52 films in the first session of the Beacon Festival of Mediterranean Cinema

First session of the Beacon Festival of Mediterranean Cinema, organized by the National Center of Cinema and Television 39; Image, The French National Film Festival, and the festival features cinematographic works produced by the Mediterranean countries.

The festival presents 52 films, each of which presents the concerns and problems of companies from 12 Mediterranean countries, including 10 feature films. The main jury of the contest includes the Egyptian artist Bouchra, Tunisian artist Sondos Belhassan, French-Lebanese actress Manal Issa, Belgian Natasha Rini and Palestinian Manal Awad.

The festival includes several activities, the first of which is the screening of films,. Besides presenting the success of Arab producers, presentation of the French activist and the president of the Fund to support the world cinema Charles Tyson with the director and producer Nabil Ayouch and the French writer Jacques Viasque on the dynamics of the South Bank of the Mediterranean.

The German-Italian film "Beyond Lampedusa" by Gianfranco was screened at the official opening of the festival: the Egyptian film "Green Yeast", which has already won many awards and participated in several international festivals including The Berlin Festival,

Festival events will continue in the capital Tunis and in a number of other Tunisian cities until Sunday, July 15th.