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By Nada LMISRI
The fifth edition of the International Festival of Cinema Schools of Tetouan (FIDEC) kicked off on Monday night at the Spanish Theater in Tetouan.
The FIDEC is organized by the Faculty of Humanities and Letters of Tetouan (Abdelmalek Essaadi University) and the Bidayyat ARTCINE Association (composed of academics, cinema professionals, laureates of the Specialized Master in Documentary Cinema and doctoral students in Arts and Cinematographic, Audiovisual and Scenic Studies) with the support of the Moroccan Cinematographic Center and Moroccan and foreign organizations and institutions.
The opening ceremony of this edition, which continues until November 30, 2019, has had a massive presence of an audience passionate of the seventh art (filmmakers, writers, artists, teachers, actors, students, students, film critics , journalists, researchers, ...) and was marked by a vibrant tribute to Moroccan film critic and researcher Hammadi Gueroum and German filmmaker and writer Viola Shafik.
The FIDEC jury that will deliver its verdict at the closing ceremony is composed of four members: the film critic and Moroccan researcher Hammadi Gueroum, the German filmmaker and writer Viola Shafik, the Greek university professor Filareti Kotsi and the French Roxane Riou, programmer for Tënk of the Beach First Bobines.
FIDEC offers the Moroccan public and its guests a rich and varied cultural program: screening of dozens of films made by young creators from around the world, special screenings for schoolchildren, training for Moroccan teachers, master classes, tributes, meetings professional ...
This 5th edition is distinguished by the celebration of 10 years of training and film studies in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of Tetouan. This is the result of the praiseworthy efforts of Professor Hamid Aïdouni, Festival Director and President of the Bidayyat Association, who has the merit of integrating research, training and film creation into this faculty since 1987, with few means but a lot of willpower, ambition and dedication. He created in 2009 a Professional License in Cinematographic Studies, a Specialized Master in Documentary Cinema and Doctoral Training in Arts and Cinematographic, Audiovisual and Scenic Studies. He recently founded an international university film and visual arts magazine '' Mirage ''.
FIDEC asserts itself as a reference in the Arab and African world and is now positioned thanks to the rigor of its selection and the quality of its organization, in just five years of existence, as an unmissable event on the scale internationa
