LES PIEDS-NOIRS D’ALGÉRIE, UNE HISTOIRE FRANÇAISE

(Pieds-noirs of Algeria, a French Story)

75 minutes, 2017
Director : Jean-François DELASSUS (France)
Production : Roche Productions (France)

In 1962, when Algeria declared independence after a civil war which had torn the country apart, nearly a million French people living in Algeria were forced to leave. Leaving the land where they were born, these men, women and their children arrived in France, a “fatherland” which most of them scarcely knew and where they were not expected. Who were they? What was their life like on the other side of the Mediterranean? Under what conditions did they return to metropolitan France, how did they manage to integrate? Through the testimonies of people who came back to France, of Algerians and historians, another look at the little-known history of these “Pieds-noirs” from Algeria.

Jean-François DELASSUS is a French journalist and film-maker. Graduate of Sciences Po, he worked first as a journalist for the written press, mainly as the Figaro’s Far East correspondent, and for radio (Europe 1 and France Inter). He is also a photographer for the Gamma agency. He has published “Japon, monstre ou modèle” (1971) which won the Albert Londres Award. He has been particularly noticed for his historical documentaries, shown on the major French channels as well in many foreign countries, such as “Somme 1916, la bataille insensée” (52 minutes, France 3, 2016), “Délivrance. Noël 1944 – 8 mai 1945, une fin de guerre” (90 minutes, TF1, 2015), “Le Front Populaire, à nous la vie” (90 minutes, France 2, 2011), “14-18, le bruit et la fureur” (100 minutes, France 2, 2008), which won an Étoile from the Scam (Société Civile des Auteurs Multimedias).

 

FRIENDS FOES

51 minutes, 2017
Director : Sead KRESEVLJAKOVIC and Emir ZUMBUL KAPETANOVIC (Bosnia)
Production : Al Jazeera Balkans, Alhemija Film (Bosnia)

Dane and Daut faced each other in the 1990’s during the war in Bosnia. Both were on the front line during the Bosnian Serb army’s attack on a Bosnian village near Srebrenica. Daut fired at Dane and assumed he’d killed him. Years later, crossing Dane’s path by chance, Daut discovered that his “victim” had survived. The starting point of their friendship. Today, even though the scars of war are deep and have left their mark in the Srebrenica region, Dane and Daut are working together to survive, in a difficult economic situation which still divides Bosnia, two decades after the war.


Sead KREŠEVLJAKOVIĆ was born in Sarajevo in 1973. Between 2007 and 2012, he was a producer and editor in the documentary department of TV Sarajevo, while also making his way as a freelance. Since 2012 he has worked as a producer in the programme department of Al Jazeera Balkans.

Emir ZUMBUL KAPETANOVIĆ was born in Sarajevo in 1981, where he studied at the Theatre Arts Academy. In 2008 he created a production company Alhemija Film, through which he makes documentary and experimental films.

STRANGE FISH

53 minutes, 2018
Director : Giulia BERTOLUZZI (Italy)
Production : Small Boss (Italy)

“Strange Fish” echoes Billie Holiday’s song “Strange Fruit” in which, to general indifference, violence against coloured people is taken as normal, with « black bodies swinging in the southern breeze, strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees». In the southern Mediterranean the feeling is the same. The fishermen in Zarzis, a Tunisian town on the borders of Libya, set out each day wondering whether they will find a strange fish in their nets, the bloated corpse of a drowned emigrant. But Bertoluzzi’s documentary does not only show this drama, with its all-pervading indifference. It rather shows the deep and human response of the town’s anonymous heroes. For 15 years, these fishermen have helped and saved thousands of people. “And if we find them already dead, we help them as well – we bury them”, says Chamseddine Marzoug.

Giulia BERTOLUZZI is a journalist and co-founder of Nawart Press, a platform of free-lance journalists. In 2017, she won the Media Migration Award for her project “Strange Fish”. In 2016/2017, she co-wrote and co-directed “Far Right: a new frightening normal”, a documentary on the rise of the extreme right in Europe, broadcast by Al Jazeera. In 2016, she was nominated for the Doc/IT Women Award at the Venice Festival for “A Kurdish Women’s Dream”. In 2015, Rai Storia broadcast the itinerant project “Railway Diaries: A Woman’s World”, a long reportage on the Silk Road giving women the chance to speak, exceptional protagonists of their time. In 2014, she won the Morrione Ilaria Alpi Award with her first documentary “A Submerged Story”, an investigation into the traffic of archaeological objects in post-revolutionary Égypt.

MARSEILLE, ILS ONT TUÉ MON FILS

(Marseilles, They’ve Killed My Son)

55 minutes, 2018
Direction : Édouard BERGEON and Philippe PUJOL (France)
Production : Cocottesminute productions, with the participation of Public Sénat and France Télévisions
(France)

Souad, Baya and Cécile: three mothers in Marseilles.They watched their sons grow up in the city’s
northern neighbourhoods, and then watched them lose themselves there. Sometimes die. These mothers tell us in fragments how they survive, stuck in tower-blocks which they cannot leave and where they are slowly consumed by their own grief. Through memories of the past, the daily chaos of their lives and their efforts to find a future, the film tells the story of these women who have lost their child.

 

 

Édouard BERGEON is an author and director. His film “Les fils de la terre” on the unhappiness of farmers, directly inspired by his father’s tragic example, won many distinctions in France and abroad: Jury Mention at the 2012 FIPA, Best First Film FIGRA 2012, Finalist for the Albert Londres Award, an Étoile at the SCAM (Société Civile des Auteurs Multimédias) and selected for the official competition at IDFA – Amsterdam.

Philippe PUJOL is a Marseilles-based journalist, author and director. He won the 2014 Albert Londres Award for his series of articles on Marseilles’ northern neighbourhoods: “Quartiers shit”. In 2012 he had already won the Premier Prix Varenne PQR for his newspaper series “French deconnection”, published in La Marseillaise. From these two series came his first book “French deconnection: au coeur des trafics”. He has also written “La fabrique du monstre: 10 ans d’immersion dans les
quartiers nord de Marseille, la zone la plus pauvre d’Europe” (2016), “Mon cousin le fasciste” (2017) et “Marseille 2040. Le jour où notre système de santé craquera” (2018).

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LIBYE, ANATOMIE D’UN CRIME

(Libya, Anatomy of a Crime)

69 minutes, 2018
Director : Cécile ALLEGRA (France, Italy)
Production : Cinétévé, Arte (France)

Yassine, Nazir and Ahmed have escaped from Libya, the land of their birth. Like ghosts they wander in
Tunis, bearing within them a heavy secret. They come across a handful of investigators, Libyan
resistance fighters also exiled in Tunisia, and tell their confused, painful story. Two of the investigators,
Emad et Ramadan, obstinate but caring, follow-up the scraps of information given by these three damaged men. When their eye-witness statements are put together, they reveal the outlines of an unprecedented crime: since the Revolution the systematic rape of Libyan men on a massive scale. An unspeakable crime which history is trying to suppress.

Born in Rome, Cécile ALLEGRA studied political science and philosophy before turning to documentary film-making. In 2015 she won the Albert Londres Award. For 15 years she has worked around the world as a documentary director and reporter. Her films have been shown mainly on Arte and France Télévisions. They have been selected for and won awards at many festivals in France and abroad. Her documentary “Voyage en Barbarie” won the Grand Prix du Documentaire Enjeux Méditerranéens at the 2015 PriMed. In 2016 she published “Le salaire des enfants” at Le Editions Stock, finalist for the Livre Européen Award.

ASHBAL, LES LIONCEAUX DU CALIFAT

(Ashbal, the lion cubs of the Caliphat)

52 minutes, 2017
Directors : Thomas DANDOIS (France, UK) and François-Xavier TRÉGAN (France)
Production : Arte, Memento (France)

They are aged between 4 and 16 ans. In the Islamic State they are known as ashbal, the Caliphate’s lion cubs. These children have spent months in training camps being badly treated and brain-washed, then sent to the front line. After many months gradually getting to know them, the directors were able to gain the confidence of these damaged kids and their families. They agreed to open up. “Ashbal, les lionceaux du califat” is their story.

Thomas DANDOIS is a Franco-British director.
He is principally known for making documentaries around the world. He’s made around thirty films: “Ashbal, les lionceaux du califat” for Arte, “Les enfants de la jungle” (2016) for France 5, “Daesh, paroles de déserteurs” (2013) for Arte, “Aung San Suu Kyi, la liberté en héritage” (2011) for France 5, “Mogadiscio, capitale fantôme” for Arte, and more than 15 26 – minute reports for Arte Reportage, including “Gaza, la grande évasion” (Best Reportage Award at FIGRA 2016) and “Tunisie, sur le chemin de la démocratie” (Best Reportage Award at FIGRA 2012).

François-Xavier TRÉGAN is a reporter / director. Having studied history at the Michel de Montaigne University of Bordeaux and at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales in Paris, he lived in Damascus from 1992 to 1998. Foreign correspondent for Le Monde in the Yemen from 2011 to 2015, François-Xavier also produced the documentary programme Sur les Docks for France Culture. He also contributes to several magazines such as XXI, L’Express, L’Obs, GEO, Radio Canada, etc. Among his most recent films shown on Arte: “Roméo et Juliette, un amour de guerre” in 2015, and “Au Yémen, dans les couloirs de la mort” in 2014. Their documentary “Daesh, paroles de déserteurs” won the Broadcasting Award France 3 Corse ViaStella at the 2016 PriMed

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Analysis of registered films at PriMed 2018

graphiquesFind here the graphics and all the data on the films registered. For the 22nd edition of PriMed we received 388 films from 40 countries.

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Chart 1 – Nationalities of registered films at PriMed 2018

Chart 2 – Registered Films by category (PriMed 2018)

Chart 3 – History of the number of registered films 2002/2018

Chart 4 – History of the number of registered films by country 2014/2018 (5 last editions)

  

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©CMCA 2018 – data development by FF Revelli

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The best moments of PriMed 2017

Relive here the best moments of the 21st edition of PriMed which took place in Marseille from 19 to 24 November 2017. Thank you to the public, directors, producers, broadcasters, high school students and teachers, you all contributed to the success of this great event.

A big thank you also to all the volunteers and especially to all our partners, the Alcazar library, the Mucem and the Villa Méditerranée.

 

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Copyright CMCA, photos by F. Revelli, J. Cohen et M.C.Ferrando

See the photo galleries of the old PriMed editions HERE