Film Festival in Zagora to feature desert films
2008-06-10
When the fifth Trans-Saharan Film Festival opens on June 12th in the southern Moroccan city of Zagora, it will have a special emphasis on desert and Sahara-themed films, MAP reported. Films from Spain, China, Burkina Faso, Algeria, Canada, Belgium and Hungary are among those to be screened at the festival. The three-day programme includes a symposium on the Moroccan desert in cinema and workshops for local high-school students.
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BENCHIHA Posted 2008-08-01
Hello, I would like to make a documentary film on the nuclear testing that took place in the Sahara in the late 1950s and is continuing to contaminate the region. Thank you, Larbi Benchiha 1, rue de Crozon 35670 Saint Gregoire France
حمزة Posted 2009-06-21
A nice greeting. In reality, Zagoura cinema festival focused on screening daring Moroccan films: “Casa Negra”, “Veil of love”, worst of all is that they were screened in the open air in the public square of Culture House in front of kids, women, young men, women, fathers...No one ignores hot scenes and vulgar vocabulary featuring the first film from beginning to end. Worst of all is the use of loudspeakers magnifying the sound to the point that even those who didn't attend were able to hear. This is Summer which means that Zagoura is hot, families are sleeping on terraces of their homes, shame on them. Zagoura is a tourist region which is in need to be introduced to others but these films were of no use and helped in nothing. Everyone today has satellite dishes and internet. If they want anything they will search for it. They needn't have to show us this impudence to our mothers, sisters, sons and daughters... A nice greeting again.
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