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Organized by the FFICAK Basis in partnership with the Normal Delegation for Jail Administration and Reintegration (DGAPR), this fourth version of the Pageant was marked by the screening of the movie “Annatto” by Moroccan director and screenwriter Fatima Ali Boubekdie , within the presence of an viewers of Moroccan and African personalities from all sides.
In keeping with the organizers, 76 female and male inmates, from varied penitentiary establishments within the Kingdom, took half on this 4th version of the Cultural Pageant of African inmates from Senegal, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea -Bissau, Nigeria, Egypt, Niger, Togo, Benin, Chad, Guinea Conakry and Equatorial Guinea.
“The primary goal behind the group of this occasion inside the native jail of Khouribga is to assist African prisoners within the Kingdom’s penitentiary institutions to combine, by introducing them to sure cultural occasions with an African dimension that are are happening in Morocco”, underlined the director of the native Khouribga jail, Mohamed Moustakim, in a press release to M24, MAP’s steady information channel.
He additional recalled that “this fourth version of the cultural pageant for the good thing about African detainees is a part of the Worldwide African Cinema Pageant which is at present being held in Khouribga.”
For his half, the creative director of the movie “Annatto”, Ameur Cherqui, indicated that “the screening of this function movie on the native jail of Khouribga is a part of the actions held by the movie golf equipment created by sure penitentiary establishments within the Kingdom” , welcoming this initiative which “strengthens and displays Morocco’s attachment to its African roots”.
“This occasion contributes to bringing happiness and pleasure to prisoners and permits them, for a second, to be happy from their prisons, to have a brand new outlook on life and in addition to strengthen the function of the penitentiary establishment within the integration and reintegration of prisoners,” he maintained.
He harassed that the selection of screening the movie “Annatto” on this event was made due to its African dimension, indicating that the function movie tells a narrative that happened between Morocco and the island of Saint Louis in Senegal and that “the African dimension of Morocco is embodied within the occasions of the movie”.
The twenty third version of FICAK, held below the patronage of His Majesty King Mohammed VI from Could 6 to 13, sees the participation of movies from totally different Arab and African international locations.
This nice annual pageant of African cinema celebrates the seventh artwork and pays tribute to African movie productions. It additionally makes it doable to advertise the picture of the Kingdom and spotlight its specificities, its potential when it comes to cinema and its interplay with the cinema of African international locations.
2024-06-05 05:00:07