Festival devoted to cinema of the Mediterranean basin unfolded in French city of Montpellier Oct 21-29.
Spanish director Jo Sol’s Living And Other Fictions has won the top prize at the CineMed film festival, devoted to cinema hailing from the Mediterranean basin.
The drama revolves around the friendship between fragile former psychiatric patient Pepe and disabled activist Antonio, who tries to help the former build a life outside the walls of an institution.
The jury - led by actress Laetitia Casta – described the film as a “human experience” which broke taboos and praised it for the way in which it built the two central characters on the big screen “without judgement or morals” coming into play.
French director Fabrice Benchaouche’s feel-good picture Timgad -about the efforts of a junior soccer team from a small Algerian village to get to a major tournament in France - won the Audience Award.
The Best Documentary...
Spanish director Jo Sol’s Living And Other Fictions has won the top prize at the CineMed film festival, devoted to cinema hailing from the Mediterranean basin.
The drama revolves around the friendship between fragile former psychiatric patient Pepe and disabled activist Antonio, who tries to help the former build a life outside the walls of an institution.
The jury - led by actress Laetitia Casta – described the film as a “human experience” which broke taboos and praised it for the way in which it built the two central characters on the big screen “without judgement or morals” coming into play.
French director Fabrice Benchaouche’s feel-good picture Timgad -about the efforts of a junior soccer team from a small Algerian village to get to a major tournament in France - won the Audience Award.
The Best Documentary...
- 11/2/2016
- ScreenDaily
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