04/10/2024 – The 46th edition of the festival will take place in Montpellier from October 18 to 26, with 200 titles on display including nine fiction features targeting the Golden Antigone
Vermiglio or the Mountain Bride by Maura Delpero
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interview : Francesca Comencini
fiche film] from the Italian Francesca Comencini et The Mohican [+lire aussi :
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interview : Frédéric Farrucci
fiche film] from French Frederic Farruccithese are two films recently appreciated in Venice, which will open and close the 46th Montpellier Mediterranean Cinema Festival (from October 18 to 26). As usual, Cinemed (which attracted 62,000 spectators last year) will deploy a very copious program of around 200 titles illustrating all the diversity and dynamism of the 7th art throughout the Mediterranean basin. All including tributes in their presence to the Italian actress Alba Rohrwacher (in 13 films), to the French actor and now director Reda Kateb (in 12 films including his first feature film On a thread) and the Spanish director Rodrigo Sorogoyen (in six films and one series episode).
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Nine fiction feature films will compete for the 2024 Antigone d’Or: Vermiglio or the Mountain Bride [+lire aussi :
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interview : Maura Delpero
fiche film] from the Italian Maura Delpero (Grand Prize in Venice and candidate for his country in the race for the 2025 Oscar for best international film), The crying [+lire aussi :
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interview : Pedro Martín-Calero et Isa…
fiche film] from Spanish Pedro Martín-Calero (recent directing prize in San Sebastián), Meat [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] from Greek Dimitris Nakos (passé par Toronto Discovery), To an unknown country [+lire aussi :
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interview : Mahdi Fleifel
fiche film] from Dano-Palestinian Mahdi Fleifel (discovered at the Quinzaine des Cinéastes), The Virgin and Child [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] of the Belgian of Kurdish origin Binevsa Berivan, Aisha [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] you Tunisia Mehdi M. Barsaoui (unveiled in Venice, in the Orizzonti program), Panopticon [+lire aussi :
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interview : George Sikharulidze
fiche film] from Georgian George Sikharulidze (appreciated in competition in Karlovy Vary) and Hayat (Life) from Turkish Zeki Demirkubuz.
The seven feature films in the Panorama section will also be in the running for the Audience Award: documentaries Daughters of the Nile [+lire aussi :
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interview : Nada Riyadh et Ayman El Amir
fiche film] of the Egyptians Nada Riyadh et Ayman El Amir (discovered at Critics’ Week), The Words They Had One Day from French Raphael Pillosio (awarded at Cinéma du Réel) and Diaries from Lebanon [+lire aussi :
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interview : Myriam El Hajj
fiche film] of the Lebanese Myriam El Hajj (unveiled at the Berlinale Panorama), and the fictions Simple loves [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] from the Spanish Celia Rico Clavellino (awarded in Malaga), The Red Children [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] from Franco-Tunisian Lotfi Achour (passed by Locarno Cinéastes du present), The Blue Lake from Moroccan Daoud Aoulad-Syad et sapling from the Turk Aycil Yeltan.
The Documentary competition will feature eight titles: Green Line [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] of Sylvie Ballyot (crowned best first film at Locarno), The staggering boxer from French Lo ThivolleBelgian production The Roller, the Life, the Fight [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] from the Italian Electra Need and the Palestinian Hazem Alqaddi, Mine [+lire aussi :
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interview : Samira El Mouzghibati
fiche film] of the Belgian-Moroccan Samira El Mouzghibati, Blueberry Dreams of the Georgian Elena Mikaberidze, 1489 [+lire aussi :
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interview : Shoghakat Vardanyan
fiche film] from Armenian Shoghakat Vardanyan, Signs of life (Signs of life) from Italian Leandro Picarella et The Wasp and the Orchid you Tunisia Saber Zammouri.
Numerous previews (almost all in the presence of the filmmakers) complete the Cinemed program, including films that came straight from the San Sebastián competition (such as the documentary Lonely afternoons [+lire aussi :
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interview : Albert Serra
fiche film] from Spanish Albert Serrawinner of the Golden Shell for best film, or The Last Breath [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] of Costa Gavras), as well as The Thieving Magpie of Robert Guédiguian.
All without forgetting, among other things, a zoom on “the audacity of young Moroccan cinema”, a retrospective Luigi Comencini in 23 films, special screenings (including the documentary series The century of Costa Gavras of Yannick Kergoat), a competition and a panorama of short films, a masterclass of Nicolas Seydoux (Gaumont), screenings for young audiences, a “night in hell” (in five films) and from October 22 to 24 the professional days of the Cinemed Meetings, which Cineuropa will return to in detail later.
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