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IN UTERO SREBRENICA

IN UTERO SREBRENICA
54 minutes, 2012
Director : Giuseppe CARRIERI (Italy)
Production : Natia Docufilm (Italy)

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In the middle of the night, in a forest peppered with unexploded mines, Munira is digging with her bare hands to find the bones of her son, killed during the Srebrenica genocide. She and many other mothers continue their fight for justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina, a country that still does not know peace.

Giuseppe CARRIERI was born in 1985 in Naples. He is a film-maker as well as teaching film. He has made the following documentaries: “Notturno Italiano (14 Storie d’Italia dei 150 anni)” (125 minutes, 2011), “Tu sali tra le stelle” (27 minutes, 2012), “Stelle contate sulle dita” (52 minutes, 2012) and “L’alfabeto del fiume” (52 minutes, 2012).

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MAUDIT SOIT LE PHOSPHATE

MAUDIT SOIT LE PHOSPHATE
85 minutes, 2012
Director : Samy TLILI (Tunisia)
Production : Nomadis Images (Tunisia)

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January 5, 2008, a sit-in organized by a group of young unemployed in front of Redeyef’s Town Hall, in south-western Tunisia, marked the beginning of a movement of civil dissent which lasted six months. 21 years after the coup d’Etat which brought him to office, General Ben Ali faced his first popular uprising. Their names are Moudhaffer, Bashir, Adnene, Leila, Adel or Haroun – teachers, unemployed, or youth in despair. Some are in the streets to express their anger, others to support these young people. They came together in a popular movement unprecedented in Tunisia at that time, “the revolt for dignity”. In this coal mining region the equation is simple, yet absurd: phosphate is produced in an area forced to suffer all the harmful consequences (environmental and other), without receiving any benefit. Four years later, what remains of this human adventure? Broken souls, wounds still raw – but also pride and dignity.

Born in 1985 in Kairouan (Tunisia), Samy TLILI is a young Tunisian director. He is also a lecturer at the University of Sousse. He has three short films to his credit. “Maudit soit le phosphate” is his first long documentary.

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LE THE OU L’ELECTRICITE

LE THÉ OU L’ELECTRICITÉ
93 minutes, 2012
Director : Jérôme LE MAIRE (Belgium)
Production : Iota Production (Belgium)

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The arrival of electricity in an isolated, landlocked village in the heart of the Moroccan High Atlas. For more than 3 years, season after season, the director patiently reveals how the web of change is closing inexorably on the inhabitants of Ifri. We watch the arrival of a pitiless modernity to which the village will be connected.

Born in 1969, Jérôme Le Maire is a director, writer and cameraman. After studying Journalism and Communication in Brussels, he trained as a director at Louvain-la-Neuve’s Institut des Arts de Diffusion. He has directed several short drama films and documentaries including “Où est l’amour dans la palmeraie ?” (2007), “Un jour, une vie” (2004) and “Volter ne m’intéresse pas” (2003). His feature film, “Le Grand Tour” was selected for the Rotterdam International Festival, the Cannes Film Festival in the section ACID, and the Namur International Festival of Francophone Film. In Belgium it was given theatrical release in 2011.

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ITALY : LOVE IT, OR LEAVE IT

ITALY : LOVE IT, OR LEAVE IT
75 minutes, 2011
Directors : Gustav HOFER et Luca RAGAZZI (Italy)
Production : Hiq Productions (Italy)

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Two Italians, two different visions of their homeland: while Gustav wants to emigrate, his companion Luca wants to prove that there are still great people on the peninsula. From the worsening working conditions at Fiat to property speculation disfiguring the Calabrian coast, there are many reasons for despair. But when Luca introduces Gustav to a Sicilian entrepreneur fighting the Mafia, or the amazing communist, catholic and homosexual who governs the region of Puglia, he convinces him that all is not lost. Gustav eventually reconsiders his position and regains hope.

Gustav HOFER was born in 1976 in Italy, Alto Adige (South Tyrol). He studied communication in Vienna (Austria) before studying film in London. He lives in Rome, where he is a correspondent for the television channel Arte. He works as a freelance journalist and independent filmmaker. As a director, he made “Korea Prioritaria” in 2002, “Men for all Seasons” in 2005 and “Suddenly, Last Winter” in 2008.
Luca RAGAZZI, was born in 1971 at Rome. He is a journalist, film critic and photographer. He studied literature and philosophy at Rome. “Suddenly, Last Winter” was his first film as director.

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FIVE BROKEN CAMERAS

FIVE BROKEN CAMERAS
90 minutes, 2010
Director : Emad BURNAT (Palestine) and Guy DAVIDI (Israel)
Production : Guy DVD Films (Israel), Burnat Films (Palestine), Alegría Productions (France)

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Emad BURNAT is a freelance Palestinian cameraman and photographer. He has filmed for Al-Jazeera, the Israeli channels 1, 2 and 10, as well as for Palestinian television. He works regularly with Reuters, and has filmed sequences of several documentaries such as “Bil’in My Love”, “Palestine Kids”, “Open Close” and “Interrupted Streams”..
Guy DAVIDI, born in Jaffa, is a documentary film director and teaches cinema.
He was cameraman on “Hamza” and “Journal D’une Orange” for France 3. He has also made many short documentaries such as “In Working Progress”, “Keywords” and “Women Defying Barriers”. In 2010, his first feature film “Interrupted Streams” opened the Jerusalem International Film Festival.

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DANCE OF OUTLAWS

82 minutes, 2012
Director : Mohamed EL ABOUDI (Moroccco, Finland)
Production : Illume Ltd, Road Movies, Piraya Films As (Finland)

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Hind, 22, is a dealer’s daughter. Driven from her home at 14 because she had been raped, she dances at weddings and prostitutes herself. Officially Hind does not exist. She can’t find her birth certificate and therefore has no right to identity papers. Yet she dreams of a better future: of marrying her lover, regaining custody of her children, getting a job and a real home.

Mohamed EL ABOUDI was born and grew up in Morocco. He studied theatre at Fez University, then cinema and television at Bond University, Australia. Amongst his recent films: “Fight of Fate” (2010), “City Folk Helsinki” (2007), “Inside / Offside” (2006), “Two Mothers” (2005), “Ramadan” (2004) and “My Father, the Freemason” (2003).

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The awards 2013

This edition has been honored by the presence of Rémy Pflimlin, President of France Televisions, and for the first time in Marseille, of the Presidents of Mediterranean televisions.

Grand Prix “Mediterranean Challenges”
Dance of Outlaws
de Mohamed El Aboudi (Morocco, Finland)
Sponsored by France Télévisions (6000 euros)

Mediterranean Memory
In Utero Srebrenica de Giuseppe Carrieri (Italy)
Sponsored by INA Institut National de l’Audiovisuel (5000 euros)

Mediterranean Art, Heritage and Cultures
A House for Bernarda Alba de Lidia Peralta Garcia (Spain)
Sponsored by Ville de Marseille (5000 euros)

Mediterranean reportage
Le Martyre des sept moines de Tibhirine de Malik Ait-Aoudia (Algeria) et Séverine Labat (France)
Sponsored by Radio France (5000 euros)

First film
Ich Liebe Dich de Emine Emel Balci (Turkey)
Sponsored par la Rai Radio Televisione Italiana (5000 euros)

Short mediterranean
Garbage de Burak Türten (Turkey)
Sponsored par Marseille Provence 2013 (2500 euros)

Mediterranean Multimedia
Dans les murs de la Casbah de Céline Dréan (France)
Sponsored par Orange (2500 euros)


MPM Averroes junior
A House for Bernarda Alba de Lidia Peralta Garcia (Spain)
Sponsored par MPM Marseille Provence Métropole (5000 euros)


Special jury award
Le thé ou l’électricité de Jérôme Le Maire (Belgium)
Sponsored par la CTC Collectivité Territoriale Corse (5000 euros)

ASBU special mention
Troufions de Thierry Demaizière et Alban Teurlai (France)

Broadcasting awards :

TV5 Monde
Guerre d’Algérie, la déchirure de Gabriel Le Bomin and Benjamin Stora (France)

France 3 Corse ViaStella
Italy, Love it, or leave it de Gustav Hofer et Luca Ragazzi (Italie)

Rai Tre
Five broken Cameras de Emad Burnat (Territoires palestiniens) et Guy Davidi (Israël)

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PriMed 2013 has been launched! And all its promises will be fulfilled in June in Marseille, thanks to an official selection from a record number of entries.

PriMed is now “the” festival of Mediterranean images, a showcase for the finest current affairs and documentary films about the Mediterranean.

A selection which this year includes memories of the Algerian war of independence, which shows the issues behind the revolutions and the fight for women’s rights and
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