News about audiovisuel in MAGHREB Region
The poster and programme of the 76th Cannes Film Festival (May 16th to 27th) have been revealed. Many of the films in the Official Competition and the Un Certain Regard section are from the Mediterranean area. This year the Official Competition includes a new film by Kaouther Ben Hania (Tunisia) – Les Filles d’Olfa. This …
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Moroccan director Yassine Marco Marroccu has started production of his feature film Scirocco. The film is set in Casablanca in the spring of 1961. Edoardo (43) embarks on a mission to salvage a mysterious ship wrecked on the Atlantic coast in a dangerous area controlled by local tribes and the Moroccan army. The ship is …
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Two Tunisian cinemas, the Amilcar and Ciné Jamil, closed their doors in March. The single-screen, 211-seat Amilcar, which opened in 2015 near the Tunis-Manar university campus, closed down on March 13th. The Ciné Jamil, on the outskirts of Tunis in the Menzah 6 district, closed soon afterwards. According to Ciné Jamil’s team they closed because …
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Khalid Saidi, acting CEO of the Centre Cinématographique Marocain (CCM), has announced that in 2022 foreign filming in the country earned two billion dirhams, or around €179 million. That nearly doubles October 2022’s original forecast of just over one billion. As a reminder, the turnover in 2019, the last year before all filming was halted, …
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As part of a training course organized by the Centre algérien de développement du cinéma (CADC), seven scripts, from among fifty submitted, have been selected to be put into production. All by young female writers, these scripts were presented during a masterclass at the Palais de la Culture Moufdi-Zakaria. Their subject-matter is varied – covering …
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After a two year break, Egyptian producer Amro Rachidi announced filming of Ahl Al Kahf (People of the Cave) will resume in Morocco after Eid and last for one month. Having already shot a third of the film in Egypt, the production chose to complete the filming in Morocco. The production is said to be …
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The Arab Film Festival Berlin (ALFILM) has announced the dates of its 14th edition. It will be held from April 26th to May 2nd 2023. Organized by the Zentrum für arabische Filmkunst und Kultur (Centre for Arab Cinema and Culture), ALFILM highlights creative film-making in the Arab world and its diaspora, showing films of high …
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