Friday, November 22, 2019

International Film Festival of Schools in Tetouan



By Nada LMISRI

The Faculty of Humanities and Letters of Tetouan (Abdelmalek Essaadi University) and the Association Bidayyat ARTCINE (composed of academics, film professionals, laureates of the Master Specialized in Documentary Cinema and PhD students in Arts and Film Studies, Audiovisual and Scenic) organize with the support of  CCM (the Moroccan Cinematographic Center ) the fifth edition of the International Film Festival  of Schools in Tetouan (FIDEC). And this from Monday 25 to Saturday, November 30, 2019.
The International Film Festival  of Schools in Tetouan aims to promote the works of young creators from around the world whether they come from film schools, universities or training institutes for the professions of the image and also of serve as a platform for meetings, exchanges with young people from around the world and belonging to different cultures.

According to its press release, of the 3200 films submitted, 75 films were selected by the selection committee in international competition. An exceptional vintage, an impressive number of schools and countries participating in this edition, many for the first time. The figures express and attest to this exceptional selection: 75 films selected, 33 countries represented and 63 film schools.

39 fiction films, 21 documentaries and 15 animated films make up this beautiful selection of school films. Many selected films carry human and universal values ​​such as tolerance, respect, solidarity, justice, fraternity and love. A wide variety of topics is covered in various thematic fields: identity, migration, youth, adolescent crises, childhood, loneliness, cinema, old age, adversity, etc. Themes often rooted in local and national realities certainly but challenge the universal in us. These films ultimately reveal the human in all its states.

New cinematographs and new talents to discover at this year's edition at FIDEC from November 25th to 30th at the historic theater '' Teatro Espagnol '' in Tetouan.

GRECA (Group of Research and Cinematographic and Audiovisual Studies), affiliated to the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of Tetouan and whose creation dates from 1987, is a pioneer in the field of cinema research in Morocco. Thanks to the praiseworthy efforts of Professor Hamid Aïdouni, Festival Director and President of the Bidayyat Association, who deserves credit for integrating research, training and film creation into the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. of Tetouan after many years of experience, with few means but a lot of will, ambition and dedication. He has created for several years a Professional Bachelor in Cinematographic Studies, a Specialized Master in Documentary Cinema and Doctoral Training in Arts and Cinematographic Studies, Audiovisual and Scenic.
FIDEC asserts itself as a reference in the Arab and African world and is now positioned thanks to the rigor of its selection and the quality of its organization, in just five years of existence, as an unmissable event on the scale international


official Selection  FIDEC 2019
9/8 DOGMAK | Halidİlhan | Documentaire | YaşarUniversity | Turquie | 18’ | 2018
ADJOURNMENT | Nina Marissiaux | Documentaire | HELB | Belgique | 24’ | 2018
AIRSHIP OF UNKNOWN DIRECTION | Alexandra Galitskova | Animation | VGIK Moscou | Russie | 5’| 2019
AISHA | Piotr Łukasiak | Fiction | Warsaw Film School | Pologne | 16’ | 2019
AMAL | Raoul "Kabrit" Mallat | Animation | Ecole Emile Cohl | France | 6’ | 2019
ASIYA | DinaraAbdrashitova| Fiction | Academy N.S Mikhalkov | Russie | 15’ | 2018
BIOTOPE | Paul Scholten | Documentaire | HFF Munich | Allemagne | 10’ | 2018
BLACK LEAD | A. Valter, R. Delmond, F. Lambert, L. Talfer, N. Six, T. Emsellem |Animation| SupinfocomRubika | France |6’ | 2019
BREATHE ! | Matthias Kreter, Max Breuer | Fiction | FABW | Allemagne | 9’ | 2018
BRUISED | Rok won Hwang, Samantha Tu| Animation | RinglingCollege of Art and Design | Etats-Unis| 3’ | 2018
CASTING | Klaudia Keska | Documentaire | WRITV | Pologne | 18’| 2018
CIRQUE | Bob Colaers | Fiction | LUCA | Belgique | 16’ | 2019
CLEATS | Abdullah Şahin | Fiction | Istanbul ŞehirUniversity | Turquie | 10’ | 2019
COMMENTS | Jannis Alexander Kiefer| Documentaire| Film UniversityBabelsberg KONRAD WOLF | Allemagne |5’| 2018
CROSS | Konstantinos Stathis | Expérimental | AUTH | Grèce | 23’ | 2019
DANSE MACABRE | ZsófiaCsánki | Animation| METU | Hongrie | 6’ | 2018
EPILOGUE | YosraSanhaji | Fiction | ISAMM | Tunisie | 14’ | 2019
EQUALLY RED AND BLUE | Georgiana Moldoveanu | Fiction | UNATC | Roumanie | 21’ | 2018
FANNY | Alia Benhida | Fiction | ECIB | Espagne | 8’ | 2019
FAR FAINT LIGHTS | Paolo AguilarBoschetti| Documentaire | ECAM | Espagne | 21’ | 2018
FISH FOR LIFE | Kerstin Blätterbinder, Lisa Gierlinger, Lukas Mathä, Victoria Wolfersberger | Animation | FHOO| Autriche | 8’ | 2019
FROZEN TO DEATH, SOAKED TO THE SKIN | Elena Tara| Fiction | ECAM | Espagne | 15’ | 2018
GLAZE | Clara Jost | Expérimental | ESTC| Portugal | 14’ | 2018
GULF | Walter Mzengi | Expérimental | AFDA| Tanzanie | 10’ | 2019
HER NAME WAS | Helena Dalemans | Fiction| LUCA| Belgique | 18’ | 2018
HERO | Ondřej Burda| Fiction | FAMO| République tchèque | 15’ | 2019
HIM AND I | Ibrahim Handal | Fiction | Dar al-KalimaUniversity | Palestine | 14’ | 2018
INANIMATE | Lucia Bulgheroni | Animation | NFTS | Royaume-Uni | 9’ | 2018
JOURS DE FÊTE | Hamza Oujamma| ESAV Marrakech | Fiction | Maroc | 8’ | 2018
LOOKING FOR DENI | Déni Pitsaev| Documentaire | LUCA | Belgique | 19’ | 2018
MANO A MANO | Louise Courvoisier| Fiction | La Cinéfabrique | France | 22’ | 2018
MTV IS MY FRIEND | Radu Popovici | Animation | UVT ARTE | Roumanie | 6’ | 2018
MUSIC BOX | VeronikaPasternaSzemlova| Animation | TMK | République tchèque | 13’ | 2018
NEITHER SUNNY NOR CLOUDY | AnvarNijemčević | Documentaire | SFA | Bosnie-Herzégovine | 11’ | 2019
NEWS FROM BORUSSIA | Kasia Hertz| Expérimental | DFFB | Allemagne | 16’ | 2019
NOT FOR REAL | Mona Maire| Documentaire | MMCD Marseille | France | 30’ | 2019
NOTICE ME | Catherine Shelley| Documentaire | BFI | Royaume-Uni | 6’ | 2019
PATCHWORK | Maria ManeroMuro| Animation | UPV | Espagne | 8’ | 2018
PLAY | Piotr Sulkowski| Fiction | Lodz | Pologne | 13’ | 2018
PPOM PPAM | Hee-kyoung Shin, Seo-hyunYeon| Animation | Korea Animation High School | Corée | 8’ | 2019
REFLECTION | Chelsea Keene| Animation | CSULB | Etats-Unis | 4’ | 2019
REMEMBER ME | Mohamed Rida Gueznai | Documentaire | MSCD Tétouan| Maroc | 20’ | 2019
RITA | Loubna Briac | Documentaire | MSCD Tétouan| Maroc | 26’ | 2019
RUN | Egor Isaev| Fiction | Moscow Film School | Russie | 23’ | 2019
SHE WHO WASN'T TAMED | Saleh Kashefi| Fiction | IYCS | Iran | 15’ | 2019
STARVATION | Zahra Rostampour | Animation | TehranUniversity of Art| Iran | 7’ | 2018
STRINGS | Paula Zambrano | Fiction | ULA Mérida | Venezuela | 12’ | 2018
TEA | ShokirKholikov| Fiction | UzSIAC | Ouzbékistan | 15’ | 2018
THARBAT’N’WADOO | LatefaAhrrare | Documentaire | MSCD Tétouan| Maroc | 24’ | 2018
THE BINOCULARS | Rahul Sharma | Fiction | LFS | Royaume-Uni | 16’ | 2019
THE BUZZ | DánielFüzes | Fiction | METU | Hongrie | 34’ | 2019THE CARP POND | Guomin Yang | Fiction |The Central Academy Of Drama| Chine | 26’ | 2019
THE CULTURE | Ernst De Geer | Fiction | DNF| Norvège | 25’ | 2018
THE FISHING CIRCLE | Daniela López Moreno, Alfredo MarimonCarcamo| Documentaire | VGIK | Colombie | 20’ | 2019
THE GIRLS WHO WEREN'T AFRAID | Frida MezaCoriche| CUEC |Documentaire | Mexico | 8’ | 2018
THE LAST TROPHY | MARIO TURKHY FUNES | Documentaire | UNAL | Argentine | 22’ | 2019
THE MOTIONS | Frank Donnangelo | Fiction | AFI Conservatory | Etats-Unis | 15’ | 2018
THE SCHOOL BUS | RamazanKılıç | Fiction | Istanbul ŞehirUniversity | Turquie 13’ | 2019
THE SHEPHERD | BrwaVahabpour | Fiction | DNF | Norvège | 17’ | 2018
THE TRIP | Daniel Rihák | Fiction | FTF VŠMU | Slovaquie | 18’ | 2018
THE VOICES FROM INSIDE | Elina CHARED | Documentaire | MMCD Marseille | France | 25’ | 2019
THE VOID BETWEEN THINGS | Andreas Pappas| Fiction | HCTSS | Grèce | 21’ | 2019
THE WHITE PARALLELEPIPED | OksanaStepantsova| Fiction | GITR | Russie | 16’ | 2019
THINGS WE DON’T TALK ABOUT| Dan Johan Filip Svensson| Fiction | DNF| Norvège | 18’ | 2018
TO EACH YOUR SARAH | Deokgeun Kim| Fiction | K-ARTS | Corée | 25’ | 2019
UBIZO | Natalia Bombala | Fiction | UKZN | Afrique du Sud | 16’ | 2018
UNTIL THE EMERGENCE OF DAWN | Younes Benchakor | Fiction | MSCD Tétouan | Maroc | 16’ | 2018
VOLE | Cynthia Tannous| Fiction | UA | Liban | 8’ | 2018
WEEPING WILLOW | Krystel El Koussa | Fiction | USEK | Liban | 16’ | 2018
WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO DARWIN | L. ALTIERI, S. CRIPPA, G. MANNA, M. NOCERINO| Animation | CSC | Italie | 6’ | 2019
WHITE COFFEE | Gloria Tauk | Fiction | UL | Liban | 13’ | 2018
WIRED | ZeyuRen| Animation | RISD| Etats-Unis | 4’ | 2019
ZOUJ BGHAL | HoudaRahmani | Documentaire | MSCD Tétouan| Maroc | 13’ | 2018