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A new dynamic which continues its path as also evidenced by the many important film events in the country as the Festival International du Film de Marrakech (MIFF), born eight years ago.

And suddenly, the Moroccan film long boudé, returned with the success and the public, more and more interested in out news on the national screens. An attendance and a love for the Moroccan film and also of course the other international productions to confirm and to consolidate more grace to the MIFF, now one of the great rendez-vous cinema in the agenda of national and international professional film and especially the Moroccan public.

As evidenced, inter alia, the testimony of the filmmaker and American screenwriter Milos Forman of Czech origin, who had stated at the previous edition of the FIFM which he was the President of the jury, that the festival of Marrakech stands out by its openness to all cultures, styles and cinematographic sensitivities.

Before to add that the festival is is said in short time as a major event in the global film agenda very valued by professionals from here and elsewhere.

Renting and insisting on the opening of the festival of Marrakech, this great filmmaker thus confirms the resolution of the Morocco to continue on this path and to make the brewing culture one of the fundamentals of the nation.

Other testimony and not least, expressed at the fourth edition of the MIFF by Egyptian filmmaker disappeared this year, Youssef Chahine, for whom this festival represents a formidable acquired for the Morocco and the Moroccan Cinema in holding by the good Bill and the films fame global filmmakers and actors involved.

Monsters of cinema such as Roman Polanski, Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott or even Jean-Jacques Annaud (...), and the list is not exhaustive and continues still since the first edition in 2001, a test run which proved very quickly in a few years straight and very promising.

In this success, Marrakech, its people and its light that delight beyond borders, are many. A city for decades already, growing to conquer world renowned filmmakers who come to plant their camera in his magic sets.

And the success continued with this eighth edition held as always under the High Patronage of SM King Mohammed VI. An edition which promises in the light of the proper invoice and the diversity of its programming.

Not derogate from the tradition that is beautiful to the great names of world cinema, the organizers of this planned Edition of 14 to 22 November chose filmmaker Quad, American winner of the prestigious Oscar, Barry Levinson, to preside over the jury.

A jury which includes Sebastian Koch (German actor), Joaquim de Almeida (Portuguese actor), Hugh Hudson (Director, writer and French producer), Caterina Murino (Italian actress), Agusti Villaronga (Director and scriptwriter Spanish), Natacha Regnier (Belgian actress), Ghita El Khayat (Moroccan psychologist) and Mariama Barry (writer and jurist Guinean-Senegalese).

In addition to the films in the running and general public projections, this edition will be marked by other moments with menu a tribute to international cinema, in this case, "40 years of British cinema", "the Russia of Andrei Konchalovsky", "50 years of Moroccan Cinema", and "the best of Youssef Chahine". "" ""

Another time, a first in the festivals of cinema in Africa and the Arab world, the initiative of organizers to associate the public visually impaired and not seeing in this holiday film and, by the exhibition of films "auditory description" technique. "

A highly commendable initiative which, in addition to and especially attractive programming, will certainly help further consolidate the proximity of the festival, now must stamp.