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73 articles available in total starting from 18/09/2002. Last article published on 10/12/2024.

Sofia Alaoui  • Director of Animalia

Interview: Sofia Alaoui • Director of Animalia

“We have stuck Arab cinema in a pigeon-hole: I want to fight against these stereotypes”

We spoke to the Moroccan-French filmmaker about her fantastical feature debut, set in Morocco and raising important questions about faith  

20/01/2023 | Sundance 2023 | World Cinema Dramatic Competition

Sisterhood by Nora El Hourch is now in post-production

Sisterhood by Nora El Hourch is now in post-production

Bérénice Bejo and young actors Leah Aubert, Medina Diarra and Salma Takaline all star in the director’s first feature film, produced by Manny Films and sold by Memento International  

07/12/2022 | Production | Funding | France/Morocco

La mer au loin wins an award at the Atlas Workshops

La mer au loin wins an award at the Atlas Workshops

Saïd Hamich Benlarbi, Katy Lena Ndiaye, Mamadou Dia, Dania Bdeir and Sameh Alaa scoop development prizes, and Luck Razanajaona, Amjad Al Rasheed and Boubacar Sangaré get the post-production ones  

21/11/2022 | Marrakech 2022 | Atlas Workshops

Shooting imminent on Kamal Lazraq’s Hounds

Shooting imminent on Kamal Lazraq’s Hounds

Steered by Barney Production in co-production with Mont Fleuri Production and Beluga Tree, the filmmaker’s first feature will be sold by Charades  

04/10/2022 | Production | Funding | France/Morocco/Belgium

Review: The Damned Don’t Cry

Review: The Damned Don’t Cry

VENICE 2022: Fyzal Boulifa’s beautifully made second feature charts the divergent fortunes of a mother and her late-adolescent son in Morocco, who are forced into itinerant, unstable work  

14/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Review: Queens

Review: Queens

VENICE 2022: Yasmine Benkiran’s debut feature is a parable on female emancipation in Morocco transposed into a hard-hitting road-movie, replete with police tails  

09/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | International Film Critics’ Week

Review: The Blue Caftan

Review: The Blue Caftan

CANNES 2022: Maryam Touzani’s second feature is a moving, poetic and beautifully acted story of love, death and fear  

27/05/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Un Certain Regard

Tarik Saleh • Director of Boy from Heaven

Interview: Tarik Saleh • Director of Boy from Heaven

"As an immigrant child, I’m standing of the shoulders of my grandparents"

CANNES 2022: The Swedish filmmaker of Egyptian origins discusses the topics he tackles on his latest film, and how they relate to his personal and professional background  

26/05/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Competition

Review: Boy from Heaven

Review: Boy from Heaven

CANNES 2022: There’s wall-to-wall intrigue and conspiracy within the confines of Cairo's Al-Azhar University, in Tarik Saleh’s new outing  

23/05/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Competition

Episode 22: Queens (France/Belgium/ Morocco/Netherlands)

Episode 22: Queens (France/Belgium/ Morocco/Netherlands)

The producers of Yasmine Benkiran's film are invited to speak about their collaboration and the financing of their film, which has received Eurimages support  

17/12/2021 | The Co-production Podcast

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