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By Allal El
Alaoui
Only 31 cinema theatres still resist in Morocco.
It is an embarrassing fact for the new comer, the director of CCM. Filmmakers
and critics are wondering about this disastrous decrease in number of cinema theatres
and the big question remains as this: why do we still produce Moroccan films? It
might be the second critical criteria that also faces the new director/producer
of CCM called Sarem Fassi Fihri.
The New director,
known of his cool western hat and his expensive Cuban cigarettes, is welcomed
by media ,directors and producers to promote and give a new breath to national
cinema not ignoring the magnificent job of his previous colleague, Nouredine Sail
who has himself made great efforts to reopen Moroccan cinema theatres,
unfortunately his dreams do not come true .Unlike Nouredine, Sarem is very actif in the field of production and
has produced movies of handful of Moroccan filmmakers such as Hakim
Noury,Ahmed Boulane and Nabil Ayouch . Administratively
speaking,CCM needs
to be reorganized by inserting new technical staff,new technoclogy and above
all new vision of the future of Moroccan cinema.This is a job that Sarem is planning to realize .But,when
?
In his Cinematic
column inserted mysteriously into the International Film Festival of
Mediterranean countries 2014 edition, Sarem Fassi
Fihri has written
in English which is something new for Moroccan cinema-goers .May be it is a
sign to suggest that Moroccan cinema
should be known to THE WORLD unlike x – CCM director Nouredine Sail who only sticks to Pascal country ,France .Of course, Arabic is much more used from Moroccan cinema-goers ; critics and
screenwriters because it is the first spoken language.
Only 56
short films in
competition coming from Mediterranean countries. However, Panorama
films do not exist
anymore in the festival due to the non virement of financial support to the Festival
which eventually needs more than 150.000.000 dirham to cover the cost and
charges of invited people .The sum of money that we have mentioned before;
cannot be released from Moroccan official sponsors, or Tangiers local supporters .I let you guess the dramatic suspense that is happening between Rabat and Tangiers.
