Mediterranean Awards
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In 1996, the Fondazione Mediterraneo instituted the Mediterranean Awards (with various categories) that are granted every year to eminent personalities from the worlds of arts and culture, politics and science and social disciplines, whose actions have contributed to reducing tensions, breaking down cultural barriers and developing shared values in the Greater Mediterranean.
This Award is considered one of the most prestigious acknowledgements in the world. Various events are associated with the Mediterranean Award, such as the “Euro-Mediterranean Concert for Dialogue Among Cultures” and the “Epiphany Concert” (organized by the Cultural Centre “Oltre il Chiostro” in collaboration with the Fondazione Mediterraneo. The latter event is broadcast by RaiUno and Rai International throughout the world every year on the morning of January 6th).
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16 June 2005
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) -
Category: Mediterranean Awards
The film "L´Enfant endormì", a Belgian -Moroccan co-production, directed by the Moroccan director Yasmine Kassari, is the winner of the section "Europa, Mediterraneo" of the 7th edition of Napolifilmfestival.
The Mediterranean Award Cinema 2005 also went to the film by Kassari. The jury, composed by the Belgian director Frederic Fonteyne, the director and critic from Spain Javier Rioyo, Italian director Antonietta De Lillo, American critic Nick Vivarelli and the Swedish screenwriter Peter Birro, has assigned the Vesuvio Award to the cinematographic work of Yasmine Kassari by selecting it among the ten films that participated in the special section dedicated to production of the Euro Mediterranean area.
The film, produced in 2004 and already presented in the section Orizzonti at the 61st Venice Film Festival, is set in a desert like region in Morocco.
It narrates the story of Zeinab, a young pregnant woman who catches her husband sneaking away the day after their wedding. Hoping to see him soon again, the women exerts an antic ritual of the rural communities in Morocco: put to sleep the foetus in order to postpone its birth.
The long waiting period will be a pretext for following the mission of alone standing women, dedicated to long and tiring days in the fields to get food for the family. Anyhow, we can see that women, free from the strong grip of a masculine figure, allow themselves to evaluate and decide upon their own lives. Even though in a context where they are still represented as trapped in longstanding traditions, a important process of cultural demystification has begun.
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25 January 2007
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) -
Category: Mediterranean Awards
Alpe Adria Cinema renews its annual meeting with Central and Eastern European cinema in occasion of the 18th edition of the Trieste Film Festival, Trieste, 18 – 25 January 2007 (Cinema Excelsior, Sala Azzurra, Cinema Ariston and Teatro Miela), directed as usual by Annamaria Percavassi.
The Festival is nowadays the most rich and articulated Italian film festival devoted to the cinema from Central and Eastern Europe and beyond.
Also for this 18th Edition the Fondazione Mediterraneo has collaborated with Alpe Adria Cinema – Triestefilmfestival conferring the International Award Laboratorio Mediterraneo 2003 to the best short film. The jury, composed by Maurizio Di Rienzo, Ivan Karl e Thomas Woschitz, assigned the Prize (€2.000) to:
"LAMPA CU CĂCIULĂ (The Tube With a Hat) by Radu Jude, Rumania, 2006.
Special mentions went to:
TIR by Radoy Nikolov, Bulgaria, 2005 and 10 INSECTS TO FEED (10 INSETTI DA NUTRIRE) by MASBEDO (Nicolò Massazza, Jacopo Bedogni), Italy, 2006.
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27 January 2005
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Category: Mediterranean Awards
Alpe Adria Cinema is once again renewing its annual appointment with the Cinema of Central and Eastern Europe: the 16th Edition of the Trieste Film Festival, planned from 20th to 27th January 2005 (at the cinema Excelsior of Trieste and the Teatro Miela), in eight days of programme explores the films of a vast geographic area stretching from Central Europe to the Asian republics.
Also for this 16th Edition the Mediterranean Laboratory Foundation has collaborated with Alpe Adria Cinema – Triestefilmfestival conferring the International Award Laboratorio Mediterraneo 2005to the best short film "Dver" by Russian director Viktor Asliuk.
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22 January 2004
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Category: Mediterranean Awards
Also for this 15th Edition of Trieste Film Festival the Fondazione Mediterraneo has collaborated with Alpe Adria Cinema conferring the International Award Laboratorio Mediterraneo 2004 to the best short film "Am See" by German director Viktor Asliuk.
In addition to the official section of the film in contest and the "images" section, this edition proposed also a retorospective of the director Jan Nĕmec from Prague.
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24 January 2001
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) -
Category: Mediterranean Awards
This edition is focused on a theme which had quite often been dealt with in the previous year: the Jewish issue.
The Mediterranean Laboratory Foundation, with the Mediterranean Academy – Maison de la Méditerranée, intends to stress again, in this 12th edition, the urgent need for “re-anchoring” Europe to the Mediterranean, above all by developing the dialogue between Cultures and Societies; and it is with this spirit that the International Award Laboratorio Mediterraneo 2001 is awarded to the best short film "Pad / La caduta" by Czech director Aurel Klimt.
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22 January 2000
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) -
Category: Mediterranean Awards
Observatory, between past and present, of European changes, Alpe Adria Cinema proposes again this year a programme full of suggestions which, all together, allow to detect different pathways and original signals, to emphasize trends and author’s routes in the cinematographic production of the European Middle-Eastern area, which has always been, since the beginning, the object of this event.
Included, according to the theme dealt with, into the different sections of the Festival, all the films produced or come out in 1998/99 and presented during this 11th Edition competed for Premio Trieste; the same criterion was applied to the short and medium fiction films that competed for the International Award Laboratorio Mediterraneo.
The Prize was awarded to Lendulet/Momento (Hungary, 2000), directed by Imre Juhàsz, because among the different heterogeneous competing works, the film stood out for the quality of sound, photography and the narrative technique chosen.
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24 January 1999
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) -
Category: Mediterranean Awards
The International Award Laboratorio Mediterraneo 1999, under the patronage of Accademia del Mediterraneo-Maison de la Méditerranée, is awarded this year to the best short film – Un accento perfetto by Nicola Sornaga.
The Award is consolidated and takes a high meaning with regard to an area which, from place of clashes and tragedies, becomes more and more a place of encounter and dialogue in view of enhancing and transforming every identity into an indispensable resource for a new Europe of the Mediterranean.
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25 January 1998
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) -
Category: Mediterranean Awards
The Mediterranean Laboratory Foundation awarded the Prize “Laboratorio Mediterraneo” for the best long film, ex-aequo, to two independent productions: Ekopres-Ekspres by the Slovenian director Igor Sterk and Mondo Bobo by the Croatian director Goran Rusinovic and, for the best short film, to Moja Domovma by Milos Radovic (Fed. Republic of Yugoslavia).