Ahmed El Maanouni

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Ahmed El Maanouni
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Ahmed El Maanouni by Karim Ramzi in 2008
Born
Ahmed El Maanouni

25 November 1944
Casablanca, Morocco
NationalityMoroccan
Occupation(s)Film director, producer, actor, screenwriter, cinematographer
Known for Trances
Alyam, Alyam
Les Coeurs brûlés
AwardsWinner 1st Film Award at Carthage Film Festival

Ahmed El Maanouni (born in 1944) is a Moroccan screenwriter, film director, cinematographer, actor and producer. His films include Alyam Alyam (1978), [1] the first Moroccan film to be selected in Cannes Film Festival and winner of the Grand Prize at the Mannheim Film Festival. [2] He caught international attention when his film Trances was honored and presented by Martin Scorsese at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival to inaugurate the World Cinema Foundation. [3] His film Les Coeurs brûlés (2007) won the Grand Prize at the National Film Festival and was awarded many international prizes. [4] His documentary films consistently interrogate colonial history and its impact on Moroccan memory. He directs study groups and educational programs in Morocco and throughout the world. In 2007, he was honored with the title of Officier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France. [5]

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Filmography

Film

YearTitleCredited asNotes
Director Screenwriter Producer Cinematographer
1978 Alyam, Alyam YesYesYesYes
1978A Breach in the WallNoNoNoYesdirected by Jillali Ferhati
1981 Trances YesYesNoYesDocumentary film
1982 Queen Lear NoNoNoYesdirected by Mokhtar Chorfi
1982 Illusions NoNoNoYesdirected by Julie Dash
1984 Les yeux du golfe YesYesNoNoDocumentary short film
1993Moroccan Goumiers YesYesNoNo
2006La Fiction du Protectorat: Maroc-France, une Histoire Commune Part 1YesYesYesNoDocumentary film
2007 Les coeurs brûlés YesYesYesNo
2016 Julie-Aicha YesYesNoNo

Actor

Awards

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