The French group Pathé Cinemas continues its expansion in Africa with the opening of its first cinema in Morocco. Having built others in Tunisia and Senegal, Pathé opened the Pathé Californie Casablanca on December 19th with the group’s president, Aurélien Bosc, officiating. During the ceremony Monsieur Bosc said his group had invested the substantial sum …
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MOROCCO / “La Plaie”, Seloua El Gouni’s first feature
Seloua El Gouni’s film La Plaie (The Wound), which recently completed shooting in Casablanca, is now in post-production. Producer Taha Benghalem, co-founder of the production company Pink Sheep, talks about the film, which is distinguished by its “100% Moroccan” character. With a budget of 4 million dirhams (around 370,000€), this drama explores the complex mix …
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MOROCCO – FRANCE / Morocco celebrated at the Fameck Arab Film Festival
The 34th Fameck Arab Film Festival took place from October 5th to 15th with Morocco as the country in the spotlight. The event, organized by the Cité Sociale de Fameck and the Ligue de l’enseignement, offered more than 40 films (feature-length dramas, documentaries and shorts), many of which are new or in preview. Film-makers from …
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MOROCCO / Martin Scorsese to patron of the 6th Atlas Workshops
American director Martin Scorsese has been named patron ofthis year’sAtlas Workshops, the talent-development programme for young creators at the Marrakesh International Film Festival. Scorsese has been invited five times since the festival’s creation, in particular as jury president in 2013 and then for the tribute to Robert De Niro in 2018. “I am always very …
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MOROCCO / Art’s Factory helps young talents
Created by producer Siham El Faydi, the Art’s Factory’s training programme hosted 60 young artists from the Casablanca-Settat region for three months. Organized in partnership with the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, this programme helped young people aged 16 to 32 produce an animated film, a short film and the pilot for a web-series. It was …
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MOROCCO / “The Mother of All Lies” wins the Sydney Film Festival’s Official Competition
Moroccan director Asmae El Moudir won the Official Competition of the Sydney Film Festival for The Mother Of All Lies. Conceived as a drama-documentary, the film explores the director’s family history and the lies told around the devastation and violence of the 1981 riots in Casablanca. Without using archival images or photographs, she meticulously recreates …
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MOROCCO / 1.6 million viewers watched the 1st episode of the documentary “Ana Bidaoui – Les Mémoires de Casablanca”
Broadcast by 2M as part of the programme Des Histoires et des Hommes, the first episode of the documentary series attracted 1.6 million viewers. Produced by 2M and Ali n’Productions, this series, consisting of four 52-minute episodes, was written by Rita El Qessar and directed by Nourredine Lakhmari. Through interviews with historians, architects, archaeologists and …
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