News about audiovisual in Algeria
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Soraya Mouldji, the Algerian Minister of Culture and the Arts, is launching a major national film project with the creation of the first film-production city in southern Algeria, in Timimoun. Known as “Oasis-cinema”, the project was launched by signing an agreement to transfer ownership of the 1.5 hectare site. The idea is to promote and …
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At this time every year many countries are choosing a film to submit to the Best Foreign Film category of the Oscars. Only films produced outside the United States are eligible and their primary language must not be English. The rules of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts also state that each country can submit …
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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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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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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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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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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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