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Adopted at the end of 2024, a draft law on the film industry – which will also affect the Centre cinématographique marocain – aims to modernise the secto Initiated by the Minister of Culture, Mohamed Mehdi Bensaid, the new law would rejuvenate the film industry. As Mohamed Khouna, the chair of the CCM’s Commission to …
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Having previously postponed the 10th Panorama International Short Film Festival (PISFF), on January 14th the organisers announced the event will now run from February 4th au 8th in Tunis. Created in 2016 by the Association of Parents and Friends of the Disabled in Tunisia (APAHT), the festival supports and shows the work of local 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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Hicham El Jebbari’s Ana Machi Ana is the first Moroccan feature to be dubbed into Egyptian Arabic and distributed in Egyptian cinemas. Interviewed by the online magazine 360, the director said he is: “very proud of this initiative, a first for a Moroccan film. By dubbing Ana Machi Ana into Egyptian Arabic we wanted to …
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The 2024 Golden Rhyton Film Festival was held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria from December 13th to 19th. Specialising in Bulgarian documentary and animation, this 28th edition screened 53 films in competition and 19 in the Open Horizons selection. The jury – writer Radoslav Bimbalov, animation director/producer Dimitar Petrov, cinematographer and documentary film-maker Nikolay Stefanov, art history …
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Bulgarian director Iglika Triffonova has started production of her feature film Kalunyo. The first phase of filming was in November 2024, the second phase will continue between May and June 2025. Adapted from a best-selling Bulgarian novel by G. Bozhinov, the film revisits the book’s ethical and philosophical themes through a story set during the …
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