Category "Mediterranean Challenges"

Aliénations by Malek Bensmail

Production: Les Films du Village Paris | Country: France | Year: 2003 | Duration: 105’
Synopsis: The Algerian society has undergone deap upheavals over the last century. They began when colonization brought two cultures in violent contact…

Al-Jazira. Des Voix Arabes by Ali Essafi

Production: Ardèche Images Production | Country: Morocco/France | Year: 2003 | Duration: 52'
Synopsis: If Al-Jazira has taken the lead as the most popular station in the Arab world and everywhere there are Arabs, it is thanks to the contribution of a generation of journalists…

Les passeurs by Laetitia Moreau

Production: Little Bear | Country: France | Year: 2003 | Duration: 52'
Synopsis: For 5 years now, nearly 4000 clandestine immigrants, most of them Moroccan, have drowned trying to cross the Straits of Gibraltar. In view of the increasing victims-dreadful…

Arna’s Children by Juliano Mer Khamis

Production: Trabelsi Productions | Country: Israel/Palestine | Year: 2003 | Duration: 84'
Synopsis: Yussef committed a suicide attack in 2001. Ashraf was killed by the Israeli army in 2002. Alla led a group of resistance fighters to death in 2003. The director, who documented…

Tarifa Traffic by Joakim Demmer

Production: Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion | Country: Switzerland | Year: 2003 | Duration: 60’
Synopsis: Gibraltar is the outermost border of fortress Europe. Every year ten thousands of illegal immigrants from Africa are trying to cross the Straits between Morocco and Spain…

Le sitcom de Ramadam by Ranwa Stéphan

Production: Sunset Presse | Country: France | Year: 2003 | Duration: 26'
Synopsis: Ramadam begins in just a few days. Throughout the Arab world, almost 300 million people are getting ready for the most important audio-visual event of the year: a TV series…

Stories of Catalonia: Religions by Joan Gallifa

Production: Televisio de Catalunya Sant Joan Despi | Country: Spain | Year: 2003 | Duration: 28’ 38’’
Synopsis: One of the most burning social issues of the 21 st century is religious tolerance. It seems to be hard for people of different faiths to live in peace in the same country. But this is…

Category "Memories of the Mediterranean"

Joan March: Els negocis de la guerra by Genovès M. Dolors

Production: Televisio de Catalunya | Country: Spain | Year: 2003 | Duration: 94'
Synopsis: “Joan March: the Business of War” is the first documentary ever made on this secret, mysterious magnate, popularly known as the “Franco’s banker”. But Joan March…

Matzpen by Eran Torbiner

Production: Matar Plus | Country: Israel | Year: 2003 | Duration: 56'
Synopsis: The Israeli socialist organization, has never had more than a few dozen active members. Still, at the end of the sixties and beginning of the seventies, it was considered a…

Melillenses by Moisès Salama

Production: Atico Siete | Country: Spain | Year: 2004 | Duration: 76'
Synopsis: “I don’t know what you want to see, but I do know what I’m going to show you”. With these admonitory words from Culi, an old friend who is her indigenous guide in the…

Riso e patate by Italo Todde

Production: Politically Incorrect.it | Country: Italy | Year: 2003 | Duration: 59'
Synopsis: September 5 th 1938 an 11 year-old child has to abdicate his medal to the value because he discovers to be Jewish. This memory will accompany him for his entire life. Rice and potatoes is a…

Une autre guerre d'Algérie by Djamel Zaoui

Production: Leitmotiv Production | Country: France | Year: 2003 | Duration: 52'
Synopsis: 2003, year of Algeria....Forty years after the events, nothing has removed from the memory a bloody and shameful war, made of massacres, tortures and betrayals. Nonetheless…

Voies du Rebetiko by Timon Koulmasis / Iro Siafliaki

Production: Zeta Productions | Country: France | Year: 2003 | Duration: 52'
Synopsis: The “Rebetiko” is the Greek popular song par excellence. This song, born in the seedy parts of the Piraeus at the beginning of the century, tells with simple words the life of simple…

Category "Mediterranean Creativity"

L'esprit et le coeur by Molka Mahdaoui

Production: Les Films du Village | Country: France | Year: 2003 | Duration: 51'40''
Synopsis: Heart and Spirit is a journey: during this journey we absorb music, chants, rhythms, faces and places. It is an everyday life spirituality taking place in families’ homes…

Fellini, sono un gran bugiardo by Damian Pettigrew

Production: Portrait & Cie | Country: France | Year: 2002 | Duration: 101'
Synopsis: An irreverent portrait of Federico Fellini told in his own words (the interviews are the last major filmed conversations with the maestro conducted in 1991 and 1992 by the director himself)…

Intihar by Eliane Raheb

Production: 03 Productions | Country: Lebanon | Year: 2003 | Duration: 26'
Synopsis: The fall of the Iraqi regime. A reality epitomized by the plummet of Saddam Hussein’s statue in the centre of Baghdad. Upon these scenes, the filmmaker stands shocked…

Abandoned Eden by Eno Milkani

Production: Besnik Bisha - B&G Filmpro | Country: Albania | Year: 2002 | Duration: 20'
Synopsis: This non-narrative documentary, poetically depicts the despair and loneliness of older Albanians who are left alone after their children have emigrated in search of a better…

Invasion by Nizar Hassan

Production: Dar Production | Country: Israel/Palestine | Year: 2003 | Duration: 59'
Synopsis: An Israeli Soldier views a documentary about the aftermath of the Israel invasion in Jenin camp. He was one of the bulldozer drivers that caused massive destruction in the camp…

Rice girls by Matteo Bellizzi

Production: Stefilm International s.r.l (Stefano Tealdi) | Country: Italy | Year: 2003| Duration: 56'
Synopsis: After the war, young girls were hired as seasonal workers in the rice paddies of the Piedmont region. “Riso amaro”, a masterpiece of Italian neo-realistic cinema, brought their…