News about audiovisual in Algeria
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In February the Centre Algérien de la Cinématographie launched the first issue of Cinémathèque. This quarterly magazine is supervised by Adel Mekhalfia, who runs the Cinémathèque d’Alger. “The aim,” he explains, “is to provide readers with a comprehensive and stimulating overview of the cinematographic landscape, while celebrating the talents which shape it.” According to the …
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Organized from February 11th to 15th the 9th National University Short Film Festival presented 22 short films, 9 of which came from universities in Tunisia, Libya and Iraq. Based on the theme “Film, a language of unity – the festival, a symbol of freedom”, the event offered a short film competition with workshops for students. …
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Organized with the support of President Abdelmadjid Tebboune, the National Convention on Cinema brought together more than 1,000 industry professionals. They met in January to reflect upon and discuss the development of this sector. There were five workshops, each one covering an issue affecting a different area of the industry: economy and finance, governance and …
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As the Amazigh New Year was being celebrated in Constantine, Ali Aissaoui began filming The Roché, a documentary about the city’s history. Produced by the Malek Haddad Cultural Centre, this 52-minute documentary will retrace the history of this pre-Roman town built on a rocky plateau. Filming will take place in the heart of the city …
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The 14th Luxor African Film Festival took place from January 9th to 14th. This year 11 feature films were shown in competition. The jury – screenwriter Tamer Habib (Egypt), director Moussa Sène Absa (Senegal), director Ibrahim Shaddad (Sudan), director Sofia Djama (Algeria) and actress Akosua Busia (Ghana) – awarded the Special Jury Award to Abdenour …
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Agora Djerba and the Focus Gabès Association have launched CinémaTdour, a 38-tonne truck transformed into a 100-seat cinema which for several months has been travelling through Tunisia. The project was created because of the lack of cinemas in Tunisia, particularly in the country’s rural areas. This travelling cinema truck is a way “of reaching a …
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The 7th El Gouna Film Festival was held from October 24th to November 1st. This year the event, which showcases new voices in world cinema, offered 83 films from 48 countries divided into 5 categories – including the Fiction Feature Film Competition and the Documentary Film Competition. On the fiction side, the films included Algiers …
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