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Movies of the Maghreb |
| Section: THE ARTS / FILM |
| Author: David H. Ehrlich |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 9/1/1991 |
| Size: 1,362 Words, 8,360 Characters |
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Visions of Moorish delights ... Beautiful houris glimpsed through seven veils ... Turbaned cavalry brandishing curved scimitars ... Sindbad the Sailor and Ali Baba. While all this may have been Hollywood's (and thus Western audiences') notion of North Africa a generation and more ago, it is very far from what filmmakers from that part of the world are portraying today.
Washington, D.C.'s annual Filmfest this year presented a comprehensive introduction to the cinema of the Maghreb 1991, that region of North Africa comprising Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. A sampling of five superb new Maghrebi films was shown and discussed by a delegation of directors and producers, including Tunisian Ferid Boughedir and Moroccans Mohamed Tazi and Farida ben-Lyazid.
Serving as an introduction to...
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... films with the emotional power and universal appeal evidenced by the sampling seen in Washington this year, the Maghreb cinema may indeed have a promising future. As Hassan Daldoul, producer of several of the films shown, says, "Artistic greatness is found everywhere, and it's our job as Maghrebis and Arabs to find it in our own hearts and minds and translate it for the rest of the world." vbcrlf
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