Tetouan Prepares to Welcome the Mediterranean Cinema
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The Tetouan Mediterranean Cinema Festival has announced the names of the members of the two committees responsible for evaluating the competing films in its 30th edition, scheduled from October 25 to November 1. The committees include prominent figures in cinema, criticism, and training, reflecting the festival’s commitment to excellence and the diversity of cinematic expressions and creative risks.
This edition celebrates, according to the organizers, three decades of perseverance and determination to make Mediterranean cinema shine, and to support emerging talents by providing spaces for interaction, training, and dialogue, allowing cinema lovers and professionals to discover a range of films that reflect the diversity of cinematic creativity in the region.
Ten feature films, both narrative and documentary, from various Mediterranean countries will compete this year for several awards, including the Grand Prize of the City of Tetouan, the Mohamed Rkabi Special Jury Prize, and the Azeddine Medour Best First Work Award, in addition to the awards for Best Female and Male Roles.
Italian director Leonardo Di Costanzo will chair the feature film jury, alongside Moroccan director and screenwriter Asmae Laaroussi, French actor and theater director Serge Barbieux, Portuguese producer and festival director Isabel Machado, and Egyptian director and screenwriter Amir Ramses.
The Mustafa Msanawi Criticism Committee will award a prize for a work that stands out for its aesthetic treatment and critical approach, comprised of Moroccan journalist and critic Fatima Afriki, French film critic Cédric Lépine, and Italian journalist and critic Francesco Pontigia.
Since its founding in 1985 by the Association of Friends of Cinema in Tetouan, the festival has worked to promote Mediterranean cinema, carrying demanding and innovative cinephilic values and has always provided a platform for exchanging experiences and artistic sensibilities in a city known for hosting various foundational and pioneering artistic movements and currents.
The festival was originally scheduled to celebrate its 30th edition last April but was postponed by the organizing body due to financial and logistical difficulties faced by the event.
