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Given the conditions experienced by the whole world because of the Covid-19 pandemic, and with the objective of adapting to this new situation of health crisis, the 26th edition of the Mediterranean Film Festival of Tetouan, which should have been held take place from March 21 to 28, 2020, will be held in digital format. And this from June 4 to 10, 2021.
According to the FCMT press release, the organizers have decided, in consultation with their partners, to organize a 26th reduced edition in digital format. In this sense, direct access to the films scheduled for the 2021 edition will be offered to the public. These films will be available on the Festival Scope platform. The FCMT therefore invites its public to visit its website (renewed and updated) where it will find all the information relating to the cultural program and film screenings (www.festivaltetouan.org).
The FCMT offers its public, passionate about the seventh art, competitions (feature films and documentaries), a conference under the theme “Cinema and painting, border or porosity? », The Carte Blanche and Coup de cœur program. The organizers are also planning to organize a meeting under the theme "How could festivals participate in the return of cinema?" and a master class which will be led by Moroccan director Mohamed ChrifTribak.
The names of the three juries, which will render the last verdict to award the prizes to the winners of the festival at the closing, are specialists and professionals of international renown, recognized for their great contribution and important contribution to Mediterranean cinema.
The jury for the feature films competition will be composed of Jacques Trabi, Laval Lozano, Mohamed Laroussi and Mogamed El Baz. The jury for the documentary films competition will be chaired by Marion Stalens who will be accompanied by Fanny Aubert Malaurie, IritNeidhardt, Hamid Benamra and Fathi Kharat, while the critical jury will include NasriHajjaj, Adil Semmar, Amal Al Ajmal and Laila Charadi.
The FCMT is an annual film event with the objective of revealing and promoting Mediterranean cinematographies in a spirit of exchange, sharing and conviviality. It was founded by the Association Amis de Cinéma de Tétouan (ACT) in 1987. Its first editions were organized in the form of film meetings in Tetouan. And each year, this cinematographic event, which is a remarkable success and a significant craze on the part of moviegoers and which has become the most popular cultural and artistic heritage in Tetouan, presents its Moroccan audience and its guests with a rich and varied program. : official competitions, special sessions, tributes, master class, international conference, retrospective, guest from the Mediterranean, training courses for teachers, '' children / young people '' screenings, '' At the festival school '' program, program '' Plateau '' (script writing), round tables, etc.
Despite the health crisis, the organizers of the FCMT intend to further develop the educational function of the festival, to assert it more and to scaffold projects (screenings, debates, round tables, workshops ...) inciting their audience, mainly young people, to s '' ask about the new problems and phenomena (social, health) that impact and influence our daily lives. They want things to get back to normal soon so that they can organize the 27th edition under better conditions. "In the meantime, we continue to work to make the distance that separates us more accessible and rich in fruitful exchanges and productive sharing," they note.
