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Use the Search button to get to the 5072 movies of the Cinemed database. History of the Festival The Mediterranean Film Festival was founded in 1979 by the enthusiasts running Ciné-club Jean-Vigo, a Montpellier film club that has been extremely active since the mid-1950s. Initially called 'Rencontres avec le cinéma méditerranéen', the event became the 'Festival International du Cinéma Méditerranéen de Montpellier' (Montpellier International Festival of Mediterranean Film) in 1989. It has included a competition section since then. Statutory objective: 'The Montpellier International Festival of Mediterranean Film has a cultural purpose consisting of knowledge of the cinema of the Mediterranean zone, the Black Sea, Portugal and Armenia. In a spirit of tolerance, it enhances discussion, seminars and studies on the common components that link these cinemas.' The 2012 festival in figures This year the enthusiasm of the public for the program translated into a significant increase in attendance with 82,000 admissions, 5% more than in 2011. The festival’s web site, cinemed.tm.fr, confirmed this interest with more than 16,000 visitors between October 25 and November 3. The traditional class for lycée students - with the participation of Bruno Podalydès! - included 468 high school students from all over France preparing to take the 2013 "cinéma-audiovisuel" end examination and some 1,700 people visited the 29 stands of the schools taking part in the 2nd annual Cinema and Audio-visual Trades Day held at the beginning of the festival. The 34th Cinemed also received 314 official guests, 216 professionals and 113 journalists. Besides the 217 films scheduled, the festival included 3 exhibitions and numerous roundtables with the guests. Thirteen prizes were awarded for full features, short features and documentaries, with a total value of € 60,000 in cash and services. The Development aid grant on November 1 and 2 selected 18 film projects and awarded 6 grants (with a total value of € 42,000 in cash and services). Other Activities > 'Classes L' courses The Montpellier Festival has held courses since 1992 for lycée pupils taking the Baccalauréat cinema-audiovisual option. Each year about 400 students participate in the courses organised by the Festival. The following courses have been held since 1992: Rossellini (1992), Tati (1993), Flaherty (1994), Buñuel (1995), Demy (1996), Fellini (1997), Mizoguchi (1998), Pialat (1999), short films and Varda (2000), Jean Vigo (2001), Kiarostami (2002) Chris Marker (2003), Anthony Mann (2004) Murnau (2005), Wong Kar-wai (2006), Alain Resnais (2007), Alfred Hitchcock (2008), The Man with the Movie Camera (2009), Souleymanne Cissé’s Yeelen (2010), Éric Rohmer’s Conte d’été (2011) and Ernst Lubitsch’ To Be or Not To Be (2012). > Cinema and Audiovisual Trades Day (Journée des métiers du cinéma et de l’audiovisuel) This event is intended for lycée pupils in the Languedoc-Roussillon and Provence-Côte d'Azur regions, cinema students and for the 500 lycée cinema and audiovisual pupils from 21 lycées all over France who are coming to the Cinemed Montpellier from 26 to 28 October for training. The aim is to make it easier for lycée pupils to make career choices and to facilitate the transition between choice of occupation and training and between training and the professional world for all young people who wish to work in cinema. See the 2012 event. > Children's Festival This is a selection of films forming an introduction to cinema provided by the Festival each year for nursery and primary schoolchildren in Montpellier and 'Montpellier Agglomération'. In all, 30 sessions and more than 12,000 seats are available for schoolchildren. They are available as part of school attendance time with transport provided by the city and the 'Agglomération'. Several sessions are also held in day centres and community centres and for associations. > 'L’Agglo fait son cinéma' At the initiative of the Agglomération de Montpellier in collaboration with the Festival of Mediterranean film, 'L’Agglo fait son cinéma' is a programme of summer showings of films in the open air in the communes of Montpellier Agglomération. As the organiser of the programme, the Festival provides films of undisputable artistic quality in places where the largest possible number of people can see them in a very special setting (outdoors and free of charge). > The Mediterranean at Ciné-club Jean-Vigo Within the framework of the seasons at the Ciné-club Jean-Vigo, The Montpellier Festival of Mediterranean Film organises each year a series of sessions devoted to cinema around the shores of the Mediterranean. Five films are being shown during the Ciné-club's 2012-2013 season. Information can be found at www.cineclubjeanvigo.fr The Mediterranean Documentary Season The festival is also showing Mediterranean documentary films in collaboration with the Médiathèque Federico-Fellini. This is again a way of continuing the work done during the months of selection of the films shown at the festival and to give the public an opportunity to see excellent films for which there was no room in the official selection. The 2012-2013 Mediterranean Documentary Season : - Thursday 13 Dec. 2012 - 6 p.m. Tinghir-Jérusalem : Echoes of the Mellah, by Kamal Hachkar (France/Morocco, 2011, 1 h 26 min) - Thursday 10 Jan. 2013 - 6 p.m. Aci Trezza, by Adrienne Lo Carmine and Thierry Lassimouillas (France, 2012, 1 h 01 min) - Thursday 14 Feb. 2013 - 6 p.m. Ask Your Shadow, by Lamine Ammar-Khodja (France, 2012, 1 h 22 min) - Thursday 14 Mar. 2013 - 6 p.m. Mograbi cinema, by Jacques Deschamps (France, 2012, 1 h 20 min) Festival office 78, avenue du Pirée, 34000 Montpellier - France Tel. : +33 4 99 13 73 73 - Fax : +33 4 99 13 73 74 info@cinemed.tm.fr • www.cinemed.tm.fr |
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