the festival. Dedicated to the production of documentaries in the Mediterranean, it will be presented by Thierry PARDI , Editor in Chief of “Mediterraneo”. Mathieu GUIDÈRE </ em> and two Mediterranean filmmakers will be invited to debate.
Awards Ceremony – Friday 24 November 5pm, Villa Méditerranée
The directors of the 25 selected films are present to discover the complete awards list of the 21st PriMed.
The awards are presented by jury members, community representatives, and festival partners.
The ceremony is presented by Alexandra GALDON, journalist in Provence Azur. The music will be hosted by Radio Babel .
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The map of the selected films gives you the opportunity to discover the regions where the selected films were shot. Read more “Map of selected films for PriMed 2017”
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“Waste no. 2 Wreck” was filmed in 2014 and 2015 on the island of Lampedusa, in the graveyard of the refugees’ boats. Here the discarded flotsam and jetsam, the smashed boats, become symbols of our society – and thus desirable icons, their value increasing daily.
Born in 1975 in Finland, the multimedia artist and film-maker Jan IJÄS lives and works in Helsinki. He makes documentary films, drama films and experimental films which look at difficult issues in our society, such as migration into foreign, hostile societies. His films have been widely shown abroad in festivals, museums and art galleries.
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Suffocated by the inhuman and endless siege imposed by the Syrian regime, and after five uninterrupted months of senseless bombardment, a group of children living in Aleppo begin to paint the walls of the city.
A gesture of protest and minimal resistance, to dare to dream about the return of life in a city humiliated by shooting and bombs, in the sight of and with the full knowledge of the international powers who made no attempt to save lives.
All over the city, colour appears. Small glimmers of hope germinate in the heads of the thousands of people who have remained prisoners, choking in the dust between ruins and rubble.
As Russian forces cut food and medical supplies, more than 280,000 civilians wander the streets homeless, without shelter, looking for reasons to continue, for new sources of hope. What happened in Aleppo will never be forgotten.
Ali AL-IBRAHIM is a Syrian journalist.
He holds a degree in Media and Communications from Damascus University. He has worked as a correspondent for several Syrian newspapers, and as a reporter for pan-Arab newspapers, including, Al-Mouden, Aaraby Aljadeed and Elaph. He has made investigative reports for Al-Araby TV and ARIJ (Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism Network). He has also worked as a reporter for Sky News Arabia making TV reports inside Syria on the current war.
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Depuis son enfance, ma grand-mère Chrisoula a travaillé dans les champs de tabac.
En décembre 2014, avec mon frère, elle assiste à un spectacle sur l’histoire du tabac dans la ville de Agrinio. Un événement important qui permet aux habitants de se souvenir du passé de leur ville.
Stathis Galazoulas a obtenu un diplôme en photographie artistique et en réalisation cinématographique. Il a réalisé des documentaires diffusés sur la télévision publique grecque ERT (“The Other Man”, 2014 ; “Niala, a Forgotten History Page”, 2013). Il travaille comme assistant caméraman, directeur de la photographie et réalisateur.
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In the Zaatari refugee camp (Jordan), Syrians await the end of a never-ending war. Among the exiles, a community was formed: the Kachach. In this camp which no one is supposed to leave, these bird breeders have revived a tradition: waiting for the end of their exile, their birds keep alive their dream.
Bruno PIERETTI: through his documentaries and his drama-films Pieretti looks for unorthodox ways of showing war, violence and its consequences.
His first documentary, “Kachach, au-dessus de Zaatari“, tackles the pain of exile in an unfamiliar way.
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“Bolingo. La forêt de l’amour” is about the journey travelled by many women from the heart of Africa to the North of Morocco, following their “European dream”.
Some of them give birth in the Bolingo camp, or in other camps built next to the border between Morocco and Spain.
Bolingo means “love” in Lingala, the language spoken by the Congolese migrants who decided to give a touch of humanity to the hard drama their fellow migrants suffer as they cross North Africa. They created this camp so migrant women can live with their children while waiting to cross the border into Europe.
“Bolingo: The Forest of Love” shows these mothers who struggle for survival, raising their children in difficult conditions.
Alejandro G. SALGADO was born in 1982. He studied Media and Communications, then Art History at Seville University. He completed his training in Barcelona, specialising in script-writing for feature-length drama films. Since 2011 he has worked as producer and director of several films.
His credits as a director include the documentary “Final de Trayecto” (2009), the short documentary “Among Tissues and Dreams” (2010) and the documentary “The Disorder of the Senses” (2013) – this last film winning several awards. Since 2014 he has been part of the production company La Maleta.