The “Mediterranean Film Festival” in the south of France starts this month, and Gaza is present in many films.
Gaza will be present at the 49th session of the Mediterranean Film Festival (Cinemed), which will be held in the city of Montpellier in the south of France from October 18 to 26.
Among the films that will be screened at the festival are “Journey to Gaza” by Italian Piero Osperti, “Vibrations from Gaza” by Palestinian Rehab Nazzal, and “The Coffin of Drunken Love” by directors Khalil Jreige and Joanna Haji Touma .
200 films will participate in the session, and its program will include retrospective screenings of the work of the Italian director Luigi Comincini.
The late honoree, director Francesca Comincini, will be present to accompany the screening of her film “Prima la Vita” at the opening of the festival on October 18.
In this film, she remembers growing up under the care of the director of “Pane, Amore e Fantasia,” “Pinocchio” and others, whom she influenced but tried to be freed from.
The festival will feature 24 of the 30 films by what is often called the “childhood film director,” who died in 2007 at the age of 90.
Between opening and closing, 17 feature films will be held, including “Louise Violet” by Eric Pienaar, “La Pie voleuse” by Robert Guedegian, and “Le Dernier Souffle.” by Donny Podalidis and Kad Murad, directed by Costa Gavras.
Actor Reda Kateb, who won the César award for best supporting role for the 2015 film “Hippocrate”, will accompany his first film as a director, “Sur un fil”, which follows the first steps of a street circus performer as part of her clown attachment in a hospital.
The festival will end on October 26 with the preview of the French film “Le Mohican” by the director Frédéric Varucci, which tells, in the style of “Corsican Western”, the struggle of a shepherd with the desires of real estate.
