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MOROCCO / Casa/docks: documentaries in the spotlight

In Casablanca, Casa/Docks is a new open-to-all cultural initiative to broadcast documentary films every week. Every Monday at Casablanca’s ABC Cinema, the public will be able to see independent documentaries, programmed to illustrate a new theme each month. There will also be discussions with freelance directors and actors. This month the theme is “How to …

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MOROCCO / 3rd Europe-Orient Festival of Documentary Film

The 3rd Europe-Orient Documentary Film Festival, organized by the Moroccan Association for Media Studies and Documentary Films, will be held in Assilah from October 14th to 17th. This year China is guest of honour. A selection of documentary films on the theme Europe-Orient will be screened at Asilah’s Bandar Ben Soltane Library and the Hassan …

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MOROCCO / New talk-show on Medi1TV

In September, a new programme called “60 minutes pour comprendre” (60 minutes to understand) was aired on Medi1TV. It looks at two distinct aspects of national and international news, punctuated by a short report illustrating the debate. The first part focusses on national and local news while the second deals with “international news and its …

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MOROCCO / FIFM: Francis Ford Coppola chairman of jury

This year, Francis Ford Coppola, director of “The Godfather” trilogy and “Apocalypse Now”, will chair the jury of the 15th Marrakesh International Film Festival (MIFF), according to a statement from the Festival Foundation. Isabelle Huppert did the job in 2014 and Martin Scorsese in 2013. Founded in 2001, the festival is dedicated to film and …

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MOROCCO / Benkirane’s complaint against 2M rejected

On July 2nd the Conseil Supérieur de la Communication Audiovisuelle (CSCA) rejected the request by Abdelilah Benkirane, the head of the Moroccan government. He had asked the Haute Autorité de la Communication Audiovisuelle (HACA) to take action against those at the public television channel 2M responsible for violating the broadcasting laws by re-transmitting live Jennifer …

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MOROCCO / Digitisation of Moroccan film archives

The Board of Directors of the Centre Cinématographique Marocain (CCM), chaired by the Minister of Communications Mustapha El Khalfi, announced the launch of two major projects: the digitization of the national film archives (500 feature films), and the creation of a film lab to save and archive films. A tender was launched for the film …

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MOROCCO / Several foreign films being shot

Morocco is currently hosting some of the filming Ang Lee’s new film “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk” in Ourzazate, with American actor Vin Diesel in the role of the soldier Shroom. The film is an adaptation of Ben Fountain’s book “End of half time for Billy Lynn soldier” about a 19 year old American soldier, …

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