where and when
where: Cagliari,
Cittadella dei Musei
Piazza Arsenale
(quartiere di Castello)
Cagliari:locations of the XII Edition
when:
from Monday 10th December to Sunday 16th December 2007
The Prize is to be held in the city of Cagliari in collaboration with the City Councillor to Tourism, Crafts, and Commerce of the Independent Region of Sardegna
FINALISTS WORKS OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION:
category “MEDITERRANEAN MEMORIES”
Il mio paese
J’en ai vu des étoiles
Jérusalem au nom du père et du fils
Les pieds noirs, histoires d’une blessure (Les années romantiques)
The Forgotten
Wasted
Il mio paese
Film Director Daniele Vicari-2006-113 minutes
Production: Vivo Film (Gregorio Paonessa)-Italy
Between 1959 and 1960 one of the most prestigious documentary makers of the history of cinema, Joris Ivens,- on commission of the president of the Eni. Enrico Mattei, accomplished a film with an emblematic title, “L’Italia non e un paese povero”,” Italy is not a poor country” Taking a long journey, which begins from the North ; which had already been rebuilt after the second world war, to the South, still a land of farmers, Ivens tells of the industrialization difficulties of the country at the beginning of its economic boom.
What has remained of that dream today? Between 2005 and 2006 Daniele Vicari travelled through Italy in the opposite direction, he chronicles about a present situation marked by an internal economic crisis, and consequently losing in international competivity. In his journey, from the industrial Sicily of Gela and Termini Imerese, passing through Melfi, to the laboratories of the Enea in Rome, where research on alternative energy is done; to the city of Prato, which deals with the complexity of a dynamic Chinese immigration., until Porto Marghera , Vicari tells of a country in difficulty, but that is emerging from a decline, to an Italy of a new transformation.
Daniele Vicari shoots his short film, “Il nuovo” in 1993 and his second “Mari del Sud” in 1996. Following, he makes several documentaries from 1997 to 1999. In 2000 he shoots a short film “Morto che parla”before making his first film, “Velocita Massima” in competition at the 59th Festival of Venice. His second film “L’orizzonte degli eventi”
J’en ai vu des étoiles
Film Director: Hichem Ben Ammar-2007-75 minutes
Production: 5/5 Productions- Tunisi
Looking over some aged pages of an important album, “J’en ai vu des etoiles” traces in a chronological manner the history of Boxing in Tunisi, from the begining of the 19th century to nowadays.The figure of the “boxer” is seen, from one decade to another, as the emblem of vitality of an epoch: from Hassen El Karreche, the seller of giblets of mythological strength, then to the World Champion , the Israeli Young Perez, who made entire generations dream, or to great stars such as, Sadok Bahir, Hedi Tijani, Bill Joe, Rezgui, Ben Salah, Omrane Sadok, Tahar Belhassen, up to the present champion Walid Smichet, who lives in Montreal.
The documentary chronicles itself as a book full of images that portraits humanity, highlighting the glory of the Tunisian Boxing.
Hichem Ben Ammar was born in Tunisi in 1958, film director, and producer, he then becomes audiovisual-orientated, thanks to his studies at the Beaux Arts in Tunisi. Today, he teaches at the Institut de Presse et des Sciences de l’Information (IPSI). Cineclub entertainer, charge of cinematic techniques, director of events, member organiser of the Association of Cinematography Critics (ATPCC), does publicity spots, and institutional films, before turning to his vocation of the documentary.
“Cafichanta” (2000), “Rais Labhar” (2002) and J’en ai vu des etoiles” (2006) they belong to a series of documentaries dedicated to corporations currently in the traditional Tunisian culture, that relate to, travelling artists, fishermen of tuna fish, and that of “ boxers.”
Jérusalem au nom du père et du fils
Film Director: Marc Irondelle and Marc Toulin-2006-52 minutes
Producer: Mil Sabords-France.
The extraordinary work of a family of Armenian photographers, who, during three generations, took thousands of pictures of daily life in Jerusalem, beginning from the 20’s. The film tells the story of the family, from grandfather to grandson who inherited this patrimony and passion for photography.Always on the background, the constant view of the “immortal” Jerusalem, land of conflicts.
Marc Irondelle is a journalist. Since 1995 he has been creator and director of the editorial agency Edites (communication agency). In 1999 he does a training course on scriptwriting for documentaries at INA. “Jerusalem au nom du pere et du fils” is his first documentary.
Marc Toulin is film director, head operator,and co- founder of the Production Company Mil Sabords, and he has already filmed a number of documentaries as an author, of which, “Roue libre sur l’Afrique” (2003), “Abadrakari” (2000) and “La source” (1998).He also filmed reportage for the French Magazine T.V “Thalassa” (France3) and “Zone Interdite” (M6)
Les pieds noirs, histoires d’une blessure (Les années
romantiques)
Film Director Gilles Perez-2006-80 minutes
Production: Treize au Sud-France
Through affirmations and family archives, this documentary film tells the history of the Pieds-Noirs, whose story, is above all, that of French Algeria: its about conquest of a colony founded on a foreign land, composed of Spanish Republicans, Italians escaping from the Italian Fascism, Maltese who fled from poverty, and of Parisian workers. The majority of descendents of these people ,are those, that will be forced to leave during the war of 1962.The important colonies instead escaped before. Once having returned to France, the Pied Noirs, considered fascists, and only interested in profit, did not receive a good greeting ,because of having refused to give independence back to the Algerians. The misunderstanding got worse, and the extreme right wing took over the situation. In the thousands of families, after 44 years, the elderly felt the need to tell about their “different” past: each personal story becomes an explanation for a collective one, rich of different “blood lines” and of the complexity of this cultural “melting pot “
Gilles Perez .is film director and author. Between 2003 and 2005 he filmed a documentary on the Nationalism in Corsica. In 2003 “En quete d’Ingrid”, a portrait on Ingrid Betancourt, broadcasted on Canal+, it received the SCAM prize (societe civile des auteurs multimedia).He also did : “Drogues, paroles de toxicomanes”; a series of 5 short films filmed for the European Commission; “L’Europe frappe au coeur”, four short films on the anti-terrorism in Europe; “Paroles de victims”, twenty short films on the victims in Europe; “Nes avec preservative”,a pedagogical film on AIDS prevention destined to the young and “Sida: Paroles de Jeunes” that tells about the life of five youngsters between the ages of 17 and 25, of which three have aids.
The Forgotten
Film Director: Driss Deiback-2006-80 minutes
Production: Sur Films Germany/Spain/Morocco
The film is based on the history of the 30’s in Spain up to nowadays. For many centuries different cultures have mixed and gotten into violent conflicts. Today Spain is the South-Western frontier of the European Union: separating Europe from Africa, and from the Muslim world. It is of a strategic position in international development. The Spanish Civil War has been described in different aspects: the international brigades, the involvement of the German Nazis, the support of Mussolini, the civil war as an introduction to the second world war, and the 72 countries that took part in the hostilities.But the role of the Muslim soldiers taking part in this European conflict has never been a subject in a documentary film before, and 70 years later the time has come for the survivors to speak, even if very few are left. Involuntarily they have determined to contribute to the destiny of Spain and Europe, in a war, in which they were part of the winners, but then forgotten by everyone.
Driss Deiback was born in Melilla. He attended the Film Conservatory in Paris. In 1998 his first story was published “Les memoires de Don Alberto”, he then goes to Los Angeles where he writes a number of film scripts and shoots two short films in 35 mm: “Sandy” and “Aberration”. In 1996 he films his first feature film “The refuge” in New York, a thriller that takes place between Melilla and New York, the film was chosen by Kodak to be screened at the Film Festival of Berlin in the section dedicated to the independent American cinema.In 2002 is author and producer of the documentary “Natural de Mellilla”,filmed in his home town: a portrait on races that intermingle, Christians, Jews, and Muslims of Melilla, which express themselves harshly on religion, politics, and homosexuality. In 2005 he films a documentary for the German Television network NDR on Melilla, describing it as the last “entrance door” into Europe for the Subsaharian immigrants.
Wasted
Film Director: Nurit Kedar-2007-70 minutes
Production: Beaufort Limited Partnership-Israele
At the foot of a small bay of an old fort belonging to the crusaders, the guardhouse of Beaufort has been set up.Many young people have died there in the last 1300 years: Saracens and crusaders, more recently, israelians and lebonese. Beaufort occupies a very special place in the spirit of the Israelian generations: it is the site of one of the most controversial battles of the Israeli Army for the possession of the South of Lebanon.
May 2000: On the hill, life and death face each other, through the presence of these young soldiers: “Wasted” is the story of them.
Nurit Kedar is film director and producer of documentaries at the CNN, and for the second Israelian television network in Jerusalem. She is known as a documentary director in Israele, and all her films have been broadcasted on the second television network of the country, some have had an international audience thanks to the broadcasting on Arte, Canal Plus (France), NHK (Japan), ARD (Germany), Multicanal (Spain), and Rai (Italy)
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SELECTION FOR THE FINAL STAGE OF
THE INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 2007:
- Grand Prize CMCA Mediterranean Challenges
- Memories of the Mediterranean
- Art, Heritage, and Cultures of the Mediterranean
- First Creation
- The Golden Lighthouse for Tv Magazine
SELECTION FOR THE FINAL STAGE OF
THE NATIONAL COMPETITION 2007
- Special Prize
Mediterranean Wakes. Region of Sardegna
