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Written by Allal El Alaoui
It
is indeed a complex question whether there is a cinema of the youth or young
cinema, but obviously there is young cinema or simply young people who have been
successful to make beautiful movies such as Orson
Welles, Sam Peckinpah and Truffaut not forgetting some Arab
film makers who have been good to produce handsome movies when they were in the
early age naming for example Shadi Abdel Salam, Youssef Chahine
and Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
There is a French
proverb that says "If only young people know and if only old people can".
It is true that young people are asked to dare in order to write and realize
their own vision in movies. However, how can youth create knowing that their
minds are old? It is a sort of phobia that young people of Morocco are
suffering from today especially this question is remarked by too many
university professors either in Marrakech; Rabat, Casablanca, or even Fez.
Young people are
confronted with two main elements that influence them in making their careers.
First is money I mean to say Box office .I know a young film maker living in
Salé who is continuously cursing system
by scorning official head masters of media .However, his rage is not translated
in cinema. He is trapped into box offices headaches and of course the size of
money that he can make out of it. Unless for example an Indian film maker ,
Yash Shopra,recently died who works
silently but makes controversial movies already marked in history of cinema of entertainment
naming for example his beautiful film called Veer-Zaara
that was successful to unite two struggling countries Pakistan and India.
Because of this strong message of this film, frontiers between these two
countries are open. From this context, I want our young people to use their
rage in making cinema like the one of Shopra.
The second thing that
faces young people is creation or art. Art films are not easily made. But, creation
can be fruitful if they work on it by hard work like reading international and
national books, watching all kind of movies and discuss them with lucid and
intelligent minds. Participating in film festivals can help to create criteria
mind either in amateur film festival or professional one. Amateur film festival
sometimes surprises us with introducing beautiful films. But if an amateur film
festival intends only to make controversy or money then things become difficult.
This happens Kalaat Des Sraghna Short Film Festival with Mustapha Chaabi's short film called
"Al Qods Abnadem" and my short film called" The will" that were
selected in competition .At the end, when the jury presents awards, its head
master Mohamed chwika states that our films named above can not be awarded because
they are too professionals. Why do film festival director call professionals
film makers then? What is the game? I can not get it.
