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PriMed 2021 MAKES A STOPOVER IN EGYPT

The PriMed tour ends Thursday, November 4 in Cairo at the École Saint Anne. Young people from 4 different schools (École Sainte Anne, École Sacré Cœur Ghamra, Patriarchal College, College of Rajac), very motivated, with a very high level of French, took part in the debates in a voluntary and constructive manner. We had some very strong moments this week meeting young Egyptians. They enchanted us with their maturity, their curiosity and their kindness. We would like to thank them all individually.

Thank you also to the Francophone Activity Center of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina , its Director Marwa El Sahn and her faithful collaborators Fadwa Issa and Hemat El Cheickh.

Thank you also to all the teachers and educational teams in Alexandria, Mansoura, Port Said and Cairo for welcoming us and accompanying us with their students.

On Wednesday November 3, it was in Port Saïd that the PriMed made a stopover. A very studious day for high school students from 4 establishments in the city. These young people, all French-speaking, followed with great seriousness the screenings of the 3 films participating in the Mediterranean Youth Prize. The debates were particularly lively, but always with respect for the word of the other. Here are the institutes that participated:

– Lycée El Horreya
– Nile Egyptian Schools (NES)
– Port-Saïd Integrated Schools (PIS), section nationale
– Port-Saïd Integrated Schools (PIS), section internationale

To know everything about the Mediterranean Youth Prize – PriMed 2021 > click here

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THE 25th EDITION PRESENTED AT THE PRESS CONFERENCE

Valérie GERBAULT, general delegate of the CMCA unveiled the program of this new edition of PriMed during the press conference held on Wednesday, October 27 at the Hôtel de Région.
The occasion to recall that PriMed has been developing for several years an education program for Euro-Mediterranean citizenship through image. Created by the CMCA, the Mediterranean Youth Prize allows nearly 2,500 high school students from the Southern Region, countries of the Mediterranean basin (Algeria, Egypt, Italy, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia) and Canada to become jurors of the PriMed festival. After viewing three documentary works in class, they will come together at the Alcazar and Mucem to debate and vote for their favorite film. The opportunity for them to exchange views, to reflect together on building a common future and to learn together the rules of democracy.

This year, the CMCA received 345 films from 34 countries. 23 films were selected for the PriMed. 12 films are unreleased in France and 9 films directed or co-directed by women.

The PriMed 2021 offers the Marseille public 30 hours of free screenings in the presence of the directors at the Library l’Alcazar, at the Town Hall of 1/7 and at the Mucem. 12 prizes will be awarded at the Prize Giving which will be organized on Friday 11 December from 4.30 p.m. at the Artplexe Canebière cinema.

Find all the details of the 25th edition in the available press kit >> HERE

The CMCA is the principal organizer of the event.

24th edition of PriMed

Because of the health measures against the Covi-19 pandemic, the 24th edition of PriMed was held online. The results of this PriMed 2020 are very positive.
We are very happy to have been able to maintain this edition, despite the many difficulties we have encountered. And we were right!

All selected films

Awards 2020

Nearly 100,000 of you watched the film clips.
More than 12,000 to see them in full. 2,000 high school students watched the films for the Mediterranean Youth Prize. And there were 50 of us for the virtual version of the Awards Ceremony. A warm awards ceremony, despite the physical absence.

CARTE LYCEES MEDITERRANEE PRIMED — Hig school students classes / PriMed 2020

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MAP OF SELECTED FILMS – PriMed 2021

Find here the map of selected films for the 25th edition of PriMed.
23 documentaries, the whole Mediterranean is touched by the subjects of the selected films.

Visit the page dedicated to the geographical maps of the films selected in the previous editions >> HERE

Selection 2021

AU NOM DE LA MER

(In the Service of the Sea)

52 minutes, 2021
Director : Jérôme et Caroline ESPLA (France)
Production : Via Découvertes Films (France), 13 Productions (France), France Télévisions

The film is a journey to meet people committed to protecting the Mediterranean.
From the Italian border via Corsica to Toulon, in groups or alone, women and men, young and old, employees or volunteers, they are all committed to taking concrete action. They are guardian angels, they are protectors, they are healers, they are whistleblowers, they are educators, they are inventors, they are lovers of nature and its biodiversity. They are all at the service of the sea.

Passionate about the marine world, Jérôme ESPLA began working as an underwater camera operator in 1998 and then moved on to directing documentaries. He has directed more than thirty, most of them on this theme, including “Génération Grand Bleu” shot with Jean-Marc Barr on the 30^th anniversary of the cult film “Le Grand Bleu”. His documentary “Mediterranean”, produced in 2018, is an ode to marine life, combining an animal documentary with a poetic narration.

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Selection 2021

#BOZA

17 minutes, 2020
Director : Séverine SAJOUS (France) et Anna SURINYACH (Spain)
Production : Revista 5W (Spain)

#boza is a film about the women and men who journey from the African continent hoping to reach Europe. Told in the first person, using selfies and their own amateur videos, Alhassane, Aminata, Mamadou, Mariam and Yahya describe their journey with its infamous goal: “to do their boza”. “Boza,” a disputed word, used by those attempting the crossing to describe the journey and, once safe and sound on the other side, to celebrate it. #boza removes the filters, and becomes a collective selfie of migration.

Séverine SAJOUS is a French photographer and film-maker with a degree in linguistics. Deeply interested in the human condition and migration issues, she collaborates with her subjects, allowing them to express themselves and develop their own artistic capacities. Since 2016 she has been working on a trilogy of short films inspired by the shared vocabulary invented to redefine the act of migrating and communicate the migrants’ collective experience. Her first short film “Password: Fajara” won awards at various festivals. Her second, #boza, received the 2019 devReporter grant.

Anna SURINYACH is a documentary photographer and photo editor for the international news magazine 5W. Her work has focused on documenting population movements around the world. She has photographed the situation of migrants in countries such as Southern Sudan, the Central African Republic, Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Yemen and Syria. She has also documented migration routes from Central America to the United States and from Africa and the Middle East to Europe. In recent years she has focused on the situation of women who leave their homes to flee violence, poverty and lack of opportunity.

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Selection 2021

YAHIA LE RESCAPÉ

(Yahia the Survivor)

29 minutes, 2019
Director : Lassaad HAJJI (Tunisia)
Production : Lassaad HAJJI (Tunisia), Al Jazeera Documentary Channel (Qatar)

His boat sank in the Mediterranean. The whole crew perished. He is the only survivor. The camera follows him as he decides to relive this miracle and talk about the dramatic twists and turns he has experienced.

Having left the University of Sciences, Lassaad HAJJI trained in video techniques (sound and image) in various Tunisian post-production companies. In 2009, after more than eight years experience in editing, he began making documentaries with Cinétéléfilms. “El Kontra” was his first documentary feature (Special Award of the Douz Doc Days jury), followed by “Abdelaziz Thaalbi”, “Maluf” and “Sfax intramuros”. “Yahia the survivor” is his most recent film.

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VITORIA, MARS 1976

(Vitoria, March 1976)

21 minutes, 2019
Director : Luis E. HERRERO (Spain)
Production : Hanoi Films (Spain), Aved Producciones (Spain)

At the beginning of 1976 Spain was caught in a spiral of conflict. Following Franco’s death the fragile political situation was aggravated by the impact of the crisis, pushing the government into a corner. In Vitoria, workers’ assemblies called for a strike on March 3^rd. A tragedy loomed which would mark Spain’s transition towards democracy.

Born in Madrid in 1976, Luis E. HERRERO is a historian, film-maker and cultural researcher. His work in the field of research and the dissemination of culture has led him to collaborate with various institutions and to produce several publications on history, art and cinema. Within the Hanoi Films production company specializing in documentary cinema, he has directed and produced historical documentaries: “El Entusiasmo” (2018, 80 minutes) and “Vitoria, mars 1976” (2019, 22 minutes).

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Selection 2021

PARADISE

20 minutes, 2020
Director : Mateo CABEZA (Spain)
Production : Habitat Films (Spain)

Ahmed, Taha – the intimacy between a father and his son surviving in a children’s hospital.

Born in Seville in 1986, Mateo CABEZA is a director, researcher and teacher of creative documentary film.
He trained in different film specialities: photography, editing, sound, production, artistic design. He has taken courses and workshops with artists and film-makers such as Víctor Erice, José Luis Guerín, Ricardo Íscar and Nicolas Philibert.

He is part of the generation of new Andalusian cinema, films which have a realistic and social character. They have won numerous awards and been shown in over twenty countries.

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Selection 2021

LA NAPOLI DI MIO PADRE

(The Naples of My Father)

20 minutes, 2020
Director : Alessia BOTTONE (Italy)
Production : Alessia BOTTONE (Italy)
In collaboration with Istituto Luce Cinecittà (Italy), AAMOD – Archivio Audiovisivo del Movimento Operaio e Democratico (Italy), K-Studio (Italy)

Giuseppe used to stare at the horizon as if there was something liberating about it. His daughter Alessia, the director of this film, would often see him staring out the window like that, wondering what could attract his attention so intensely.
Giuseppe’s story revolves around the themes of exile and fear of the unknown, which bind Italy’s 20^th century migrants, cardboard suitcases in hand, to today’s migrants landing on the country’s southern coast. As the train devours the rails mile after mile, Alessia comes to understand what her father was thinking and seeing: his memories. The return to Naples becomes the opportunity to tell his life’s journey and thus discover her own origins. Because no matter how far we go, we always come back to where it all began.

Alessia BOTTONE is a director, screenwriter and journalist. She graduated in Institutions and Policies for Human Rights and Peace, and completed the Carlo Mazzacurati Master in Screenwriting at the University of Padua.
She wrote and directed a short film about the psychological violence suffered by women, “Violenza invisibile”, and two documentaries “Ritratti in controuce” and “Ieri come oggi”. In 2013 she published “Amore ai tempi dello stage” and in 2015 “Papà mi presti i soldi che devo lavorare?”. In 2017, she won several awards: the Claudia Basso Award for Journalism for the Pfas survey, the Alessandra Bisceglia Award for social communication and finally the Massimiliano Goattin Award for making a video survey about architectural barriers. In 2018, she was among the finalists for the Cesare Zavattini Award for a project using archival film creatively and the Luzzati Award for short films. “La Napoli di mio padre” is her first archival-based short film. It won a Special Mention at the Nastri d’Argento in 2021.

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