This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
Hibapress-Rabat
One consecration, another, for Moroccan cinema and for his boss of the moment, Abdelaziz El Bouzdaini. For the second consecutive year, the name of the acting director of the Moroccan cinematographic center (CCM) appears in the very select list of the most influential personalities of the seventh art in the Arab region, established by the Arab Cinema Center on the occasion of the Cannes Festival. An event in which Mr. El Bouzdaini, who goes there, who has been there at each edition since his appointment at the head of the CCM, also takes part in order to allow Moroccan films to gain international dissemination. By achieving largely the desired objective, since it was because of this exemplary promotion work that it was chosen by the center of Arab cinema.
In this regard, Morocco has for the first time in its history, to this 2025 edition of Cannes, an official stand within the film market planned as part of the festival, and where professionals have the possibility of selling and buying cinematographic productions as well as distributing them. According to our information, Moroccan films have aroused immense interest on the spot and could incessantly lead to the signing of contracts allowing the Kingdom to strengthen its cultural aura on a global scale. In this sense, the CCM, in the person of its director in particular, plays a leading role in supporting Moroccan creators at this level. “Mr. El Bouzdaini is there, in the oven and in the mill, in chief ambassador of Moroccan cinema. He directly supervises the B2B meetings which are organized, as in fact, each of his participations in these great messes, “says a source present on site.
Also, an institutional pavilion has also been planned, available to all those who, among the participants in the Cannes Film Festival, seek to quite simply know about the national cinema and the different opportunities it presents, if not to discover it. For Moroccan professionals, it constitutes the appropriate space to fill their address notebooks and, possibly, build global partnerships. And that does not concern, as one might think, the only film production, but the entire sector, in particular the reception of international filming, one of the major specialties for several decades of Morocco. Thus, the CCM aims to make cinema, and this in accordance with the very high royal orientations given to it, a real economic locomotive, likely to mobilize an entire ecosystem ranging from technicians to service providers, including service companies and young emerging talents. A model which, little by little, is in the process of winning in particular on a regional scale, where we therefore very closely follow these developments as evidenced by the attention paid by the Arab center of Moroccan cinema to Mr. El Bouzdaini and, through him, at the work of the institution of the CCM.
