Born in Casablanca to a family from Tangier, filmmaker Leila Kilani studied history and economics in Paris before embarking on a career in film. A graduate of the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHSS), she discovered her cinematic calling through the need to question her society, beyond the foreign-grafted media discourse.
Living between Morocco and Italy for five years and settled down in Venice for a year, Marouane Bahrar has been dreaming of creating the project of a mobile cinema since 2010. Twelve years later, this project is finally born, screening films in 80 Moroccan villages.
In Morocco, several movie theaters had to close their doors due to the ups and downs of the local movie industry. From Godzilla to Titanic, every cinema had a story to tell.
Having an immigrant background changed the pace of his life and artistic career, moving from theater to cinema. For decades, Mohamed Ouachen has campaigned to make of diversity the center of his work in Brussels.
In 1897, Louis Lumière directed one of the first movies to be shot in Morocco. «The Moroccan Goatherd» paved the way for the production of other films in the Kingdom.
Born in France, comedian Hafid Stitou is a jack of all trades. After having entered the cinema industry by chance, he is now making himself a name slowly but surely.
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