The 79th Cannes Film Festival has unveiled its official selection, and it includes several Mediterranean productions. The festival will take place from May 12th to 23rd. In the Un Certain Regard section, Moroccan director Laila Marrakchi will present her third feature La mas dulce (Strawberries). The film follows two young Moroccan women working in southern …
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The Centre Cinématographique Marocain (CCM) has announced its participation in the Annecy International Animation Film Market (MIFA), which will take place from June 23rd to 26th. Having launched a project call for Moroccan films wanting to be shown at the festival, the CCM chose five titles: two shorts (Ilias Khlifat’s Fati la poule and Lamisse …
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For the first time the Cannes Film Market is launching a half-day conference about the “creator economy”. It will take place on May 17th. The “creator economy” is the economy generated by content creators who use platforms and social media to reach their audience. According to the Film Market organisers, “this ecosystem […] is rapidly …
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The 21st Panorama of North African and Middle Eastern Film will focus on Tunisia. The event takes place in Paris from March 25th to April 12th. The organisers have announced this year’s programme: three Tunisian feature films will be screened, including Nouri Bouzid’s Les Sabots en or which was shown at the 1989 Cannes Film …
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The French public broadcaster France Télévisions, Rai (Italy) and ZDF (Germany) have commissioned an animated adaptation of The Saddle Club, a series of children’s books. Created by Bonnie Bryant, The Saddle Club books were published between 1988 and 2001 and have sold 16 million copies worldwide. They are about a group of friends who go …
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The Ministry of Culture has announced the appointment of Fabrice Lacroix as Chair of the Institut national de l’audiovisuel (INA). A civil servant and graduate of ESCP, Sciences Po Paris and ENA, Fabrice Lacroix has extensive knowledge of the public broadcasting sector, having been successively Chief Financial Officer at Radio France (2006-2009) and Deputy Director …
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On February 17th, at an extraordinary general meeting of the Board of Directors of the Arab World Institute in Paris and following a French government proposal, Anne-Claire Legendre was appointed to the Board and unanimously elected Chair of the Institute. She succeeds Jack Lang, who resigned after thirteen years. A career diplomat, Anne-Claire Legendre began …
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