News about audiovisuel in MAGHREB Region
8 series made by Cedars Art Production were broadcast during Ramadan. With branches in Lebanon, Morocco, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, the company mainly develops television series and films for regional audiences. Three of the 8 series were produced in Egypt: Season 3 of a thriller Al Maddah, a comedy, Change of Mood …
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After its restoration as part of the 2022 Mediterranean Games in Oran, the Soummam cinema is waiting for an operator to run it. The ONCI (Office nationale de la culture et de l’information), responsible for many Algerian cinemas, has launched a call for tenders. In 2022 the Minister of Culture and the Arts, Soraya Mouloudji, …
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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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