This year the Panorama of North African and Middle Eastern Film will celebrate its tenth birthday. It will take place between March 31st and April 19th just outside Paris in Saint-Denis and Seine-Saint-Denis. Audiences will see the latest films from North Africa and the Middle East through a selection of some fifty films from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt, Syria and their diaspora across the world, in the presence of film-makers, producers, actors and invited cinema personalities.
This year the festival is also focussing on Moroccan cinema, as a tribute to the films with which it began in 2006: 15 fiction films and documentaries, a carte blanche to the Cinémathèque de Tanger, a masterclass with Hakim Belabbes and a special guest of honour, Salim Fassi Fihri, head of the Centre cinématographique marocain (CCM). A special tribute will also be made to filmmaker René Vautier, who died on January 4th.
Many other cultural events will enhance this birthday edition: three round tables (“Distribution of Southern Films: What distribution circuits, festivals and cinemas”, “Representations of Muslims in French Society”, “Cinema and Creative Freedom in the World”) and a discussion for professionals (“Shooting a Short Film in North Africa: What Opportunities?”)
More information on the web-site www.pcmmo.org
Source: pcmmo.org
