After a year’s delay, the first multiplex in the Moroccan port city of El Jadida is scheduled to open this July. Managed by CINEATLAS, it will contain three cinemas with a total of 338 seats. The building also houses a library, a garden and an auditorium. The project was initiated by Pierre-François Bernet, a French …
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FICAM (the Festival international du cinéma d’animation de Meknès) celebrated its 20th anniversary from May 6th to 11th. Organized jointly by the Aïcha Foundation and the Institut français, the festival celebrated Moroccan animated films by creating the first Moroccan animation film forum. The forum ran from May 6th to 8th, bringing professional animators together with …
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The SNRT (Société nationale de radiodiffusion et de télévision) and its committee for monitoring equality organized a study-day entitled “The fiction of the SNRT: representation of the image of women in the collective imagination”. An audience of academics, researchers and broadcasting professionals reflected on the stereotypes produced by drama films. An article on the Yabiladi …
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The Commission d’Aide à la Production des œuvres cinématographiques, chaired by Ghita El Khayat, has announced which films will receive an advance on box office takings. Taking all categories together – features, documentaries and shorts – the Commission considered nearly 80 films in its first session of 2022. Among them 5 features, 6 documentaries and …
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Franco-Moroccan director Jérôme Cohen-Olivar has announced he has started casting his next film, Autisto. This is the first co-production between Morocco and Israel, with the United States also participating. The film-maker is particularly happy with this partnership, “having always,” he says, “admired Israeli cinema, its depth, its sensitivity, its subjects.” Autisto is about an Israeli …
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In a recent press release, the Marrakesh International Film Festival Foundation announced that its 19th edition will be held from November 11th to 19th. The last two festivals were postponed because of the pandemic, and the Foundation has said that“this year’s event will take into account the evolving health situation in Morocco and in the …
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Soufiane El Khalidy heads the cast of a new detective series, The Octet, directed by Ahmed Medhat and produced by the Saudi group MBC. It centres on an Interpol agent, Adham, investigating the murder of his girlfriend and her sister at a party in Cairo. Soufiane El Khalidy stars alongside two other Egyptian actors Asser …
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