For the third year running, Africa in Motion is collaborating with the Transnational Moroccan Cinema (TMC) project at the University of Exeter. Five of these prize-winning films will be screened and many leading film-makers and commentators will be present at a major symposium (at the University of Edinburgh) on the international impact of Moroccan film.
Africa in Motion (AiM) Film Festival runs from the 26 October – 4 November 2018
Africa in Motion is Scotland’s major annual celebration of African cinema, and is to return for the13th year to bring audiences in Edinburgh and Glasgow a wide variety of creative stories from across the African continent.
Since its inception in 2006, Africa in Motion has introduced nearly 45,000 audience members to the brilliance and diversity of African cinema, screening over 500 films. For the third year running Africa in Motion collaborates with the Transnational Moroccan Cinema (TMC) project at the University of Exeter. AiM has always ensured that North African films are fairly presented at
the festival, recognising the region’s contributions to African cinema as a whole. Contemporary
Moroccan cinema is flourishing and winning prizes locally and internationally. Five of these prize-winning films will be screened at AiM, including Volubilis (Faouzi Bensaidi, 2017), Apatride (Narjiss Nejjar, 2018), House in the Fields (Tala Hadid, 2016) and Burnout (Noureddine Lakhmari, 2017).
This year we are showcasing five outstanding Moroccan feature films and three amazing shorts; a
workshop on experimental documentary making at ECA; and an international symposium at Edinburgh University, Morocco in Motion: The Global Reach of Moroccan Cinema, dedicated to expanding the debates and discussions on the global reach of Moroccan cinema.
“We are really excited to be partnering once again with the TMC project and are thrilled to devote a section of our programme to highlighting the greatness of Moroccan cinema” - Myriam Mouflih, Programming Assistant at Africa in Motion.Some of the most established filmmakers from Morocco are coming to Scotland, such as Farida Benlyazid, Nour-Eddine Lakhmari, Hakim Belabbes and Ali Essafi, alongside producer extraordinaire Lamia Chraibi.
Experimental and new work by younger filmmakers such as Touda Bouanani, Sofia El Khyari, Nadir Bouhmouch, Meriem Jabi, Lamyâa Achary and Chamiaa Lehnech will go into dialogue with each other, with critics talking about challenges and opportunities for Moroccan film to be seen
globally, on the African continent, in the Arab world and in the West.
La Septieme Porte (Ali Essafi, 2018), an experimental documentary about Moroccan filmmaker Ahmed Bouanani will screen at Edinburgh College of Art alongside Fragments de Memoire, a short film by Bouanani’s daughter, Touda, exploring the remains of her father’s archive.
The symposium programme is available here: Programme
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