Marseille International Film Festival (in French the Festival international de cinéma de Marseille or FIDMarseille) is a

documentary film festival Documentary film festivals are film festivals devoted solely to documentary film, which is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to "document" reality. Although "documentary film" originall ...

held yearly since 1989 in

Marseille Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Franc ...

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...

. The festival awards grand prizes in international and national categories. The 2009 competition featured 20 documentaries in the international category and 14 in the French category. Past winners of the grand prize of the international competition include

Chantal Akerman Chantal Anne Akerman (; 6 June 19505 October 2015) was a Belgian film director, screenwriter, artist, and Film studies, film professor at the City College of New York. She is best known for films such as ''Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 108 ...

's '' Là-bas'' (co-winner 2006),

Eduardo Coutinho Eduardo de Oliveira Coutinho (May 11, 1933 – February 2, 2014) was a Brazilian film director, screen writer, actor and film producer, known as one of the most important documentarists in Brazil. He directed and wrote the script to the 1967 po ...

's ''

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'' (co-winner 2006),

Simone Bitton Simone Bitton (born 1955) is a French-Moroccan Documentary film, documentary filmmaker. Her films have been nominated for or won the César Award, the Marseille Festival of Documentary Film, Marseille Festival of Documentary Film Award, and the S ...

's ''Wall'' (2004) '' Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks'' (2003), ''

In Public A public space is a place that is open and accessible to the general public. Roads (including the pavement), public squares, parks, and beaches are typically considered public space. To a limited extent, government buildings which are open to ...

'' (2002),

Patricio Guzmán Patricio Guzmán Lozanes (born August 11, 1941) is a Chilean documentary film director. He is most known for his films ''The Battle of Chile'' (1975-1979) and ''Salvador Allende'' (2004). Career Guzmán also teaches documentary film classes in ...

's '' Le Cas Pinochet'' (2001). Marseille International Film Festival is part of the

Doc Alliance The Doc Alliance is a creative partnership of seven European documentary film festivals, including: CPH:DOX in Copenhagen; Doclisboa; Docs Against Gravity FF; DOK Leipzig; Marseille Festival of Documentary Film; Jihlava International Documentar ...

—a creative partnership between 7 key European documentary film festivals.

References

External links

Official site
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