Tag: filmmaker
Maryam Touzani, an intimate filmmaker
Among Moroccan director Maryam Touzani’s cinema releases this week is her second feature film, the story of Mina and Halim, a united couple whose balance is about to be upset.…
Chile by Dominga Sotomayor, a country and a filmmaker to discover
Director and producer, Dominga Sotomayor is one of the guests of the Traveling de Rennes festival which welcomes this year, in its “focus on a foreign city” section, Santiago de…
Death of filmmaker Abdellatif Ben Ammar, one of the pioneers of the Tunisian 7th art
Tunisian director and producer Abdellatif Ben Ammar died Monday, February 6 in Tunis at the age of 79. He was a pioneer, a founding father of the Tunisian seventh art.…
disappearance of Swiss filmmaker Alain Tanner
He was one of the pioneers of the New Wave in Switzerland and several of his films have become cinema staples. Director Alain Tanner died yesterday in Lausanne at the…
filmmaker Jafar Panahi sentenced to six years in prison
Iranian filmmaker and opponent Jafar Panahi, arrested last week in Tehran, must serve a six-year sentence according to a verdict issued in 2010, the Judicial Authority announced on Tuesday July…
arrest of famous filmmaker Jafar Panahi
Arrests of dissident filmmakers and opposition political activists have increased in recent days. The filmmaker Jafar Panahi, Golden Bear for best film at the Berlin festival in 2015, was arrested…
Documentary filmmaker Ousmane Samassekou presents “Generation Africa”
His film, The last refuge was filmed at the gates of the Sahara, in La Maison des Migrants in Gao, Mali. Every year, this refuge welcomes people in transit to…
Israeli filmmaker Michale Boganim
Cultural guest The new film by Franco-Israeli filmmaker Michale Boganim hits French screens this Wednesday. Mizrahim, the forgotten of the Promised Land. The Mizrahim are, in Hebrew, the Orientals, the…
Sergei Loznitsa, Ukrainian filmmaker: “NATO and the EU will not avoid war”
He is one of the most famous Ukrainian directors in the world. Sergueï Loznitsa was in Paris to present his latest film Mr Landsbergis on the hero of Lithuania’s independence,…
Alice Diop, long-term documentary filmmaker
The French filmmaker, of Senegalese origin, signs with “We » a sensitive film about ordinary people on the RER B line. A logical follow-up to his work, focused on reality…