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Rabat – Laila Marrakchi’s feature film “Rock the Casbah” will be screened at the annual Helsinki International Film Festival (HIFF) in Finland on September 20.
Morocco’s participation at this festival will also include Mohamed El-Aboudi, a Moroccan screenwriter and director residing in Finland, as a moderator in a panel discussion on September 21.
The panel discussion is an opportunity to promote Morocco’s cinematographic reputation and its filming locations that have hosted many international productions.
Moroccan cinema will also be showcased with the inclusion of Sofia Alaoui’s film “Qu’importe si les bêtes meurent” in the short film category of the festival.
This year’s festival will include a selection of African films from the “African Express” catalogue where short films from African filmmakers will be screened as part of the “Short Station” catalogue. These two selections intend to showcase African cinema in all its diversity and richness.
The official site of the festival stated that “The films in this selection delve into inter-generational African perspectives on freedom, migration, cultural conflict, and agency.”
Additionally, the film festival’s website also said, “Directors and producers from different parts of the continent deliver textured films that do the essential job of telling African and the diaspora’s stories, which, like all universal stories, are not stagnant or static.”
The Helsinki International Film Festival, also known as the Love & Anarchy Festival (Rakkautta & Anarkiaa in Finnish), is a non-competitive Finnish film festival that has been held in Helsinki every September since 1988.
The name Love & Anarchy comes from the 1973 film of the same name directed by Lina Wertmüller, entitled “Film d’amour et d’anarchie” in French.
In 2016, the festival attracted around 60,000 people for more than 180 films screened.
