The 10th Fidadoc (Agadir Documentary Festival) was held from June 19th to 23rd. Created by producer Nouzha Drissi, the festival aims to revive the documentary genre in Morocco and promote it across the Kingdom, North and West Africa.
The Franco-Moroccan director Hicham Falah is now in charge of the festival, he told the newspaper Le Monde that “Ten years ago, there were virtually no documentaries in our broadcasting. Apart from a few individuals, mainly Moroccans living abroad, no one made or showed documentary films in Morocco. Fidadoc’s tireless work has had a considerable impact, since the word “documentary”, “wathai’qi”, is now back in common use. The place of the documentary in our country has completely changed. Today, everyone wants them, everyone wants to make them, everyone wants to broadcast them. The Moroccan Film Centre gives an advance on ticket-sales for feature-length documentaries, and since 2012 the television channel 2M has been showing documentaries in the early evenings.”
This year the festival gave the human rights award to “Amal”, Mohamed Siam’s Egyptian film about a teenager struggling to find freedom in an Egypt in transition.
Source : Le monde
