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MOROCCO / The drama short film “Riad de mes rêves” chosen for the 2021 Meraki Film Festival

Riad de mes rêves

Zineb Tamour’s film has been selected for the final phase of Germany’s Meraki Film Festival. Shot in Rabat and Salé, the director says her film is a “form of protest – on the one hand to raise awareness about Moroccan women’s limited access to the film industry and its related professions; and on the other …

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MOROCCO / “Autisto”, first co-production between Morocco, Israel and the United States

Jérôme Cohen Olivar

Franco-Moroccan director Jérôme Cohen Olivar has given the first details of his upcoming film “Autisto” in an interview with the Moroccan news channel Le360. “Autisto” is about Ronit, a Jewish woman from Tel Aviv, and her long fight for her autistic and epileptic child. When yet another epileptic seizure sends her son to hospital, Ronit seems …

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MOROCCO / New reality TV show

Starting on November 24th, 2M’s schedule will be enhanced with a new reality TV show: “Who Will Invest in My Project? Startups Special”. Launched in partnership with the telecoms operator Inwi, this “tech show” combining reality TV with entertainment will bring start-ups and investors face to face. The show will be presented by Medhi Boukhari …

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MOROCCO / Zineb Tamourt’s Riad de mes rêves wins award

Moroccan director Zineb Tamourt won Best Screenwriter for Riad de mes rêves at New Zealand’s RedWood Festival. Her short film is set in Casablanca at the end of the 1970’s: Hiba, 12, has always been passionate about the arts. Close to her home something called a cinema opens. Fascinated, she breaks her mother’s prohibition and …

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MOROCCO BULGARIA / Moroccan presence at the Sofia International Film Festival

Morocco was represented at the 24th Sofia International Film Festival (FIFS) which closed on October 15th. This year’s Festival marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Organization Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), and to celebrate, the organisers put together a special programme: “Francophonie 50”. It opened in the presence of the Moroccan Ambassador to Sofia, the …

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MOROCCO / The Ouarzazate studios stop work

Although in normal times Morocco, and particularly the region around Ouarzazate, attracts many international productions, these are now rare because of the Covid pandemic. Since March, foreign productions in the Ouarzazate studios have had to stop working. Only two international projects have been completed, Cherry by Joe and Anthony Russo (United States) and a Spanish …

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FRANCE / Some new faces on the CMCA’s Board of Directors

The CMCA Board of Directors met on September 9th. With Jérôme Cathala of France Télévisions and Maria Du Bessé of Rai, Chair and Vice-Chair of the CMCA, both moving on to other responsibilities in their respective companies, the Board was obliged to vote new members to fill these two key positions. Three candidates were proposed: …

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