News about audiovisual in Morocco
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Adopted at the end of 2024, a draft law on the film industry – which will also affect the Centre cinématographique marocain – aims to modernise the secto Initiated by the Minister of Culture, Mohamed Mehdi Bensaid, the new law would rejuvenate the film industry. As Mohamed Khouna, the chair of the CCM’s Commission to …
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The 14th Luxor African Film Festival took place from January 9th to 14th. This year 11 feature films were shown in competition. The jury – screenwriter Tamer Habib (Egypt), director Moussa Sène Absa (Senegal), director Ibrahim Shaddad (Sudan), director Sofia Djama (Algeria) and actress Akosua Busia (Ghana) – awarded the Special Jury Award to Abdenour …
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Hicham El Jebbari’s Ana Machi Ana is the first Moroccan feature to be dubbed into Egyptian Arabic and distributed in Egyptian cinemas. Interviewed by the online magazine 360, the director said he is: “very proud of this initiative, a first for a Moroccan film. By dubbing Ana Machi Ana into Egyptian Arabic we wanted to …
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The 21st Marrakesh International Film Festival closed on December 7th 2024. The jury, chaired by Italian director Luca Guadagnino, viewed 14 films presented in the official competition. The big winner this year was Happy Holidays by Palestinian director Scandar Copti. Two of the film’s actresses, Manar Shehab and Wafaa Aoun, also won the Best Actress …
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The 7th El Gouna Film Festival was held from October 24th to November 1st. This year the event, which showcases new voices in world cinema, offered 83 films from 48 countries divided into 5 categories – including the Fiction Feature Film Competition and the Documentary Film Competition. On the fiction side, the films included Algiers …
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The Marrakech International Film Festival announced the projects selected for the Atlas Workshops which will be held during the Festival from December 1st to 5th. Launched in 2018, these Workshops support a new generation of emerging Moroccan, Arab and African film-makers by creating an environment for exchanges between professionals. This year, the Atlas Workshops will …
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The festival for Middle Eastern documentaries, Middle East Now, is preparing its 15th edition which will be held in Florence from October 15th to 20th. This year’s theme: Ecologies of Resistance. For the festival organisers this theme covers both the climate crisis and war, two tragedies they consider “deeply intertwined”. Using the earthquakes which hit …
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