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Bakery films are the best because you can almost smell & taste everything they're making right through the film. This one looks good. Here's the official US trailer (+ intl. poster) for Maryam ...
Lasri belongs to the new generation of Moroccan filmmakers. He attained international renown with his stark, black-and-white debut film, “The End,” which screened in the Cannes Film Festival ...
A Moroccan woman's search for truth tangles with a web of lies in her family history. As a daughter and filmmaker, she fuses personal and national history as she reflects on the 1981 Bread Riots ...
Moroccan helmers explore new genres There's a new wave of filmmakers in Morocco making innovative use of genre filmmaking techniques.
Less than half the tickets sold are for Moroccan films. Morocco’s film authority has offered $5.9 million in support to 32 films this year, roughly $184,000 per movie.
The film — selected as one of the festival’s 70 features and approved by authorities to be shot in Morocco — is a queer tale of two young men spending a summer on a ... “I am Moroccan.
The latest feature film by Nabil Ayouch, Everybody Loves Touda, has won two awards at the Critics’ Awards for Arab Films, held alongside the Cannes Festival from May 13 to 24, 2025.
Moroccan filmmaker Asmae El Moudir has made history at the 20th edition of Morocco’s Marrakech Film Festival as the first local director to win its top prize with her hybrid documentary The ...
Some films disappear through mere neglect, but those that vanish after being suppressed bear witness, in their absence, to a challenge to power. So it is with “About Some Meaningless Events ...
While Moroccan films are traditionally relegated to arthouse cinemas, "Casanegra" is hip, stylish and engaging enough to break out further -- if it weren't for its two-hour running time.