FESTIVAL DES RECITS DE LA MER ()

영화제 시작: 17 3월 2022      영화제 끝: 20 3월 2022

STORIES OF THE SEA FESTIVAL

El Haouaria is a fishing village in Cap Bon which is located at the heart of Mediterranean issues: environmental, economic, political. These issues explain the subtitle chosen to specify the vocation of these multidisciplinary meetings: CINEMA AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. The cinema is the main axis of the program and it is around films that debates, workshops and conferences are organized to which experts, academics, scientists, self-taught people, men and women in the field are invited. , artists, athletes, students to compare different perspectives on the chosen themes. This gives the festival a studious and festive dimension that is both academic and civic, giving the debate the importance it deserves to strengthen social ties and popularize notions to which the local public is not insensitive. The program is inspired by concerns and current events in the region to fuel reflection in a participatory and friendly framework while creating an activity for young people to question them and get them to think and act in the service of the community.

The themes that will be addressed this year are:

- Illegal immigration

- Piracy, between memory and mythology

Exhibitions, concerts and poetic evenings are planned to enrich these themes which directly refer to the memory of a region suffering the effects of globalization. As such, THE FESTIVAL DES RECITS DE LA MER plays a restorative, unifying and conciliating role. It aims to become the rallying point in the Mediterranean for all those who defend the specificities of the natural and cultural environment by advocating a form of ecological and responsible tourism.

This festival is implemented thanks to the partnership of several regional cultural associations, which demonstrates the good health of Tunisian civil society and its exemplary capacity to unite around common causes and for the sustainability of a young event full of promises.

Honorary Award of:

- best filming direction of fiction

- best documentary

- best animation

_ Best feature Film

Rules of FRM

Article 1
The International Film Festival FRM is an exhibition space for academic events and professional films around the subject of sea stories, it’s an event honoring sea films by cinematographic projects around the theme of the SEA.

FRM International Film Festival is an opportunity to meet filmmakers and producers from different nationalities. Also it aims to promote in Art and cultural tourism to build a way for the future cooperative films.

Article 2
FRM is open to fiction, documentary, experimental and animation short and feature films and video clips.

It consists of several sections:

- A competitive event for selected films

- Out of competition films. It is an opportunity for the preselected films but not selected to be shown at the Panorama section if a representant of the film Attend the festival and pay his accommodation (a limited number of films will take place at the festival as a panorama before the contact of the programmer and its confirmation)
- Practical workshops for participant at the festival.

- A competition of short and feature films make during the festival.

Article 3
Any film must Respect the humanity the human dignity and the general rules of the Hashemite Tunisia.

Every film around the theme of sea stories - be Silent or Spoken- spoken or subtitled in one of the following languages: English or French or Arabic.

Article 4
Short films have a duration not exceeding 20 minutes (including the generic).and for Feature films the duration up to 60 minutes.

Article 5
By the Submission to the festival the submitter accepts all rules of the festival.

Article 6

Every film selected Have a certificate of official selection.

Honorary Award of:

- best filming direction of fiction

- best documentary

- best animation

The jury awards the following honoring prizes:
A prize for the best animation short Film
A prize for the best Documentary short Film
A prize for the best fiction Film short
A prize for the best feature Film

Article 7
Every preselected film will be downloaded with a special code refers to its full information to be presented for juries without any personal details. The films presented will be chosen according to the criteria established by the organizing committee of The FRM festival.

Article 8
There is no screening fee paid by the festival for the owner of the pre-selected or selected film.

Article 9
The organizing committee is the only one authorized to deal with the parties concerned in case of a dispute and declines all responsibility in case of cancellation of this event.
Participation in the festival implies the unreserved acceptance of these rules.

Article 10
Every film preselected needs to sign the Authorization for the screening of the Film.