From March 3rd to 21st the Panorama des Cinémas du Maghreb et du Moyen-Orient (Panorama of North African and the Middle Eastern Films) returns for its fifteenth year.
Organized by Indigènes Films, the PCMMO is an international film festival showing the diversity of film-making in the Middle East and North Africa. Every year for a fortnight there are screenings in both Paris and the neighbouring département of Seine-Saint-Denis. Previews, literary meetings, round tables, concerts and workshops are on the programme.
The festival has undergone some changes. When it was created in 2006 its aim was to introduce French audiences to Moroccan films. After two years the organisers decided to enlarge the cinematographic catchment area to take in all North African films. Then in 2012, for its 7th edition, it expanded further to include films from the Middle East as well as North Africa. The idea behind this progressive opening up has always been to show the richness of a cinema which sometimes has difficulty surviving in the commercial world.
But the Panorama des Cinémas du Maghreb et du Moyen-Orient doesn’t only exist during the festival fortnight. Throughout the year it creates many other activities – meetings, film club screenings, previews and evenings of “PCMMO’s Favourites”.
The programme for this 15th edition can be found here
Source :
http://www.pcmmo.org/
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