Congratulations to our filmmakers who successfully pitched their projects at MEDIMED, and had the opportunity to meet industry representatives from all over the world! Industry representatives included 2M TV, ARTE, ARTE GEIE, Al Jazeera Documentary, Al-Arabiya Channel, BBC Arabic, France TV and many more.

40 YEARS OF SILENCE was presented in the Society & Human interest Category by Zainab Al-Hariri and Maythem Ridha (Close Up’s cohort 2019-2020).

ENTANGLED HOPEFUL BIRD, announced earlier this week, was presented in the Current Affairs, Human Rights & History section by Dawood Hilmandi and Ezatullah Alidost (Close Up’s cohort 2021-2022).

LET’S PLAY SOLDIERS was also presented in the Current Affairs, Human Rights & History section by Mariam Al Dhubhani and Mohammed Al-Jaberi (Close up’s cohort 2021-2022).

We also want to congratulate the MEDIMED team for a wonderful 2022 edition!