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France / The Fameck Festival of Arab Film honours Algeria

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The 33rd Festival of Arab Film in Fameck (eastern France) will put Algeria in the spotlight. This year’s festival coincides with the 60th anniversary of the Evian agreements which ended France’s 8 year war with Algeria. The festivities will take place in Fameck from October 6th to 16th. Organized by the Cité Sociale and the …

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Algeria / Aïn Témouchent: Restoration of the Soummam cinema

Jeux méditerranéens Oran 2022

During the 19th Mediterranean Games in Oran, the former Capitole cinema (renamed Soumman) reopened its doors after more than 30 years. Like the Olympic Games, the Mediterranean Games is a sporting event held once every four years, but only for countries around the Mediterranean basin. This year the games were held in and around Oran …

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Algeria / The government responds to the worries of film professionals

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Film industry professionals are once again voicing concerns about the abolition* of Algeria’s only state aid for film production, the Fund for Cinematographic Techniques and Industries. On June 4th a new open letter, signed by more than fifty film professionals, was sent to the Ministry of Culture. The letter refers to the importance of cinema …

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Algeria / Death of the actor Ahmed Benaïssa

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Ahmed Benaïssa, well-known both in theatre and the film world, died during the Cannes Film Festival. He was 78. He had been invited to Cannes for his work in Clément Cogitore’s film Goutte d’Or (Sons of Ramses) in which he played the character of Younes. The film is set in the multicultural district of Paris …

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Algeria / “La Rockeuse du Désert”, a documentary about Hasna El Bacharia

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Sara Nacer’s documentary La Rockeuse du Désert was premiered during the Vues d’Afrique festival in Montreal on Thursday April 7th. La Rockeuse du Désert traces the career of the first woman to play the guembri, Hasna El Bacharia. The guembri is an instrument with three strings attached to a rectangular sound box, “the only instrument,” …

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Algeria / Professionals worried that film industry subsidies will end

Emblème de l'Algérie

The Algerian government has formally abolished the film industry’s finance fund (FDATIC), originally intended for every stage of film production, from writing to post-production, distribution and theatrical release. Film archives and events also benefited. Faced with the end of this, the only public film finance, industry professionals are worried, criticising the lack of transparency which …

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Algeria / Mayna:  a series looking for a distributor

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The Algerian series Mayna, directed by Walid Bouchebbah and written by Lamia Kahli, is looking for a broadcaster in the month of Ramadan. In March the production company, Atyaf, organised a special press screening at the CNCA (Centre national du cinéma algérien) so the film-makers could present the series and explain the problem to journalists. …

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