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SPAIN MOROCCO / 14th Festival of African Cinema

This year’s Festival of African Film will be held in Tarifa from April 28th to May 6th and in Tangier from April 30th to May 5th. This is the second of these cross-border events. It will run simultaneously in Tarifa (Spain) and Tangier (Morocco), two cities separated by 14 kilometres of sea. For Mane Cisneros, …

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MOROCCO / Film production has brought 280 million dirhams into Morocco

Morocco is now one of the leading film locations in the world, whether for cinema or television, for big budgets or small productions. In April 2015 The Guardian even called Morocco the second best international base for making films. The Centre Cinématographique Marocain announced that in 2016 MAD 280 million (about €26 million) had been …

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MOROCCO / Filming “Desert storm” in Morocco

  Desert Storm, a new feature by Chinese director Dante Lam, is being filmed in several Moroccan towns until the end of May. The inhabitants of Rabat have seen their town centre transformed into scenes of war, with military vehicles and extras dressed in battledress. According to executive producer Zakaria Alaoui, Desert Storm is one …

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MOROCCO / Films being made in Morocco: tempting measures to help production studios

The Moroccan parliament has approved a package of measures to promote major film projects made in the country. The new law will come into force this year, with the aim of creating jobs in the film industry. According to Amine Tazi, managing director of Atlas Studios and CLA Studio, the measures to help producers will …

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MOROCCO / Birth of the Fédération Marocaine du Cinéma d’Amateurs

After three years of discussion, the Moroccan Amateur Film Federation held its first AGM on January 28th 2017. The session was well-attended, with 15 amateur clubs and associations, 4 of them in the process of being created, as well as individual film-makers, both amateur and professional, critics and journalists. During the meeting the Federation’s status …

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MOROCCO / 4th Tangier Cap Spartel Film Festival

The Observatoire Marocain de l’Image et des Médias is organizing its fourth “Cap Spartel Film Festival” from April 5th to 8th in Tangier. The theme will be “Film and Borders”. Indeed the festival’s aim this year is to show that “there is not only exile across geographical borders, but also across our own frontiers”. For …

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MOROCCO / Call for films for the 9th Student Film Festival

The association Arts et Metiers is organizing the 9th International Student Film Festival (FIFE) in Casablanca from November 22nd to 25th 2016, in collaboration with the Institut IHB Art Média. A call for entries has been made for this year’s festival, whose theme is “Horizons”. Any student recently graduated or in their final year are …

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