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Fatima Boubekdi
Fatima Boubekdi (born May 17, 1970, in Casablanca) is a Moroccan filmmaker, screenwriter, dramatist. She studied film directing in Morocco, graduating from the High Institute of Theatrical Arts and Cultural Animation, ISADAC. She is known for her works that draw inspiration from Moroccan folklore. Biography After a brief theatrical training in Casablanca, and in Rabat at the High Institute of Theatrical Arts and Cultural Animation, Boubekdi discovered a penchant for directing. She worked alongside Farida Bourquia in 1995 as an assistant director. A year later, she wrote screenplays with filmmakers Mohamed Ismaïl, Hassan Benjelloun and Abdelmajid R'chich. In 1999, she directed her first television film, ''The Door of Hope''. In 2006, she won three prizes at the second edition of the National Amazigh Film Festival for ''Hammou Ounamir'' (Grand Prize, Best Directing) and ''Imouran'' (Best Screenplay). In 2021, Boubekdi released her first feature film, ''Annatto''. The filmmaker, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casablanca, Morocco
Casablanca (, ) is the largest city in Morocco and the country's economic and business centre. Located on the Atlantic coast of the Chaouia plain in the central-western part of Morocco, the city has a population of about 3.22 million in the urban area, and over 4.27 million in Greater Casablanca, making it the most populous city in the Maghreb region, and the eighth-largest in the Arab world. Casablanca is Morocco's chief port, with the Port of Casablanca being one of the largest artificial ports in Africa, and the third-largest port in North Africa, after Tanger-Med ( east of Tangier) and Port Said. Casablanca also hosts the primary naval base for the Royal Moroccan Navy. Casablanca is a significant financial centre, ranking 54th globally in the September 2023 Global Financial Centres Index rankings, between Brussels and Rome. The Casablanca Stock Exchange is Africa's third-largest in terms of market capitalization, as of December 2022. Major Moroccan companies and many of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Institute Of Theatrical Arts And Cultural Animation
High Institute of Theatrical Arts and Cultural Animation (ISADAC) (French: Institut Supérieur d’Art Dramatique et d’Animation Culturelle) is a public Moroccan training institution that prepares students for careers in the arts. It is located in Rabat Rabat (, also , ; ) is the Capital (political), capital city of Morocco and the List of cities in Morocco, country's seventh-largest city with an urban population of approximately 580,000 (2014) and a metropolitan population of over 1.2 million. .... Three concentrations are taught: acting, scenography and cultural animation. History Placed under the supervision of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports, the institute was created by Decree No. 2.83.706 of 18 January 1985. Since its establishment in 1986, the Institute has played an important role in the development of the arts in general and the development of the stage, cinema, television and radio in particular. Admissions Admission to the institute is by competitive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farida Bourquia
Farida Bourquia (born 1948) is a Moroccan film director, "one of the first Moroccan women to make filmmaking a career both on the screen and in television". Life After studying drama in Moscow from 1968 to 1973, Bourquia taught dramatic arts at the Conservatory of Casablanca. For most of her career, she has worked for the public broadcaster, Radiodiffusion-Télévision Marocaine, making documentaries and children's programs. For International Women's Year in 1975, Bourquia made several documentaries about Moroccan women - the first Moroccan documentaries to be entirely produced and directed by a woman. Her 1982 feature film ''The Embers'' told the story of three orphaned village children. ''Two Women on the Road'' (2007) was "a Moroccan version of the American classic female road movie, ''Thelma and Louise Thelma is a female given name. It was popularized by Victorian writer Marie Corelli who gave the name to the title character of her 1887 novel '' Thelma''. Although the char ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohamed Ismaïl
Mohamed Ismaïl (1 September 1951 – 20 March 2021) was a Moroccan film director. He directed the 2008 film '' Goodbye Mothers''. References Moroccan film directors 1951 births 2021 deaths {{Morocco-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hassan Benjelloun
Hassan Benjelloun (; born April 12, 1950) is a Moroccan screenwriter, director and producer. He is best known for his 2007 comedy '' Where Are You Going Moshé? (Où vas-tu Moshé?).'' Biography Benjelloun was born in Settat. He was born in a family of ten children in 1950. In 1965, he studied science at Abdelmalek Essaadi High School in Kénitra. He attended the Abdelmalek Essaadi high school in Kenitra before passing his baccalaureate in Caen where he continued his studies, pursuing postgraduate studies in pharmacy. He graduated in 1976 and worked at the Faculty of Medicine in Casablanca. In 1979, He passed his bachelor's degree in Caen where he continued by studying pharmacy from which he graduated in 1976. He decided to open a pharmacy in his native town of Settat. In 1980, he decided to study directing at the Conservatoire libre du cinéma français (CLCF) in Paris where he obtained his diploma. Hassan Ben Jelloun's love and passion for the seventh art led him to register in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdelmajid R'chich
Abdelmajid R'chich (also spelled Rechiche) (born March 28, 1942, in Kenitra) is a Moroccan filmmaker. Biography R'chich studied directing at the IDHEC in Paris, where he graduated in 1963. Upon his return to Morocco a year later, he worked at the Moroccan Film Center (CCM) as a cameraman, before putting his film career on pause for a year to study anthropology and art history at the Université libre de Bruxelles The (French language, French, ; lit. Free University of Brussels; abbreviated ULB) is a French-speaking research university in Brussels, Belgium. It has three campuses: the ''Solbosch'' campus (in the City of Brussels and Ixelles), the ''Plain .... Filmography Short films * 1968: ''6/12'' * 1970: ''Forêt (Forest)'' * 1973: ''Al Boraq'' * 1975: ''La Marche verte (The Green March)'' * 1978: ''Scènes de chasse au Dadès'' * 1982: ''Le Maroc Reve des Investisseurs'' * 1988: ''Itineraires D'Enface'' * 1993: ''Mosquée Hassan II (Hassan II Mosque)'' * 1995: '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television Film
A television film, alternatively known as a television movie, made-for-TV film/movie, telefilm, telemovie or TV film/movie, is a film with a running time similar to a feature film that is produced and originally distributed by or to a Terrestrial television, terrestrial or Cable television, cable television network, in contrast to theatrical films made for initial showing in movie theaters, Direct-to-video, direct-to-video films made for initial release on home video formats, and films released on or produced for Over-the-top media service, streaming platforms. In certain cases, such films may also be referred to and shown as a miniseries, which typically indicates a film that has been divided into multiple parts or a series that contains a predetermined, limited number of episodes. Origins and history Precursors of "television movies" include ''Talk Faster, Mister'', which aired on WABD (now WNYW) in New York City on December 18, 1944, and was produced by RKO Pictures, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berbers
Berbers, or the Berber peoples, also known as Amazigh or Imazighen, are a diverse grouping of distinct ethnic groups indigenous to North Africa who predate the arrival of Arab migrations to the Maghreb, Arabs in the Maghreb. Their main connections are identified by their usage of Berber languages, most of them mutually unintelligible, which are part of the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family. They are indigenous peoples, indigenous to the Maghreb region of North Africa, where they live in scattered communities across parts of Morocco, Algeria, Libya, and to a lesser extent Tunisia, Mauritania, northern Mali and northern Niger. Smaller Berber communities are also found in Burkina Faso and Egypt's Siwa Oasis. Descended from Stone Age tribes of North Africa, accounts of the Imazighen were first mentioned in Egyptian hieroglyphs, Ancient Egyptian writings. From about 2000 BC, Berber languages spread westward from the Nile, Nile Valley across the northern Sahara int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of Morocco
The history of human habitation in Morocco spans since the Lower Paleolithic, with the earliest known being Jebel Irhoud. Much later Morocco was part of Iberomaurusian culture, including Taforalt. It dates from the establishment of Mauretania and other ancient Berbers, Berber kingdoms, to the establishment of the Moroccan state by the Idrisid dynasty followed by other Islamic dynasties, through to the colonial and independence periods. Archaeological evidence has shown that the area was inhabited by hominidae, hominids at least 400,000 years ago. The recorded history of Morocco begins with the Phoenician colonization of the Moroccan coast between the 8th and 6th centuries Common Era, BCE, although the area was inhabited by Berbers, indigenous Berbers for some two thousand years before that. In the 5th century BCE, the Ancient Carthage, city-state of Carthage extended its hegemony over the coastal areas.Pennell 2003, pp.7–9 They remained there until the late 3rd century BCE,Penn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moroccan Film Directors
Moroccan may refer to: * Something or someone from, or related to the country of Morocco ** Moroccans, or Moroccan people ** Moroccan Arabic, spoken in Morocco ** Moroccan Jews See also * Morocco leather Morocco leather (also known as Levant, the French Maroquin, Turkey, or German Saffian from Safi, a Moroccan town famous for leather) is a vegetable-tanned leather known for its softness, pliability, and ability to take color. It has been widely ... * * {{disambig Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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