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MOROCCO / 3rd CAP Spartel Film Festival at Tangier

From April 16th to 19th the Moroccan Observatoire de l’Image et des Médias is organizing the third CAP Spartel Film Festival in Tangier on “Cinema and the arts”. This year the festival will focus on analysing “the intimate, ontological relationship linking cinema to the other arts”. 18 short documentaries and dramas, Moroccan and international, are …

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ALGERIA / Van Damme in “Algeria Pour Toujours 2”

“Algeria Pour Toujours: Les Portes du Soleil”, the first 100% Algerian-produced action and martial arts film, will have a sequel, due to start filming in Oran this April. Provisionally called “Algeria Pour Toujours: Protocole 33”, the sequel is produced by Zakaria Ramdane, who also plays the lead, and co-directed by Abdelouahab Saifi and Jean-Baptiste Jay. …

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TUNISIA / The Douz Doc Days are back… at Djerba

The 5th Douz Doc Days at the Sahara Museum in Douz was originally scheduled for October last year, before being cancelled for lack of budget. But now it will definitely take place: it has been relocated to Djerba “for financial reasons”, according to its director Hichem Ben Ammar, and will be held from March 20th …

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TUNISIA / A “ciné-ferme” in a green-house in Ghardaïa

While there are no more than a dozen cinemas in the whole of Tunisia – concentrated mainly in Tunis – Adnène Helali has launched an original initiative in the town of Ghardaia (in the north-east), a “ciné-ferme” or farm-cinema. A teacher and organizer of Printemps de Sbeïtla, a festival combining music, dance and theatre, Helali …

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ALGERIA / A measure for the image of woman on EPTV

The Etablissement Public de Télévision (EPTV) announced through its Director of Production, Lyes Belaribi, that it is taking measures to ensure the image of women presented in its programmes is “consistent with the spirit of the Algerian Constitution and laws of the Republic.” Henceforth, the public broadcaster will issue production contracts which include a clause …

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TUNISIA / Raja Amari completes her 3rd film, “Corps Etranger”

On March 8th the director of “Satin Rouge” and “Secrets”, Raja Amari, finished shooting her third feature film, “Corps Etranger” (Foreign Body) shot in Lyon and Tunisia. Co-produced by the French Mon Voisin Productions (Dominique Besnehard) and the Tunisian Nomadis Images (Dora Bouchoucha), the film is about a young woman arriving in France illegally after …

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MOROCCO / Canal+ begins filming the 3rd season of “Kaboul Kitchen”

Planned for the autumn of 2014 and repeatedly postponed, filming for the third season of “Kaboul Kitchen”, one of Canal Plus’ in-house creations, will finally begin this spring. The production team will be in Morocco as from March 21st. The first two seasons were shot in Casablanca and Marrakesh. The new season will follow a …

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