Category "Mediterranean Challenges"

Et le roi créa la femme by Michaelle Gagnet

Production: Doc en Stock | Country: France | Year: 2005 | Duration: 45'
Synopsis: In Morocco: extraordinary women long for freedom and fight strenuously, also thanks to the King and the new Family code…

Inchiodato by Elvira Dones / Fulvio Mariani

Production: TSI / Federico Jolli | Country: Switzerland | Year: 2004 | Duration: 52'
Synopsis: In the Cursed Mountains of Albania, along with tragic archaism, slow and implacable rituals and customary law: the Kanun, the Code…

La parola mafia by Roberto Olla

Production: RAI, Speciale Tg1 | Country: Italy | Year: 2004 | Duration:57'
Synopsis: Rita Borsellino, sister of the judge killed near Palermo in 1992; Felicia Impastato, Peppino's elderly mother…

Mekudeshet by Anat Zuria

Production: Amythos Films Ltd. | Country: Israel | Year: 2004 | Duration: 65'
Synopsis: Three Israeli women try to obtain a divorce, with the help of a group of female orthodox rabbinical advocates: it's so difficult, if the husband…

Passagères clandestines by Lode Desmet

Production: Simple production / Kathleen de Béthune | Country: Belgium | Year: 2003 | Duration: 61'
Synopsis: The clandestine journey of 3 Syrian women (mother, two daughters) through the marshlands between Turkey and Greece, helped by the Arab Djouma…

Tripoli, ville entr'ouverte by Philippe Fréling

Production: Mérapi Productions | Country: France | Year: 2004 | Duration: 52'
Synopsis: The changing of Libia, and Tripoli in particular, when the country begins to open itself to the West, to the market…

Category "Memories of the Mediterranean"

Alger, Oran, Paris. Les années music-hall by Michèle Mira Pons

Production:Seafilms Production / Valérie Cohen | Country: France | Year: 2003 | Duration: 52
Synopsis: Society as a whole won by the Algerian music-hall, on rythms of rumba, cha-cha-cha, tango and other Arab-Andalusian sounds…

Companeros by Catherine Ulmer

Production: Alokatu S.L | Country: Spain | Year: 2004 | Duration: 52'
Synopsis: The old age seen by the last fighters survived after the most bloody battle of the Spanish civil war…

Driven out for Peace by Okkan Osman / Sitte Simone

Production: Astrid Vandekerkhove / Schnittstelle Film / Video Gmbh | Country: Germany | Year: 2003 Duration:54'

Synopsis: Ethnical exchanges between Turkey and Greece in 1923: 1,5 million of Greeks and 500 thousand Turkish forced to leave their homeland, although…

L'apocalypse des Teigneux by David Belhassen / Asher Hemias

Production: Dubi Bergman / Centre de communication Dimona / D.B Films | Country: Israel | Year: 2003
Duration: 47'
Synopsis: Inquiry about a criminal medical experiment on 100 thousand Nord-african children, under the pretext of eradicating a terrible infection: the tinea capitis…

Vivre à Tazmamart by Davy Zylberfajn

Production: Cauri Films / Marie-Claude Reverdin | Country: France | Year: 2005 | Duration: 72'
Synopsis: Due to an absolute power, from 1973 to 1991, for 18 years, 58 men live as prisoners in complete isolation, in Tazmamart. They are…

Vukovar by Michel Anglade / Hervé Ghesquière

Production: Zarafa Films | Country: France | Year: 2005 | Duration: 52'
Synopsis: In the city of the lost souls, the city of wolves, the most bombed city of Europe since the end of the second world war, it happened…

Category "Mediterranean Creativity"

BerlinBeirut by Myrna Maakaron

Production: Credofilm | Country: Germany / Lebanon | Year: 2003 | Duration: 23'
Synopsis: By foot, by bike, by taxi, we pass continuously from a city to the other, from Beirut to Berlin, in a single space-time…

Dali, vivir para no morir by Carmen Paez

Production: Jordi Llado / Pillar Lacalle | Country: Spain | Year: 2004 | Duration: 26'
Synopsis: Life and work of Salvador Dali, told by himself…

My American Family by Jerzy Sladwoski

Production: Hysteria Film AB | Country: Sweden | Year: 2004 | Duration: 82'
Synopsis: A Polish director tells about the family Merenda, emigrated from Calabria to the Usa. From Sweden also arrives in Kansas…

Pork and Milk by Valérie Mrejen

Production: Aurora Films | Country: France | Year: 2004 | Duration: 52
Synopsis: Going out from ultra-orthodoxy of a group of Jewish people of Tel-Aviv, first steps as laymen, conflicts in everyday life…

Querido by Reine Mitri

Production: Reine Mitri | Country: Lebanon | Year: 2003 | Duration: 17'
Synopsis: A videoclip which is also a letter opened up on life in front of the pc, the e-mails, the correspondence, the individual time, the cinema…

Song remains the same by Haris Prolic

Production: Flash Production | Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina | Year: 2004 | Duration: 50'
Synopsis: The song is a story of my homeland: the Bosnia-Herzegovina. It has been written from a Herzegovinian prisoner in the camp of…

Category "Art and Heritage of the Mediterranean"

All that Glitters by Irene Petropoulou

Production: Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology | Country: Greece | Year: 2003 | Duration: 33'
Synopsis: In the balance between tradition and globalization in the Greek village of Olympus. In summer, during the festival of the Virgin…

Asco, intérieur corse by Dominique Maestrali / David Desramé

Production: Accaan (Atelier cinéma de Normandie) | Country: France | Year: 2003 | Duration: 52'
Synopsis: Between past and present, besides every stereotype, Corsica: the identity feeds on deep contradictions, having roots…

Fotograf Boris Cvitanovic by Annamarija Ganza Habjan

Production: HRT | Country: Croatia | Year: 2003 | Duration: 30'
Synopsis: Portrait of a photographer of Adriatic origin with a passion for the social issues, the marginal details, daily topics…

La Cathédrale de Justo by Xavier Baudoin

Production: Les productions de l'œil sauvage | Country: France | Year: 2003 | Duration: 56'
Synopsis: A former trappist monk launched into the building of a cathedral in the Madrid’s suburbs. He was the fool of the village, now become…

Les voiles de la paix by Philippe Vallois

Production: Philippe Vallois | Country: France | Year: 2004 | Duration: 61'
Synopsis: Young Israeli women show a growing interest in Arab music and belly dance. A step ahead towards a new…

Tapiès Tea by Carolina Tubau / Ramon Millà

Production: Televisio de Catalunya | Country: Spain | Year: 2004 | Duration: 64'
Synopsis: The afternoon tea’s rite triggers off a travel to discover Antoni Tapiès, his artistic, intellectual, affective world…

Category "Reportage of The Mediterranean"

Checkpoint by Yoav Shamir

Production: Amythos Films Ltd. | Country: Israel | Year: 2003 | Duration: 80'
Synopsis: More than 3 million Palestinians leave under Israeli occupation. In order to move, to go to work, to follow treatment, to visit friends…

Israël: Démocratie ou Théocratie by Vincent Nguyen / Mathieu Dreujou

Production: France 2 / Un oeil sur la planète / Patrick Boitet | Country: France | Year: 2004 | Duration: 20'
Synopsis: “Those who fear God”, “the men in black”: they are the ultra-orthodox, a minority that seems to have come form another Age. Folklore? Yet…

Il Fantasma di Corleone by Marco Amenta

Production: Eurofilm s.r.l | Country: Italy | Year: 2004 | Duration: 60'
Synopsis: Can a man live on an island for 40 years, hunted down by over 400 men from the police and secret service, and still continue to be the head of…

Melilla - Europe's Outpost in Africa by Driss Deiback

Production: Stephan Lamby / Eco Media TV / Production Gmbh | Country: Germany | Year: 2004 | Duration: 45'
Synopsis: One of the most overseen border in the world: 25 watchtowers, 42 cameras. It is the Spanish Melilla, which lies in the Nord of Morocco…

Morire di Pace by Sabrina Giannini

Production: RAI 3 | Country: Italy | Year: 2004 | Duration: 53'
Synopsis: The Nato and depleted uranium weapons, the leukemias, the “syndrome of Balkans”, the cancer of the blood, the truths of the WHO and UN…

Traversée clandestine by Grégoire Deniau

Production: France 2 | Country: France | Year: 2004 | Duration: 49'
Synopsis: “Hell in Europe is paradise in Africa”. Thousands of clandestine immigrants try to change continent. Through the entry points, Spain…