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“Le Challat de Tunis”, a first feature by Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania, opened in cinemas on April 1st. The film-maker based her “documenteur” (a lying documentary – or mockumentary), on a 2003 news item: “A rumour was rampant in Tunis: a man on a motorcycle, armed with a razor, was slashing the buttocks of …
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To coincide with the theatrical release of his most recent film “Révolution Zendj”, Algerian film-maker Tariq Teguia was the guest of honour at the Centre Pompidou in Paris during a 10-day tribute to him in March. Two years ago “Révolution Zendj” won the Belfort Festival Grand Prix and the Scribe Award for Cinema. It is …
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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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“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 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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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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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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