Regional partners
22/04/2013
Safaa Kaddioui, culture representative at the EU Delegation in Morocco
Euromed Audiovisual spoke to Safaa Kaddioui, communications and culture representative at the Delegation of the European Union in Morocco, during the Dia Sud Med-organised conference on teaching filmmaking held on April 17 and 18 at the Marrakesh...
15/04/2013
Mediterranean women in film and television: Hiba Tawadji, Lebanese singer and filmmaker
"Cinema is the first art to react to political events”
Hiba Tawaji is a young Lebanese singer, filmmaker and actress. Her star shines in the Eastern sky and her voice has already crossed the borders of her country, Lebanon. El Watan Week-end met the artist in Morocco for the screening of her short...
08/04/2013
Damir Elyakouti, director of Morocco's National Amateur Film Festival
"We encourage amateurs to create to bring back people to the culture of images"
From April 9 to 13, Settat, a town south of Casablanca, is holding the seventh edition of Morocco's National Amateur Film Festival. The festival is fast becoming a real springboard for young talents. Its organisers love to cite the names of those...
04/04/2013
Abdeslam Kelaï, Moroccan director of Malak
"In our societies, cinema is the spearhead of modernity"
Malak, Moroccan director Abdeslam Kelaï's first narrative feature, is one of several Moroccan films to have made headlines so far this year. In Tangier, at the last edition of Morocco's National Film Festival in February, Malak won no less than...
03/04/2013
Boukhalfa Amazit, Algerian journalist and screenwriter
"Our country's history is an endless source of inspiration"
A well-known writer in journalist circles, with his experience, passion, and talent, Boukhalfa Amazit has specialised in writing screenplays for historical films. He spoke to Algerian magazine Bab edd’Art. To make good historical films, one needs...
31/03/2013
Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, director of Inch'Allah
Euromed Audiovisual met the Canadian filmmaker in Belgiun
Inch'Allah, a film that made its European premiere in the Panorama section at the Berlinale last February where it received the FIPRESCI prize and a Jury Special Mention, takes us into the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It's Quebec...
26/03/2013
Ibrahim Yaghi, Palestinian producer
"We need to show another image of Gaza"
Ibrahim Yaghi, a participant in the second cycle of the Euromed Audiovisual-supported DOCmed training initiative, has just screened his documentary Gaza 36mm at a private event in Beirut. Euromed Audiovisual met the rising producer. Ibrahim Yaghi...
22/03/2013
Nour-Eddine Lakhmari, Moroccan director
"A film is first of all working on shots"
Born in Safi, the town that gave Moroccan cinema its pioneer Mohamed Ousfour as well as other great filmmakers like Mohamed Reggab, Nour-Eddine Lakhmari first studied science in Morocco and France before shifting to cinema in Norway, where he...
19/03/2013
Ahmed Atef, Egyptian director of Bab Sharqi
"Art must move souls"
He is a film critic at Al Ahram, one of the biggest Egyptian newspapers, writes journalist O. Hind for Algerian newspaper L’Expression. After having studied in Egypt, France, Germany, Spain and the United States, Ahmed Atef started his career as...
18/03/2013
Mohamed El Aboudi, Moroccan director
"I wanted to give voice to these marginal beings"
Euromed Audiovisuel met Moroccan director Mohamed El Aboudi to discuss his documentary Dance of Outlaws at the Tangier Film Festival in February. A Finnish-Norwegian co-production, this documentary film borrows its narrative codes from fiction to...
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