The pioneer of Africa's first multiplexes, the French company Megarama, is now threatening to withdraw from Morocco. The source of the 94-year-old founding CEO's frustration? A new law prohibiting film distributors from operating cinemas.
The Marrakech International Film Festival (FIFM 2024) paid a posthumous tribute to Naïma Elmcherqui on Tuesday during a special ceremony filled with emotions. Her daughter, Yasmine Khayat, highlighted the public's attachment to the late artist, whose love for the audience reflected her passion for cinema.
French-Moroccan director Saïd Hamich Benlarbi presents his second cinematic work. On Sunday, La mer au loin (Across the Sea) was screened at the Marrakech International Film Festival (FIFM 2024), competing alongside 14 other feature films.
The 21st edition of the Marrakech International Film Festival (FIFM 2024) opened on Friday evening with the presentation of the jury chaired this year by Italian director Luca Guadagnino. Returning to this event, which he attended for the first time 2011, Australian director Justin Kurzel presented his feature film «The Order», rooted in the very current themes of white supremacy.
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.
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