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Fouad Zouirik
I am writing to you right now from a cafe in the center of Amsterdam Airport. I can not wait to get home to write comfortably. I was on the plane while I was coming back from Istanbul. I read a lot of articles and saw a lot of figures gathered specifically to find out the fate of Moroccan cinema in recent years.
Moroccan cinema does not progress as some claim but delay, or at least let's say that its career has stopped precisely since the strict assumption of Fassi Fihri management of the Moroccan Film Center, not talking about films but talking about the sector, about the system as a whole, now it has passed four years since the appointment of Fassi Fassi Successor to Noueddine Sail . Al The failure of the Justice and Development Party (Islamic party) to manage many sectors has also had a disastrous impact on the cinema sector, which was proceeding smoothly and steadily in the direction of its former director. The new director is well aware that his reign will be devastating and certainly this was the intention and purpose of his appointment originally. Everyone knows the hostility of the Moroccan "Islamic brothers" to film and art in general.
In 2013, an attempt was made to create 350 to 400 cinema theatres over the next ten years. Half the time has now passed. How many halls have been established from 400 public halls? Nothing, of course, but even some of the Moroccan festivals that we were proud of before others have declined and become a non-existent, many important initiatives and agreements were taken and concluded in the previous era did not apply despite the passage of years, Hope to develop the sector? Are they actually downloaded and exploited? I doubt ... Instead of exerting effort and investing the gains of the previous era and developing it between the actions and policies of adolescent and improvisational director of the new, every time creates a fuss of nothing, but the structure of the Cinematic Center itself was not delivered from this improvisation Unfortunately, even the films that succeed in our country remains successful, are confined to its makers and has nothing to do with the center.
The professionals and filmmakers working in the sector are often complaining and criticizing the policy of the center, which is dedicated by its president, but all this resentment takes place behind the scenes without taking a proactive step forward to stand in front of these barriers. They do not dare to unify their entities and create a counter-power to confront them. All they do is waste their energies and efforts. In side battles against each other, even those who criticize him behind the curtain and rush to shake him publicly, bowing the head in submission and humiliation, how does one dare not even to impress on a post that criticizes the situation to take a stand or revolution against the current film policy and whenever I met him encouraged you What you write and said to you by the letter that you speak in his tongue and justified you not to interact with the justification of films, although you did not ask him originally and does not concern his mark or admiration because telling the truth is a duty and does not need thanks from anybody, of course there are those who direct their arrows to the Director of the Center and policies but unfortunately most of them seek to achieve personal goals have nothing to do with the public interest.
Four years have passed on the reign of FAssi fahri still in the throne of cinema in Morocco and the outcome is that we are still to this day scribbled on the legacy of |Noureddibe Sayel era, thankfully, but we have cleared a lot of his steps and gains in the eraser of the current president, I do not want to make a comparison between the person of the current director and the former until we stand on our hands today. The comparison will inevitably be unfair and humiliating, if we were in a country that respects art and cinema and knows the value of the latter, which in our time became one of the most powerful and powerful weapons, we saw Fassi Fihri as the director general of the Moroccan Cinema Center in front of our parliament to present its outcome and to hold accountable for every action done , but unfortunately this did not happen and will never happen. I do not know Noureddine Sayel and I never met him - although i will be honored to meet him - as I do not know FassiFahri whom i did not meet him too, but the numbers and acquisitions speak on their behalf, even their appearance in the programs and media meetings shows you the huge difference between the level of this and that, Clearly the cause of the current crisis in this sector.
I want anyone to see that I am wrong in what I claim to present to the gains achieved by this sector in the era of its strict director .
