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News about audiovisuel in MAGHREB Region

Morocco – Israel / Jérôme Cohen-Olivar announces his new film “Autisto”

Valkyries Productions

Franco-Moroccan director Jérôme Cohen-Olivar has announced he has started casting his next film, Autisto. This is the first co-production between Morocco and Israel, with the United States also participating. The film-maker is particularly happy with this partnership, “having always,” he says, “admired Israeli cinema, its depth, its sensitivity, its subjects.” Autisto is about an Israeli …

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Tunisia / We DoQ, screenings of documentaries on the causes of LGBTQI+

Mawjoudin

The We DoQ event was held at the CineMadart in Carthage on Saturday March 19th. 9 short documentaries were shown, all addressing LGBTQI+ rights issues. It is one of the first events to deal with this subject in Tunisia or its region. Organized by two associations, Doc House and Mawjoudin, We DoQ questions assumptions about …

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Tunisia / Launch of “La Route Cinématographique”

route cinematographique

In partnership with Tunisia’s Ministry of Tourism, a German agency for international cooperation, GIZ, has launched the La Route Cinematographique or cinematographic journey. Initially planned for 2020, the project was finally announced on March 22nd this year. Also called “in the footsteps of cult films”, the project hopes to diversify Tunisia’s tourist offering by showing …

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Algeria / Professionals worried that film industry subsidies will end

Emblème de l'Algérie

The Algerian government has formally abolished the film industry’s finance fund (FDATIC), originally intended for every stage of film production, from writing to post-production, distribution and theatrical release. Film archives and events also benefited. Faced with the end of this, the only public film finance, industry professionals are worried, criticising the lack of transparency which …

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Algeria / Mayna:  a series looking for a distributor

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The Algerian series Mayna, directed by Walid Bouchebbah and written by Lamia Kahli, is looking for a broadcaster in the month of Ramadan. In March the production company, Atyaf, organised a special press screening at the CNCA (Centre national du cinéma algérien) so the film-makers could present the series and explain the problem to journalists. …

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Morocco / The Marrakesh International Film Festival returns from November 11th to 19th 2022

Festival International du Film de Marrakech

In a recent press release, the Marrakesh International Film Festival Foundation announced that its 19th edition will be held from November 11th to 19th. The last two festivals were postponed because of the pandemic, and the Foundation has said that“this year’s event will take into account the evolving health situation in Morocco and in the …

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Italy – Libya / After a Revolution, an Italian film about the war in Libya, wins the FIFDH Grand Prix

Affiche After a Revolution

During the closing ceremony of the International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights (FIFDH), the jury awarded the Grand Prix de Genève to Giovanni Buccomino’s After a Revolution. This documentary retraces the journey of a brother and sister divided by the Libyan civil war. She fought for the rebels and he sided with head …

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