10th MEDITERRANEAN DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL

The Mediterranean Documentary Festival started in 1998. It is the first Documentary Festival that has taken place in Greece and that has been organized by a Greek institution. It is not a competition festival which allows it to integrate in its programme films produced a long time ago, films that marked cinema in their own way and now they are buried in the past.

This year, the 10th Mediterranean Documentary Festival will be hosted from October 6th to 9th at the Lavrion Technological Cultural Park.
The festival is organized by the Association of Greek Film Producers – Directors in collaboration with the East Attica Prefecture, the National Technical University of Athens and the Municipality of Lavrion and the Lavreotiki Research Company under the auspices of the Greek Ministry of Culture and is supported by the ERT, the Greek Film Centre, the Hellenic Audiovisual Institute, MEDIA DESK HELLAS and the Collecting and Administrating Society of the Rights of Cinematographic Producers “HERMIAS”, the Thessaloniki Cinema Museum, the Grecotel Cape Sounio Hotel and the Network of Wine Disttribution “ATTICA”.

The Programme includes the following sections: Work, Immigration, Political Documentary Film, People and Places and about 28 documentary films will be screened in the frame of the Festival from Italy, France, Spain, Cyprus, Turkey, Tunisia, Palestine, Israel, Egypt, Lebanon and of course Greece.

The film “Belle toujours” by the Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira produced in 2006, in homage of Luis Bunuel and Jean-Claude Carriere, the creators of the film “Belle de Jour” that was shot in 1967. Oliveira’s film will be the basis for the debate in one of the parallel events of the Festival. The film will be screened in the frame of the Festival’s new section «Film Critics selections». “Belle toujours” is the film that has been selected by Andreas Tyros, film critic and president of the Greek Film Critics Association who will also be the coordinator of the debate.

It’s worthy mentioning the other parallel events:

Finally, the Festival in collaboration with the Athens French Institute, organizes a small tribute to Raymond Depardon, with the screening of three documentary films.

Film director Vassilis Vafeas is the Art Director of the Festival.

This year, the Mediterranean Documentary Festival starts a collaboration with the Videopolis Festival of the Veneto district in Italy, thanks to the contribution of the Italian Institute of Culture in Athens.