News about audiovisuel in MAGHREB Region
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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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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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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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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Soraya Mouldji, the Algerian Minister of Culture and the Arts, is launching a major national film project with the creation of the first film-production city in southern Algeria, in Timimoun. Known as “Oasis-cinema”, the project was launched by signing an agreement to transfer ownership of the 1.5 hectare site. The idea is to promote and …
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During the 38th Haifa Film Festival (October 8th – 17th) there were several meetings between major players from the Moroccan and Israeli audiovisual industries to discuss the challenges of the two countries creating a cooperation agreement on film production. During one of these meetings Yaron Shamir, the artistic director of the Haifa Film Festival, talked …
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Medhi Bensaïd, Morocco’s Minister of Youth, Culture and Communication, met with representatives of Netflix to discuss what the American platform can offer the country. Their discussion on October 3rd is the first of many, leading perhaps to a strategic partnership. Several points were discussed. The first concerns the platform’s development and product promotion in Morocco. …
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