Category: MAGHREB

News about audiovisuel in MAGHREB Region

Arab World / MAD Solutions launches MAD Crew Celebrity

MAD SOLUTIONS

Production and distribution company MAD Solutions has launched MAD Crew Celebrity: a new division specializing in promoting the careers of directors, writers, producers as well as DP’s, costume designers, composers and editors. Modelled on their actors’ agency MAD Celebrity, this new off-shoot will be managed by Angie Skaik under the supervision of MAD Celebrity’s Executive …

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Algeria / The ban on “Ben M’hidi” lifted

Ben M’Hidi

Banned in Algerian cinemas four years ago, Ben M’Hidi has now been approved by the viewing committees of the Ministry of Culture and the Arts and the Ministry of Mujahideen and Rights Holders. Directed by Bachir Derrais and written by Mourad Bourboune, the film traces the life of Larbi Ben M’hidi, from his childhood in …

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Tunisia / Image education project “Mille et un films” will continue

CNCI-Mille-et-un-films

Launched in 2016 by film director Moncef Dhouib, the image education project Mille et un films is being renewed for 2023. Financed by the Ministry of National Education and the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image (CNCI), this project introduces pupils aged 8 to 14 to film making. Every year across the country’s 24 …

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Algeria / Restoring 10 classic Algerian films in 2023

L’épopée de Cheikh Bouamama

During the international symposium “Cinema and Citizenship Issues” in Oran, Mourad Chouihi, director of the Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Audiovisuel (CNCA) announced that the Centre will be restoring and digitizing at least 10 classic Algerian films in 2023. Since 2012 the CNCA has restored 16 films, including L’aube des damnés (1965) by Ahmed …

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ALGERIA / The exhibition “60 years of Algerian cinema” opens

Chronique des années de braise

To celebrate the 68th anniversary of the start of the Algerian war of independence, the Lumières association is organizing an exhibition tracing the history of Algerian cinema at the L’Afrique cinema in Algiers. Entitled 60 years of Algerian cinema, it shows posters of classic films, photographs of famous actors working on film sets and portraits …

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MEDITERRANEAN / Programme of the 22nd Brussels Cinemamed

Cinemamed

The 22nd Brussels festival for Mediterranean films, Cinemamed, will be held from December 2nd to 10th. On the opening evening there will be a screening of Maryam Touzani’s Le Bleu du Caftan. Created in 1989, this festival highlights films rarely seen in Belgium, providing “a space for dialogue and exchange between North and South, between …

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Tunisia / 33rd Carthage Film Days

JCC

The 33rdJournées Cinématographiques de Carthage(JCC – Carthage Film Days) took place from October 29th to November 5th. Created in 1962, this festival celebrates films from the African continent and the so-called “Southern” cinema. Managing Director Sonia Chamkhi values ​​heritage films as much as contemporary work, regardless of genre and style. Above all, she highlights “original …

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