The Arab and Mediterranean Film Festival of Catalonia reaches its 14th edition to keep filling a void in the Catalan cultural scene by giving voice to Arab and Mediterranean cinema. The Festival was created with the understanding that cinema, among other things, can help us to better comprehend the world we live in and also encourage us to develop our critical thinking.

The topic chosen for the 2020 edition envisages a gender perspective:

FORMS OF RESISTENCE - Collective, private and everyday forms of resistance

Participate with films that feature resistance to Power in all its forms; that portray forms of resistance that may be collective or individual. Those forms of resistance that aim to make us better people, to bring harmony to our daily relationships or to make us freer. In short, all those live experiences that through tenacity and perseverance face up to the forces that suck our blood, poison the earth or want us to shut up and submit, both in the public sphere and in the privacy of close contact.

Participation Requirements

1. Section “In Perspective”

60 minutes or more movies or documentary movies  filmed by directors from Arab countries in the last 10 years.

2. Section “Today looks”:

60 minutes or more movies or documentary movies filmed by directors from Arab countries in the last 3 years.

3. Please send a download link or DVD copy before 1st June, 2020. The film must be subtitled in French, English or Spanish.   

4. The Film Festival will only contact the persons in charge of the selected films. The copies received will not be returned.

Selected Films

5. In case a movie is selected, we ask you to please send us the following items before the 15th July, 2020:

- Synopsis

- Biography and filmography of the director

- Photography of the director and of the film in JPG 300dpi format

- Film Poster in JPG 300dpi format

- Trailer

- List of the dialogues in timecode (in English, French or Spanish)

Movies’ Subtitles

6. The movies will be projected in V.O (original version), subtitled in Catalan or Spanish. The Festival will be providing subtitling for the selected movies.

Transportation 

7. The Festival will only be responsible for costs related to the transport of the selected movies for their scheduled screening and back to the distributor once the Festival is over following a previously agreed upon protocol.

Promotion and circulation of the selected films

8. The owners of the film’s rights authorize the Film Festival to use images (max. 3 minutes) of their film for the promotion and advertisement of the Festival during our communication campaign.

Screenings

9. A maximum of 2 screenings will be scheduled for each selected film.

Registration form