Category: CINEMA

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FRANCE / Arte co-produces Gianfranco Rosi and Dror Moreh’s new documentaries

Arte has announced that ARTE France Cinéma and ARTE France will be funding two new cinema documentaries: “Beyond Lampedusa” by Italian director Gianfranco Rosi and “The Corridors of Power” by Israeli director Dror Moreh. Both focus on crises in today’s world. Best known for “Below Sea Level” (2008), “El Sicario, Room 164” (2010) and “Sacro …

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TUNISIA / “Tournez, mesdames”: Women film-makers in the spot-light

“Tournez, mesdames!” (Make films, ladies) said Alice Guy-Blaché, the film industry’s first woman director, in 1914. A century later, women directors continue to enrich our way of looking at the world. They fight, invent, shatter stereotypes. And their films, full of humour, fury or impertinence, help us discover other realities, other truths. Women film-makers are …

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MOROCCO / Filming Larry Charles’ “Army of One”

Morocco is the base location for Larry Charles’ new film “Army of One” with American actor Nicolas Cage in the lead role. This new comedy is based on the true story of Gary Faulkner, nicknamed “Mountain Rambo”, a former prisoner of Colorado who sets off alone to hunt for Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. He …

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MOROCCO / Evaluation of Moroccan film production in 2014

Sarim Fassi Fihri, head of the Centre Cinématographique Marocain, announced a record investment in film and television productions shot in Morocco in 2014. 38 foreign productions were made there: 27 feature films (Mission Impossible 5, American Sniper, Exodus, Queen of the Desert) and 11 series (Transporter, Odyssey). In all, 1.17 billion dirhams were generated by …

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MOROCCO / Closure of Tétouan’s Teatro Español

At the moment Tetouan has two cinemas, the Avenida and the Teatro Español. However very soon the town which is hosting the International Festival of Mediterranean Cinema will only have one. Indeed, the Spanish news agency EFE announced that Teatro Español, built in 1930 and converted into a cinema in the 1950’s, would be closing …

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TUNISIA / Opening of new film club “Cinéma du Sud” in Ben Arous

The association Open Art Tunisia has opened a film club “Cinéma du Sud” – a continuation of the tradition of the Ben Arous region in the seventies and the 2000’s. Once a week the club offers locals a chance to see good films with an ambitious programme of screenings. OPEN ART is contributing to the …

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TUNISIA / Release of “El Ziara”

Naoufel Saheb-Ettaba’s film “El Ziara” (Black Moon) is a North African co-production which opened in cinemas in February. Made with the financial support of film institutions in Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria and with the assistance of the Fonds francophone de production audiovisuelle du Sud, it is a psychological drama about “the search for identity of …

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