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On February 27th Ahmed Lahri, presenter of the 7:00pm News on the public Canal Algérie, was officially removed from the channel, a decision confirmed the next day by the Minister of Communication, Hamid Grine. Lahri is accused of having “spoken the name of Abdelaziz Bouteflika [President of the Algerian Republic] without mentioning his title” …
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The Ministry of Culture’s Film Department is taking advantage of the event «Constantine, 2015 capital of Arab culture», to organize a symposium on the conditions and problems facing Algerian film production. In partnership with the Centre National du Cinéma Algérien (CNCA) and the Centre Algérien du Développement (CADC), the symposium took place on March 5th …
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Malek Bensmail’ s feature-length documentary, “Contre-pouvoirs” (Fourth Estate), was released in France at the end of January. It lasts 97 minutes.
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Arav, the Algerian broadcasting watchdog, has no chairman. The incumbent, Miloud Chorfi, has been appointed Senator and has to leave office.
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Bachir Derrais, director of the feature film “Ben M’Hidi” told an interviewer for the Algerian newspaper L’Expression “either I make it the way films should be made or I stop!”
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It took 30 years, but the Annaba Festival of Mediterranean Film is well and truly back. Formerly known as “Mediterranean Film Days”, the event will run from December 3rd to 9th in the coastal city of Annaba at the Azzedine Medjoubi Theatre and at the Mohamed Boudiaf Palace of Culture, under the aegis of the …
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On November 21st the Algerian Minister of Culture, Azzedine Mihoubi, announced that shooting had begun for a feature film about Saint Augustine, a co-production with Tunisia. The film is being directed by Egyptian director Samir Seif. It will be “on cinema screens before the end of 2016”, said the Minister, who added that the project …
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