PriMed 2025 registrations, find here the application form to register your films. The deadline to submit your films is April 27, 2025. Registration is free and can be done online.
The PriMed – International Festival for Mediterranean Documentary and Reportage is open to all authors, directors, producers and broadcasters who, through their programs or their works, contribute to a better knowledge of the countries of the Mediterranean basin in the broad sense, of the coasts of Atlantic to the Black Sea. The audiovisual works presented deal with subjects relating to issues, culture, heritage, history, societies and the lives of women and men in Mediterranean countries. They must not have any advertising or propaganda character.
Each work can only compete in one category, this choice must be clearly expressed in the registration form.
Conditions of participation
The presented films:
- must have been produced after January 1st, 2024;
- must not have already been submitted to a previous edition of the PriMed;
- in the case of a documentary series or a film with more than one episode, only one episode can be submitted;
- in the case of a co-production, the program may only be entered into the competition by one of the producers, with prior agreement from the other partners. The name of all the co-producers must be included in the application form.
The Awards
Grand Prix “Mediterranean Issues”
This prize is given to the best film (documentary or reportage) on a current Mediterranean subject, lasting more than 30 minutes. It picks out productions that improve our understanding of the present situation in the Mediterranean and rewards a director’s skill at questioning events and putting them into perspective, as well as his capacity to listen to the principal characters.
“Mediterranean Memories” Award
This prize rewards the documentary lasting more than 30 minutes, which – with or without archives – most successfully places in a present-day context historical events concerning the Mediterranean, stories of men and women, whether individual or collective, or places of symbolism and memory.
“First Film” Award
This award recognizes the talent of a film director who made no more than three films. Works produced as part of a school or training can also compete. Running time must exceed 30 minutes.
“Mediterranean Art, Heritage and Cultures” Award
This prize rewards the documentary film lasting more than 30 minutes, which highlights the region’s artistic life (music, plastic arts, live theatre, visual arts), its heritage (sites, monuments, works of art, archaeology, architecture) and other instances of Mediterranean culture (cuisine, folklore and traditions).
Mediterranean Young People Award
This award is given by a jury of high school students from the Sud Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur Region and from Mediterranean countries. It rewards one of the films chosen between a selection made by the CMCA.
“Mediterranean Short Doc” Award – Audience Award
This award is for a documentary or a reportage – lasting less than 30 minutes – whose subject is about the Mediterranean area.
These awards are for the directors and authors of the work concerned.
Broadcasting Awards
In addition, broadcasting awards may be given by representatives of the television companies and are entirely at their discretion. They will be chosen from amongst any of the films in the final selection. The broadcast of any work thus rewarded has to be agreed individually between the broadcaster and the makers of the film.
ALL THE PARTNERS OF 28e ÉDITION
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The CMCA is the main organizer of the event in collaboration with France Télévisions, RAI, INA and ASBU.