Two major productions have been busy on the sound stages at the Ouarzazate studio. From June 13th to 18th the French actor-director Albert Dupontel was there, shooting part of his sixth feature, “Au revoir là-haut”, an adaptation of Pierre Lemaitre’s novel which won the 2013 Prix Goncourt. “Au revoir là-haut” is set at the end …
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From May 23rd to 27th the PriMed 2016 selection jury worked at the headquarters of 2M in Casablanca to choose the films which will go through to the final phase of the festival’s 20th edition in Marseille from November 20th to 26th. The CMCA (Centre Méditerranéen de la Communication Audiovisuelle), PriMed’s organiser, received nearly 350 …
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Rachid Niny to launch a new channel on Moroccan television: TM TV. Rachid Niny is a Moroccan journalist, columnist and editor. He has founded and co-founded several Moroccan newspapers and magazines (including Al Massae Magazine, Le Soir Echos, Nejma and the daily Al Akhbar). Today he’s branching out into broadcasting by preparing to launch a …
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From November 5th to December 15th Le Maghreb des Films will show sixty feature and short films in 11 Parisian venues and 40 cinemas around the city outskirts and in the provinces. Among these films, fifteen are being projected in pre-release, including the latest films by Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina (“Crépuscule des ombres” Twilight of the shadows), …
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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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The Centre Cinématographique Marocain (CCM) is organizing the 13th Tangier Festival of Mediterranean Short Film from October 5th to 10th. The programme includes a competition open to drama shorts made by film-makers from the Mediterranean in 2014 or 2015, a cinema course, press conferences about the films in competition and parallel activities. The deadline for …
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“Much Loved”, the latest film by Moroccan director Nabil Ayouch shown at the Cannes Film Festival in May, arouses strong reactions and debate. It has just been banned in Moroccan cinemas. According to a May 25th press release from the Ministry of Communications: “The Moroccan authorities have decided not to allow the screening of the …
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