Fez- In partnership with the local municipality, the Issni N’Ourgh Association is organizing the eighth International Amazigh Film Festival from November 12 to 18 in Agadir.
This year’s festival celebrates human rights through the filmography of director and producer Mylène Soloy.
Six long films, nineteen short films, and ten documentaries along with ten foreign films are in competition.
In the Guest Cinema competition, Mylène Soloy is participating with ten documentaries, as well as a film directed by Peter Gardiner of the UK in the presence Nezha Aqil, the main character in the film.
Another five films that are participating in the Guest Cinema competition are directed by Master’s candidates in Documentary Film from AixMarseille University, which is supervised by Pascal Sizarou.
The head of the judges for long films is Khadija El Bennaoui, while the judges for documentaries are led by director and producer Daniel Cling. Ait-Ali-Belkacem will bebe the head judge for video films.
The films will be screened in three different locations: the Brahim Radi municipality room, the Jamal Addorra cultural complex, and the University of Ibno Zohr in Agadir
The festival also has parallel activities in cooperation with local organizations, to enrich the national public library of cinema.
The activities include the signing of four of the association’s publications and two intellectual seminars with Tahar Houchi, the film critic and the artistic director of the International Festival of Eastern Films in Geneva, and Tunisian historian Mohamed Ben Saad Chibani.
The event will honor several artists, including the prominent Amazigh poet, Mohammed Mestaoui.
Edited by Timothy Filla
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