Twenty-seventh edition of the Tetouan Festival of Mediterranean Cinema
The Tetouan Festival raises a great cultural challenge, in this circumstance, as it announces the resumption of its Mediterranean cinema project, after the Corona pandemic, which has known a virtual cycle.
Ivorian director Jacques Tarabi will chair the jury for the feature film in this session, and the name of this director has shined since his first film “To my mother”, when he won the best film award at the “Fespaco” festival in 1997. The jury president is also famous for his last film “Love Reward", which was directed by him in 2013.
The committee also includes in its membership the Spanish director and writer Mabel Lozano, the Moroccan novelist and film critic Mohamed Al-Arousi, and the Moroccan plastic artist Mohamed Al-Baz.
The Egyptian writer and critic Amal El-Gamal chaired the jury of the Criticism Award, which bears the name of the late Moroccan critic Mustafa El-Masnawi. Amal El-Gamal is a screenwriter for a number of films, and she has a number of studies on cinema, including “With the Eyes of a Woman” and “Cinema Cross-Gender”.
The Jury of the Criticism Award includes Moroccan researcher and screenwriter Laila Al-Sharradi, who specializes in Maghreb cinema, as well as Moroccan writer and critic Adel Al-Sammar, who is the author of studies on Moroccan cinema, and director of the digital platform “Arts – Morocco.” He also attends the Committee of the Spanish Film and Media Criticism Award Miguel Angel Parra, Vice President of the Scriptwriters Association of Andalusia.
The jury of the documentary film competition is chaired by the French director Marion Stalins, who is known for her documentaries on women's issues and freedom of expression. The committee also includes French director Fanny Hubert Mallory, consultant on cinema and new media at the Cultural Institute in Paris, and Moroccan critic Nadia Miftah, member of the World Cinema Support Foundation, as well as Tunisian filmmaker Fathi Kharrat, who served as Director General of the Audiovisual Department at the Ministry of Culture. Tunisian and the position of director of the film festival in Carthage.
Twelve feature films will be shown to the Long Film Committee and the Criticism Committee, in the Abneida Cinema Hall. While the films participating in the official competition are discussed immediately after their screening, throughout the festival days.
The Espanyol Cinema Theater will witness the screening of the opening and closing films, films for the honors section, films shown outside the official competition, and films programmed in the children's cinema section.
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