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Signing of the partnership agreement between the MuCEM (Museum of Civilization in Europe and the Mediterranean) and CMCA (Mediterranean Centre for Audiovisual Communication) Read more “MuCEM will be partner of PriMed 2013”
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Since 16 years the International Festival for Mediterranean Documentary film and Reportage receives thousands of documentaries and reportages. Find here all the statistics of the registered films. Read more “PriMed statistics”
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23 minutes, 2010
Production : Rami ZURAYK et Lucile GARCON / France
Every year, at the beginning of spring, Syrian buses go down the Euphrates valley on their way to the Lebanese border. Three years of consecutive drought have made the people of the Fertile Crescent hostile, many Syrians are thrown out on to the road with nothing to eat. Whole families cross the Anti-Lebanon mountains; the men find jobs in construction, either at Saïda or Beirut, the women and children work in the fields, bullied by the foremen and a boss who takes a percentage of their wages. Come the winter, some of these seasonal workers do not go back home, they spend years in make-shift potato-sack tents along the roads which lead to the famous archaeological site at Baalbeck. If, from the window of their car, tourists find the idea of a nomadic life charmingly archaic, the view from inside the camp shows archaism of a different sort, less romantic, more typical of modern refugee camps.
Lucile GARCON was born in Normandy in 1987. Having studied agronomy and anthropology in Paris, she set out with a camera for the Lebanon in September 2009. While working on research projects for the American University in Beirut, she wrote a few articles and made a documentary on the condition of agricultural workers on the Beqaa plain. She is currently working on a thesis on food . As a director she has made the following films: “Warsheh” (2010, 23 minutes); “Un hectare à Beyrouth” (2009, 5 minutes); “Le temps des cerises” (2008, 22 minutes).
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18 minutes, 2010
Production : IESAV Institut d’études scéniques, audiovisuelles et cinématographiques / Lebanon
The documentary is about an atypical couple and the pressure they are under. Filipinno worker Lee-Zayda was employed at Majdi’s house, the relationship developed, now they are married. In their Lebanese village of Kahale, however, their neighbours are not models of tolerance.
Michael ABI KHALIL was born in Kahale, Lebanon, in 1988. He is a student at the Institute for Scenic and Audiovisual Studies at Saint-Joseph University, Beirut. “Sayda” (2010) is his first documentary.
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28 minutes, 2011
Production : Teatro Meridional S.L. / Espagne
Is it possible to be a long-distance mother? Can one educate one’s child from a phone box? Women who go miles away to provide a better future for their children tell us how they live their roles as mother using a telephone or a computer .
Marina SERESESKY was born in 1969 in Buenos Aires (Argentina). She is an actress and director in both theatre and film. Her short film “El Cortejo” has been shown in several festivals, winning several awards. Currently she is working at the Teatro Meridional in Madrid as well as the Centro Dramatico Nacional.
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15 minutes, 2009
Production : TRT Kids (Turkish Radio & Television Corporation) / Turquie
Abdullah is 11 and lives with his parents and 11 brothers and sisters in Hasankeyf, a historic, and very tourist-orientated town in eastern Turkey. He is desperate to have his own bicycle but knows his parents cannot possibly afford to buy him one. How can he obtain the bike of his dreams? He decides to earn the necessary money himself. He assumes his responsibility by taking a major decision: he will become a tourist guide.
Serda YALIN was born in 1967 in Istanbul. She graduated in journalism and public relations in 1988 and the same year began to work for TRT. Since 1995 she has made television programmes for children and young people. In 1995 she won the Turkish Union of Journalists’ Prize with the TV series “Cakiltasi”. Her other TV programme for pre-school children, “Apple Worm”, is one of the finalists in the 2008 Japan Prize.
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27 minutes, 2011
Production : RTS / Suisse
Latifa, Ghalia and Asma. Wage-earner, student and mother at home, each in her own way has contributed to the revolution against Gaddafi, by helping refugees, protesting or simply sweeping streets. With open arms they welcomed the reporters from “Temps Présent”, foreigners with whom they shared their first moments of freedom in Benghazi, the rebel-held town.
Having graduated in television studies at the University of Quebec at Montreal (Canada), Marie-Laure WIDMER BAGGIOLINI has worked regularly for Télévision Suisse Romande. In 1998 she travelled through the Balkans as far as Iran, via the southern Caucasus. She sent live TV and radio reports from an Albania in the throes of revolution and made several news films for TSR, later shown at the Geneva Festival of North-South Media. From the end of 1998 to the summer of 2002 she was based in Tehran and filed frequent reports to TSR. She has also been sent to Iraq and Afghanistan. At the end of 2003 she set up a production company, Papilles Prod, with Annick Jeanmairet. Together they created “Pique-Assiette”, a series of 6-minute cookery programmes which won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Gourmet Voices Festival in 2006. In 2006 as an independent she made a current affairs film for Channel 4 on Somali refugees ship-wrecked off the coast of Yemen – images later used by Daniel Grandclément in his film “Les Martyrs du Golfe d’Aden”. Her film won an award at the FIGRA
festival in 2008. Marie-Laure continues to make 52-minute documentaries for the TSR programme “Temps Présent”.
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30 minutes, 2011
Production : OTV Channel / Egypte
According to Egyptian law, dangerous waste material from hospitals must be burnt within the hospital itself, but in reality rubbish collectors steal most of it and recycle the items as new. Often these rubbish collectors are contaminated by the Hepatitis C virus – which is why Egypt has the fastest rate of increase in this virus in the world.
Mona IRAQI is an Egyptian investigative journalist. She began as a reporter for Sudanese television. In 2010 she produced and made her first documentary “Somalia, The Land of Evil Spirits”. “Wolves Plate”, her first investigative film, has won several awards, in particular the ARIJ Award for Investigative Journalism. She works currently for the Egyptian satellite channels (OTV Egypt, Alhayat).
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45 minutes, 2011
Production : France Télévisions – France 2 Envoyé Spécial / France
Thousands of Tunisians emigrating secretly to Europe, hundreds of thousands fleeing the war in Libya. Should Europe dread this massive influx of illegal immigrants? Log book in France and Tunisia on board one of the overloaded boats trying to reach the Italian island of Lampedusa. Why are Tunisians fleeing their country? After 23 years of dictatorship why don’t they believe in the future of their revolution?
Alexandra DENIAU was born in 1975. She got her Masters in Information and Communication Studies in 1998. Since 1999 she has worked for television: Arte Info, Canal Plus and i-Télé, Capa and since September 2008 she has been a reporter on France 2’s “Envoyé Spécial”.
François RENAUT is a journalist and cameraman. Having studied Letters and journalism, he worked for several television channels as a journalist/photographer. Since 2010 he has worked for France2 and Canal Plus’ programme “Dimanche Plus”
Christophe KENCK is a journalist and cameraman. He has worked for several French television channels. Since January 2008 he has worked particularly for France 2 on news programmes, “Compléments d’Enquête”, “Envoyé Spécial” and “Stade 2”.
