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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Running from May 2nd to 7th and organised by the Association de Culture par l’Education et l’Audiovisuel (ACEA), the 8th Agadir International Documentary Festival (FIDADOC) presented its awards at a ceremony at the Town Hall. The “Nouzha Drissi” Grand Prix went to Liubov Durakova and Alisa Kovalenko’s Polish-Ukrainian “Alisa in Warland”: the self-portrait of a …
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From April 16th to 19th the Moroccan Observatoire de l’Image et des Médias is organizing the third CAP Spartel Film Festival in Tangier on “Cinema and the arts”. This year the festival will focus on analysing “the intimate, ontological relationship linking cinema to the other arts”. 18 short documentaries and dramas, Moroccan and international, are …
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Planned for the autumn of 2014 and repeatedly postponed, filming for the third season of “Kaboul Kitchen”, one of Canal Plus’ in-house creations, will finally begin this spring. The production team will be in Morocco as from March 21st. The first two seasons were shot in Casablanca and Marrakesh. The new season will follow a …
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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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The private channel Medi 1 TV, which until now has offered generalist programming, will become a news and discussion channel from 2016. In an interview with the Medias24 website its CEO, Abbas Azzouzi, detailed the reasons this reorientation. “Since the Arab Spring, several mainstream news channels have lost their lustre. Moroccan, North African and African …
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David Lowery‘s new film “The Yellow Birds”, with American actress Jennifer Aniston, is currently filming in Morocco. Adapted from Kevin Powers‘ novel of the same name, the film is about two young soldiers, Bartle, 21, and Murph, 18, who meet at a training camp. They promise to look after each other, but the war will …
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