Casablanca is the largest city in Morocco and the country's economic and business centre. Located on the Atlantic coast of the Chaouia plain in the central-western part of Morocco, the city has a population of about 3.71 million in the urban area, and over 4.27 million in Greater Casablanca, making it the most populous city in the Maghreb region, and the eighth-largest in the Arab world.
Nabil Ayouch is a Franco-Moroccan television and film director, producer, and writer. His films have screened at international film festivals including the Cannes Film Festival and Montreal World Film Festival.
Mohamed Zafzaf was a Moroccan Arabic-language novelist and poet. He played a pivotal role in the development of Moroccan literature in the second half of the 20th century and, due to his contributions, came to be known by such titles as "the godfather of Moroccan literature", "the Moroccan Tolstoy", "the Moroccan Dostoyevsky" and as "our great author" among his Moroccan peers.
The history of the city of Casablanca in Morocco has been one of many political and cultural changes. At different times it has been governed by Berber, Roman, Arab, Portuguese, Spanish, French, British, and Moroccan regimes. It has had an important position in the region as a port city, making it valuable to a series of conquerors during its early history.
Cinema of Morocco refers to the film industry of Morocco. Aside from Arabic-language films, Moroccan cinema also produces Tamazight-language films. The first film in Morocco was shot by Louis Lumière in 1897. The first three Moroccan feature films were funded between 1968-1969. Most researchers and critics agree that the history of Moroccan cinema started with Hamid Bénani's Wechma (1970), which is recognised as the first cult movie in Moroccan film history, and received critical acclaim on an international scale. Until then films produced in the country were Moroccanised versions of Egyptian melodramas. Other influential Moroccan films include A Thousand and One Hands, which was the first feature length fiction film of the 1970s.
Abdelaziz El Idrissi Bouderbala is a Moroccan former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. In 2006, he was selected by CAF as one of the best 200 African football players of the last 50 years.
Moroccan rap music is a Moroccan musical style related to rap and hip hop culture.
Laouni Mouhid, commonly known by his stage name La Fouine, with additional aliases such as Fouiny Babe or just Fouiny, is a French rapper and singer. He is the owner of Banlieue Sale and the clothing line "Street Swagg".
Tayeb Saddiki was a Moroccan theatre director and one of the most iconic and prominent Arab artists, and is considered among the foremost Arab dramatists of the twentieth century. Trained in classical Western theater, Saddiki also embraced traditional Moroccan theatrical styles, fusing the two into a path-breaking combination of Western and traditional Moroccan theater. Known for staging spectacles played to large crowds in big arenas, Saddiki developed a style of festive theater that became a popular in the Arab world.
Adam is a 2019 Moroccan drama film directed by Maryam Touzani. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. It was selected as the Moroccan entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.
Night Walk is an American crime thriller drama film written and directed by Aziz Tazi and starring Sean Stone, Mickey Rourke, Sarah Alami, French rapper La Fouine and Eric Roberts. The film is a modern-day Romeo and Juliet between the West and the Middle East that turns into a crime drama. In the film, a hero's quest for justice evolves into a spiritual journey led by Muslim inmates, from the moderate convert to terror-linked fundamentalists. Night Walk was shot between Los Angeles and five cities in Morocco. It premiered at the 2019 Moscow International Film Festival. In 2021, Night Walk was acquired by Lionsgate, making it the first Moroccan film in history to get Hollywood distribution.
Aziz Dadas is a Moroccan actor. He is known for starring alongside comedian Saïd Naciri, working with him in a number of acts such as The Rebbe, Al-Aouni, Playing with Wolves, The Hook, and for appearing in the successful Moroccan series Hour in Hell which aired on Al Aoula Channel. However, when he participated in the Moroccan comedy film The Way to Kabul, he was aired. He also appeared on the series Hdidan in Gueliz in 2017.
Said Khallaf is a Moroccan screenwriter and director. He is best known for his 2016 film A Mile in My Shoes.
Naima Lamcharki was a Moroccan actress.
Volubilis is a French-Moroccan film directed by Faouzi Bensaïdi, released in 2017. It was screened at a number of international film festivals.
Lalla Hoby is a 1996 Moroccan comedy film directed by Mohamed Abderrahman Tazi. It is the sequel to In Search of My Wife's Husband.
SofiaAlaoui is a French-Moroccan director and screenwriter. She is best known for her short film Qu'importe si les bêtes meurent.
Selma Bargach is a Moroccan filmmaker.
ZERO is a Moroccan film written and directed by Nour-Eddine Lakhmari and produced by Timlif Productions, released on December 19, 2012, in Morocco. The film was a box office success in Morocco. It was screened at a number of international film festivals, and took away the Grand Prize at the Tangier National Film Festival, among other prizes.
Soufiane El Khalidy is a Moroccan actor, filmmaker, and writer. Born in Agadir, Morocco, he has acted in films and television series such as Ghosts of Beirut (2023), NCIS: Los Angeles (2017), Shockwave: Countdown to Disaster (2017), and the upcoming Netflix biopic Mary. He also played the role of Ridwan in the film Riley Parra (2017) and its sequel Riley Parra: Better Angels (2019).
