FIPRESCI & Our Favorites Programs 2022

FIPRESCI

The International Federation of Film Critics, FIPRESCI, founded in the twenties by a group of film journalists in Paris and Brussels and reappeared after the war in 1946 at the Cannes Film Festival with its first international jury, today has members in more than 60 countries around the world.
Because of the prestige linked to the name of our award, the number of FIPRESCI juries has steadily increased in recent decades, and we are now represented at more than 80 international film festivals each year around the world. More than a thousand films have been discovered and rewarded over the past few decades by our FIPRESCI juries at the most prestigious festivals such as Cannes, Berlin, Venice or Toronto to the more fragile local events fighting for their survival, but always with the same desire to promote and stimulate an original and personal cinema in all its forms and diversity, as considered a big part of culture and identity.
All of our award-winning films are an incredibly rich and exciting catalogue of world cinema, where masterpieces and films that are emblematic of the history of cinema rub shoulders with the first films of filmmakers that the general public may never have heard of, and where we can find names that are great on one continent but completely unknown in another, always reflecting our fundamental goal of supporting cinema as an art and medium of exceptional and independent expression.
In addition to our regular awards during the year, we also present special awards: a «Grand Prix – Best Film of the Year», chosen by our members; and the «Discovery Award», for which we cooperate with the European Film Academy. But we are also concerned about the future of our profession and reflect on the challenges faced by film critics in a world of radical technological change.
So our way of thinking and working as film critics is directly challenged by the rapid transformation of the media and our patterns of watching movies — crucial issues that we regularly address in conferences, panels and workshops. We are grateful to the Tetouan Mediterranean Film Festival and its president, Ahmed El Housni, for presenting a selection of outstanding films that received our award.

  1. 200 metres, Ameen Nayfeh, Palestine, 2020 [ INFO ]
  2. Brother’s keeper, Ferit Karahan, Turky/Romania, 2021 [ INFO ]
  3. Feathers, Omar Zohairy, Egypt, 2021 [ INFO ]
  4. Re granchio, Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis, Italy/France/Argentina, 2021 [ INFO ]

Coup de coeur

27 édition, 2022

  1. L’automne des pommiers, Mohamed Moftaker, Maroc, 2020, 112’ [ INFO ]
  2. Une librairie à Paris, Sergio Castellito, Italy/France/USA, 2021, 89’ [ INFO ]
  3. Zankat Contact, Ismael El Iraki, Maroc, 2021, 120’ [ INFO ]
  4. Costa brava Lebanon, Mounia Akl, Liban, 2021, 106’ [ INFO ]
  5. 4 saisons (4 courts métrages), Imad Badi, Maroc, 2015-2020, 89’ [ INFO ]
  6. Mediterraneo, Marcel Barrena, Spain, 2021, 100’ [ INFO ]