Arab cinema or Arabic cinema refers to the film industry of the Arab world which depends for most of its production on the Egyptian cinema.
The Winds of the Aures is a 1967 Algerian war film directed by Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina. It was entered into the 1967 Cannes Film Festival where it won the award for Best First Work. It was also entered into the 5th Moscow International Film Festival.
Yamina Bachir was an Algerian film director and screenwriter. Her film Rachida was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. According to Roy Armes, Rachida is 'the first 35mm feature directed by an Algerian woman in Algeria'. The film was primarily financed by French and European funding companies. It was popular in Algeria and was distributed internationally in France.
Hadj Smaine Mohamed Seghir was an Algerian actor, director and thespian who was born in 1932 in Constantine, Algeria, France.
Cheikh Bouamama or Shaykh Bu 'Amamah led a popular resistance against French occupation in Algeria from 1881 to 1908.
Nadia Labidi is an Algerian film producer, film director, and politician. She was Minister of Culture from 5 May 2014 to May 2015. Her filmmaking is "French based and French funded". Her first documentary film was Fatima Amaria in 1993 and her first feature film was The Other side of the Mirror in 2007.
The cinema of Gabon has had an uneven history. Though President Omar Bongo and his wife, Josephine Bongo, encouraged filmmaking in the 1970s, there was a 20-year hiatus until filmmaking started to grow again in the new millennium.
Bassek Ba Kobhio is a Cameroonian filmmaker, writer and founder of the Ecrans Noirs film festival in Yaounde, Cameroon. He is also the Director of the Higher Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Professionals of Central Africa (ISCAC) in Yaounde, the first-ever tertiary training institution for cinematography in the Central Africa sub-region.
Lakhdar Bouregaa was an Algerian independentist militant. He was a Commander of the National Liberation Army, serving from 1956 to 1962. He was opposed to the Oujda Group following a clash in the summer of 1962. He was a co-founder of the Socialist Forces Front in 1963, and was a key figure during the 2019–20 Algerian protests.
Paris and Love is a 1972 romantic drama starring Salah Zulfikar, Sabah, Yousuf Shaaban, and directed by Mohamed Salman.
Mohamed Abdelkrim Derkaoui is a Moroccan director and producer.
The Barber of the Poor Quarter is a 1982 Moroccan film directed by Mohamed Reggab and adapted from a play of the same title by Youssef Fadel. It was the director's sole feature film, and became a Moroccan cult classic. It was screened at the first edition of the National Film Festival in Rabat, where it received as a special mention and the 10th edition of the National Film Festival as part of a series on Moroccan classics. Internationally, the film was screened at Three Continents Festival in 1983, and the Berlin International Film Festival in 1982. The debts incurred for the production of his sole feature film led to Reggab being imprisoned.
Bamou is a 1983 Moroccan film directed by Driss Mrini.
Le Gouverneur General de l'ile Chakerbakerben is a 1980 Moroccan film directed by Nabyl Lahlou.
The Years of Exile is a 2002 film directed by Nabyl Lahlou. Adapted from the novel Une enquête au pays by Driss Chraîbi, this film shows the resistance of Berber villagers in the High Atlas against the representatives of the Moroccan administration in the 1960s.
Bachir Skiredj was a Moroccan actor, filmmaker, comedian, and screenwriter. A popular entertainer for decades, he was best known for his role in Mohamed Abderrahman Tazi's À la recherche du mari de ma femme, a box office success.
Mohamed Zineddaine is a Moroccan-Italian journalist, photographer, filmmaker, screenwriter and producer.
