By Said Temsamani Morocco World News Washington, June 19, 2013 Every winter of each year the International Film Festival of Marrakesh is held for a stretch of four days. It is renowned for its prestige in terms of cinematographic production and is comparable to the Cannes film festival in the south of France. The Marrakech Film Festival was established in 2001 and has become Morocco’s largest annual event f ...

By Youssef El Kaidi Morocco World News Fez, May 29, 2013 Moroccan cinema which has attracted international attention over the last two decades for its thematic and technical qualities and also for the expansion in the number of films produced annually will be hosted in Brussels from 7 to 9 June, 2013. “Welcome Morocco” is a cultural event that will render tribute to Moroccan cinema and allow the Belgian and ...

CANNES, France, May 26, 2013 (AFP) The sexually graphic lesbian love story "Blue is the Warmest Colour" on Sunday scooped the top Palme d'Or prize at the Cannes Film Festival. French-Tunisian director Abdellatif Kechiche's three-hour film set Cannes abuzz with its explicit unsimulated sex scenes and has made a star out of one of its lead actresses Adele Exarchopoulos. ...

CANNES, France, May 24, 2103  (AFP)  Leonardo DiCaprio is going to get closer to stars of a different kind as he heads into space aboard the Virgin Galactic, and a well-heeled bidder at the Cannes Film Festival has paid 1.2 million euros (1.5 million) to be his travel buddy. The Holywood star's sub-orbital trip was among 20 goodies up for grabs at the 20th amfAR bash, a gala auction that is one of the glitz ...

Sidi Moumen -May 15, 2013 (AFP) “There’s no water, no work and no future. There’s nothing at all here,” says Hamid bitterly as he walks through the sprawling slum of Sidi Moumen in Casablanca made infamous 10 years ago. The grim prospect is nothing new to residents of the Moroccan city’s notorious shantytowns. But it hangs heavily here because it was Sidi Moumen that produced the suicide bombers who struck ...

By Youssef Sourgo Morocco World News Casablanca, April 24, 2013 The Faculty of Letters and Humanities Ben M’sik (Hassan II-Mohammedia University) organizes the 19th edition of the International Video Art festival in Casablanca. The opening of the festival took place yesterday April 23 at Ben M’sik Faculty of Letters and Humanities, in the presence of Moroccan university students and professors, video profes ...

By Loubna Flah Morocco World News Casablanca, April 21, 2012 The short movie “The Projectionist” by Najat jellab starts with a dark scene and a sharp knock on the door. The interplay between day light, a dim tunnel light and darkness is the most captivating and consistent thing in jellab’s movie. Though the director seems to have chosen to  leave the viewers by themselves without providing many labels (char ...

By Youssef Sourgo Morocco World News Casablanca, March 23, 2013 The 19 edition of Tetouan's Mediterranean Film Festival was laucnhed today. This edition of the annual festival will feature the exhibition of the latest film productions in various Mediterranean nations. Most of the movies exhibited in this festival were awarded in previous national and international film festivals. An example of these success ...

By Youssef Sourgo Morocco World News Casablanca, March 22, 2013 The Moroccan film "The Horses of God," by Nabil Ayouch, was selected to participate in the official competition of the second edition of the Luxor African Film Festival(LAFF) in Egypt. The Festival, which will end on March 24th, will see the participation of sixty movies according to its organizers. The kickoff of the second edition of the Luxo ...

By Tarik Elbarakah Morocco World News Rabat, February 25, 2013 The Iranian semi-official news agency “Fars” altered an image of the United States’ first lady Michelle Obama at the Oscars Sunday night in order to fit the mindset of its conservative readership, ABC NEWS reported on Monday. The original photo was showing Mrs. Obama wearing a sleeveless silver gown by Indian-born designer Naeem Khan which expos ...

HOLLYWOOD, Feb 24, 2013 (AFP) Here are some interesting and offbeat facts about this year's Oscars: -- The youngest and oldest nominees ever appear in one category, for the first time since the earliest Oscars: nine-year-old Quvenzhane Wallis is nominated for best actress for "Beasts of the Southern Wild," while 85-year-old Emmanuelle Riva is up for her role in "Amour." The French star turns 86 on Sunday, w ...

By Youssef El Kaidi Morocco World News Fez, February 14, 2013 After an absence of five years, the director of Le Harem de Madame Osmane (2000), Viva Laldjérie  (2004), and Délice Paloma (2007), the Franco-Algerian film director, Nadir Moknèche, returns with a feature film under the title Good Bye Morocco produced by Bertrand Gore and Nathalie Mesuret and released in French cinemas on Wednesday February 13. ...