PriMed news

LES ANNÉES DE PLOMB, UNE TRAGÉDIE ITALIENNE

53 minutes, 2016
Director: Nicolas GLIMOIS (France)
Production: Sunset Presse, with support from France Télévisions (France)

From the late 1960’s to the 1980’s, Italy was plagued with social unrest, massacres, assassinations and kidnappings. It was a time of extremism, both right-wing and left-wing, unhealthy acquaintances, gnawing suspicions of criminal complicity – possibly initiated by certain sectors of the state apparatus (police, secret services) and foreign powers.
From the explosion in Milan’s Piazza Fontana in December 1969 to the massacre at Bologna station in August 1980 and the assassination of former prime minister Aldo Moro in May 1978, violence struck Italy as nowhere else in Western Europe.
A low-intensity civil war and an open wound for Italy, which, 40 years later, is still struggling to unravel the spiders’ web of responsibility.

Nicolas GLIMOIS is an author, film director and script-writer, born in Quimper (Brittany) in 1968.
He has a degree from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Bordeaux, from the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce in Rheims and has a Masters in Media at the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce in Paris.
Winner of the Albert Londres award in 1999 for “Les Blanchisseuses de Magdalen”, he has made several documentaries and TV reports, including: “L’Affaire des Poisons” (2011), “L’argent sale, le poison de la finance” (2012), “Paris 2014: coulisses d’une élection” (2014), “Steve Jobs – Bill Gates: le hippie et le geek” (2014), “Les enfants du péché” (2015) and “Le Val-de-Grâce, l’hôpital de la République” (2015).

PriMed news

ALGER, LA MECQUE DES RÉVOLUTIONNAIRES

56 minutes, 2016
Director: Ben SALAMA (France)
Production: Electron Libre Productions, Version Originale, Arte France (France)

From the early 1960’s to the mid-1970’s, independent Algeria provided significant support to anti-colonial movements and revolutionaries around the world.
Successive presidents, Ahmed Ben Bella then Houari Boumedienne, made Algiers a place of welcome for those fighting against colonial or racial oppression.
Algiers the White became Algiers the Red. The internationalist Che Guevara established a base here for his guerilla activities in Africa. Eldridge Cleaver, the Afro-American leader, made it a centre for the world-wide spread of the Black Panther Party.
During this period, Algiers was known as the Revolutionaries’ Mecca.

Born in Algeria, French author and director Ben SALAMA arrived in France at the age of 20 and joined the film section of IDHEC in 1973. As a young film critic for Film Français, he rapidly moved into journalism, for many years working freelance before joining France 3.
His work as film-maker reflects his personal history, whether it be his immigrant parents arriving in France or the place of Islam as he knew it in Algeria in the 1960’s. He has drawn from that history a series of reflections and published works such as “Au Nom de l’Islam: Enquête sur une religion instrumentalisée”, published in 2009; and films like “Une Histoire algérienne”, produced for France 5 in 2012.
He has also made the following documentaries: “Nasser, du rêve au désastre” (53 minutes 2016); “1954, la fin d’un monde” (52 minutes 2013), in collaboration with Benjamin Stora; “Naissance d’une nation” (52 minutes, 2013), in collaboration with Thomas Marie.

PriMed news

SYRIE, LE CRI ÉTOUFFÉ

72 minutes, 2017
Director: Manon LOIZEAU (France) – co-written by Annick COJEAN
Production: Magnéto Presse, with the support of France Télévisions (France)

It’s a lamentation. A howl, stifled yet deafening. A silent cry whose spasms tear through prison walls, basements, the antechambers of death. It’s the cry of Syrian women who, for the past six years, have been routinely raped in Bashar al-Assad’s jails. An organized, pre-meditated crime, based on a key taboo in traditional Syrian society, which makes it impossible for the victims to ever speak about it, knowing they risk rejection – even being stoned to death – by their own family. Rape – in Syria a weapon of war, but never discussed. A way of not only destroying the woman and her identity, but also breaking her family, her clan, and any form of resistance.
How did a woman’s body become part of Syria’s war? The question raised in this film letting women, previously walled-up in shame and silence, speak.

 

From 1994 to 2002 Manon LOIZEAU worked as a journalist in Russia, for the BBC, Le Monde and for Capa. In 1997 she began to make documentaries in Moscow for France 2, Arte, Canal Plus, mainly about Human Rights, forbidden places, and forbidden countries such as Chechnya where she worked for more than ten years. After Russia she made several films in Afghanistan, India and Pakistan.
Recently she has made films trying to show the hope and despair in Iran. Since the beginning she has been motivated by a desire to tell unknown stories, to give an outlet to forbidden voices – in Syria, the Yemen and again in the Chechen Republic.

PriMed news

BORN IN SYRIA

86 minutes, 2016
Director: Hernán ZIN (Argentina)
Production: La Claqueta PC (Spain), Contramedia Films (Spain), Final Cut For Real (Denmark)

 

Since the start of the civil war in Syria in 2011, about 9 million Syrians have left their country. Half of them children.
Filmed in 4K and with an original music track composed by Gabriel Yared, the documentary “Born in Syria” follows seven of these young children for a year. Through their eyes, we share their lives, from fleeing Syria, through the refugee camps in the Middle East, to their arrival in the promised land, Europe. And then we continue to follow them during their first six months in Europe. This film is a unique testimony of the refugees’ experience.

 

Hernán ZIN was born in Buenos Aires in 1971. Having studied international relations he has spent the past twenty years travelling the world making documentary films, writing articles and books.
As a director his credits include several documentary films, including: “I Want to be Messi” (2013), “Born in Gaza” (2014) and “10 años con Bebe” (2016).

PriMed news

IF I CLOSE MY EYES

54 minutes, 2016
Directors and Producers: Francesca MANNOCCHI and Alessio ROMENZI (Italy)

if i close my eyes rai3

Lebanon, with its 4 million inhabitants, has received about 1.2 million Syrian refugees – a figure humiliating for Europe, which, with its 500 million inhabitants, is constantly bickering about whether to allow 1 million, and which sees immigration as a threat rather than an opportunity.
“If I Close My Eyes” shows us the lives of Syrian refugees in Lebanon, in particular the children the Lebanese school system cannot accommodate. Nearly 300,000 children – for whom the terrible memories of war will never be obliterated – are excluded from the school system. What will become of them? Will they be forced to work for a few dollars a day, or will we be able to offer them a future? The generation of refugee children is losing one of its fundamental rights: the right to education and study.

Italian journalist Francesca MANNOCCHI works for various Italian and international magazines and television programmes, including L’Espresso, Al Jazeera, MiddleEastEye, RAI 3 and SkyTg24. Her work focuses on migration and conflict zones. In recent years she has worked in Tunisia, Egypt, the Balkans, Iraq, Libya, Turkey and Lebanon. In 2015 she won the Premio Giustolisi, for her investigation into migrant trafficking and prisons in Libya, and in 2016 the prestigious Premiolino award for journalism.
Alessio ROMENZI is an Italian photographer who grew up in a small village in the Apennines. He worked as a technician in climate engineering and as a blacksmith before settling in the Middle East to cover the Arab Spring from its inception, particularly in Egypt and Libya. He later became interested in Syria. His work has been awarded by UNICEF (Photo of the Year) and twice by the World Press Photo and Pictures of the Year International. Alessio’s photos are regularly published in major international magazines and used by international humanitarian organizations.

Archives

CHILD MOTHER

90 minutes, 2016
Director : Yael KIPPER et Ronen ZARETZKY (Israel)
Production : Turtles Films (Israel)

“Child Mother” is about the now elderly women who were born in Morocco or the Yemen, and forced to marry while still very young. Memories of a lost childhood. When they were only 5, 6 or 10 years old, their parents tore them from the playground and married them to older men. They remember the violence and fear they experienced, getting pregnant at the age of 11 or 12, and becoming mothers while they were still children.

 

Yael KIPPER was born in 1969 in Israel. She studied at Tel-Aviv’s Camera Obscura art school. For the past fifteen years she has been directing and producing documentaries, among them “A Talent for the Land” (2014), “Displaced” (2008), “Shining Stars” (2008), “The Last Fighters” (2006).

Ronen Zaretzky also studied at Tel-Aviv’s Camera Obscura art school. He is a senior editor of the newspaper Haaretz. He is also senior editor of the investigative programme Uvda, broadcast on Keshet TV / Channel 2. He is also a producer and director: among his most recent documentaries: “A Talent for the Land” (2014), “Super Women” (2013), “Displaced” (2008), “The Last Fighters” (2006).

Archives

The list of selected films for PriMed 2017

logo PriMedFind here the list of films selected for the final phase of the 21st edition of the PriMed which will be held in Marseille from 19 to 25 November 2017.

You will find soon online all the excerpts of the selected films.

 

The selected films for PriMed 2017

MEDITERRANEAN ISSUES
– CHILD MOTHER by Yael KIPPER and Ronen ZARETZKY
– IF I CLOSE MY EYES by Francesca MANNOCCHI and Alessio ROMENZI
– NÉ EN SYRIE by Hernan ZIN
– SYRIE, LE CRI ÉTOUFFÉ by Manon LOIZEAU and Annick COJEAN

MEDITERRANEAN MEMORY
– ALGER, LA MECQUE DES RÉVOLUTIONNAIRES (1962 – 1974) by Ben SALAMA
– LES ANNÉES DE PLOMB, UNE TRAGÉDIE ITALIENNE by Nicolas GLIMOIS
– FRANCO’S LEGACY – SPAIN STOLEN CHILDREN by Inga BREMER
– NÉ À DEIR YASSIN by Neta SHOSHANI

MEDITERRANEAN ART, HERITAGE AND CULTURES
– A FOOTNOTE IN BALLET HISTORY ? by Hisham ABDEL KHALEK
– ALALÁ (JOIE) by Remedios MALVAREZ BAEZ
– JE DANSERAI MALGRÉ TOUT ! by Blandine DELCROIX
– NESSUNO CI PUÒ GIUDICARE by Steve DELLA CASA and Chiara RONCHINI

FIRST FILM
– ATTENTION ! by Onur BAKIR and Panagiotis CHARAMIS
– BENVENUTI by Laura AURIOLE and Annalisa LENDARO
– GAZA SURF CLUB by Philip GNADT and Mickey YAMINE
– MARE NOSTRO by Andrea GADALETA CALDAROLA

MEDITERRANEAN SHORT FILM
– BOLINGO. LA FORÊT DE L’AMOUR by Alejandro G. SALGADO
– KACHACH, AU-DESSUS DE ZAATARI by Bruno PIERETTI
– MY MOTHER THE TOBACCO GROWER by Stathis GALAZOULAS
– UN JOUR À ALEP by Ali AL-IBRAHIM
– WASTE NO. 2 WRECK by Jan IJÄS

MEDITERRANEAN MULTIMEDIA
– BORDERBLOB by Andrea KUNKL
– CHANT ACIER by François BON, Emmanuel ROY and Annabel ROUX
– LA VIA D’USCITA by Milena GABANELLI
– SANT’ELIA, FRAGMENTS D’UN ESPACE QUOTIDIEN by Silvia ARU, Bruno CHIARAVALLOTI, Claudio JAMPAGLIA and Maurizio MEMOLI

 

 

 

 

 

logo-primed-incriptions-2021 Archives

The list of selected films for PriMed 2017 soon…

385 films from 40 countries were received by the CMCA, organizer of PriMed, one of the most important mediterranean festivals co-organized with France Télévisions, La Rai and ASBU (Union of Broadcasters of the Arab States).
The Selection Jury, which will be held from 6 to 9 June at the CMCA, will work on the selection of the films that will participate in the final phase of the 21st PriMed, from 19 to 25 November 2017.

The list of selected films will be published on www.primed.tv

Countdown for the list of selected films

[tminus t=”15-06-2017 12:00:00″ omitweeks=”true” style=”hoth”/]

Here the Members of jury :

– Nathalie BÉLY, Head of Audiovisual Production, Department of Cultural Production of the MuCEM (Museum of Civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean)
– Elisabeth CESTOR, Assistant to the manager, cultural development center of MuCEM
– Cécile DUMOULIN, Head of the department of cultural development and public of the MuCEM
– Valérie GERBAULT, General Delegate of CMCA
– Frédérique LAMBERT, Teacher, author and assistant director
– Philippe MACÉ, INA Méditerranée
– Mireille MAURICE, General Delegate of INA Méditerranée
– Bania MEDJBAR, producer and director
– Franco REVELLI, Head of multimedias, broadcasting and training programs at CMCA
– Sami SADAK, Artistic Director of Babel Med Music
– Paule SARDOU, director, former president of Tous-Court Aix film festival

mediterranee Archives

Submissions closed for PriMed 2017

logo PriMedAlso for this edition we received a large number of films, we thank you for your participation.

The Mediterranean Sea remains at the heart of the public, director and producers of the whole world.

Our team is working to organize the preselection of the films. As usual a jury of selection will be soon in charge of choosing the works which will participate to the final phase of PriMed on 2017.

 

The list of selected films will be on line shortly!

 

The PriMed is open to all film makers, television and production companies who, through their programmes or films, are part of the process of cultural exchange between countries of the Mediterranean basin in its widest sense, from the Atlantic to the Black Sea.
The works presented should be about the culture, heritage, history, societies and life of the men and women living in Mediterranean countries. They must not contain any form of advertising or propaganda. Each work can only be entered for one category, and the choice must be clearly indicated in the registration form.

inscriptions primed

The festival is organized by 4 steps :

– January/April2017 : call for submissions

– May 2017 : selection of films made by a international committee
– November / December 2017, finals of PriMed : the international jury will attribute the prizes, screenengs, professional and public meetings.

For further informations : prix@cmca-med.org

The PriMed, International Festival of Mediterranean Documentary film  and reportage is an international competition that takes place every year. It is designed for audiovisual productions in the specific area of documentary films, courrent affair  and investigations films dealing with issues of cultural  Mediterranean area from the Atlantic coast to the shores of the Black Sea.

The PriMed aims to promote and reward programs whose quality and creativity, both in content and in art forms, are remarcable. This event is open to all television organizations (public or private), production structures (public, private or associations), writers, directors, journalists and documentary filmmakers who, through their works and their programs, want to participate to a better understanding of the Mediterranean history, cultures and traditions.

The PriMed is finalized to promote mutual knowledge and professional exchanges. This Price is also an opportunity for an annual meeting between audiovisual professionals and it contributes to develop dialogue and cooperation between all countries of the Mediterranean.