La 19ème édition du Festival de Film Européen in marrakech marrakech marrakech Travel Marrakech

Each year, since 1991, the European Film weeks attract an audience curious to see movies that are never broadcast in Moroccan cinemas. Last year, the attendance reached the record figure of 17,000 spectators, thus proving the interest of the public for a more demanding and less standardized cinema.

The 2010 selection meets the same usual criteria: show film of copyright European in all its diversity through films of great filmmakers, emerging filmmakers and filmmakers to discover, for the most selected or awards in major international film events. In addition to the ten programmed films, short films from the South of the Mediterranean will be disseminated in the first part of some sessions.

The great European authors are shaped. With the White Ribbon, Michael Haneke book a major work of his filmography, a glossy and incisive time film, shot entirely in black and white light. The jury chaired by one of his fetish actors, Isabelle Huppert, was awarded a palme d'Or well deserved at the last Cannes film festival. Another film of time, Marco Bellochio Vincere is a fresco of large-scale, both poetic and political, which revisits the Mussolini family past a new angle.

Other great authors who are distinguished in most anticipated records this year: Pedro Almodovar and Ken Loach. With broken embraces, Almodovar offers Penelope Cruz one of his best roles and sign a remarkable Declaration of love for the cinema. While Ken Loach is lighter mood with a comedy that highlights the icon of football, Eric Cantona.

After Head on and the other side, the German of Turkish origin Fatih Akin filmmaker comes back with a comedy Soul kitchen (winning the last Venice festival) and confirms that it is one of the best directors Europeans of the younger generation. Finally, discovery side, the Romania continues to surprise with the happiest girl of the world while the France reveals an author of Algerian origin to the singular universe and endearing, Nassim Amaouche, whose film goodbye Gary, won the grand prize of the week of criticism at the last Cannes film festival.

For almost two decades of cultural cooperation, the delegation of the European Union in collaboration with the embassies and institutes of the Member States and in partnership with the Ministry of Communication and the Moroccan Cinema Centre has been able to create with the Moroccan Cinema audiences a rich dialogue of the film exchange between Europe and the South shore of the Mediterranean.