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28 January 2023

Maryam Touzani: Le Bleu du Caftan | The Blue Caftan - Official Selection - FESPACO 2023

Maryam Touzani
Le Bleu du Caftan | The Blue Caftan

Morocco - 2022 - 124min - Fiction 


“Unfortunately, in Morocco, homosexuality is punishable through article 489 of the penal code. The penalty can range from 6 months to 3 years in prison. Homosexuality is not only a taboo but it is considered a crime! This law is traumatic and I think we must rise up so that it will be abolished, in Morocco and in other countries, say things out loud and not be afraid.”


“Malheureusement, au Maroc, l’homosexualité est punie par l’article 489 du code pénal. La peine peut aller de 6 mois à 3 ans de prison. L’homosexualité est non seulement un tabou mais elle est considérée comme un crime ! Cette loi est affligeante et je pense qu’il faut s’insurger pour qu’elle soit abolie, au Maroc et dans d’autres pays, dire les choses et ne pas avoir peur.” (Maryam Touzani, Press Kit)



Synopsis

Halim and Mina, who have been married for a long time, run a traditional caftan shop in the medina of Salé, Morocco. The couple has always lived with Halim's secret, his homosexuality. However, Mina's illness and the arrival of a young apprentice will upset this balance. United in their love, each will help the other to face their fears.


Halim est marié depuis longtemps à Mina, avec qui il tient un magasin traditionnel de caftans dans la médina de Salé, au Maroc. Le couple vit depuis toujours avec le secret d’Halim, son homosexualité qu’il a appris à taire. La maladie de Mina et l’arrivée d’un jeune apprenti vont bouleverser cet équilibre. Unis dans leur amour, chacun va aider l’autre à affronter ses peurs.



Maryam Touzani


Born in Tangier, Maryam Touzani spent her childhood there before pursuing university studies in journalism in London. Passionate about writing, she returned to Morocco after her studies and worked there as a journalist, specializing in Maghreb cinema. She quickly felt the need to express herself through her own films.


Née à Tanger, Maryam Touzani passe son enfance dans sa ville natale avant de poursuivre des études universitaires en journalisme à Londres. Passionnée d'écriture, elle retourne au Maroc après ses études et y travaille comme journaliste, se spécialisant dans le cinéma du Maghreb. Rapidement, elle ressent la nécessité de s'exprimer à travers ses propres films.

25 February 2020

Festival Films Femmes Afrique 2020 - Maryam Touzani : Adam

Maryam Touzani
Adam
Morocco - 2020 - 98 min - Fiction


Synopsis

Dans la Médina de Casablanca, Abla, veuve et mère d'une fillette de 8 ans, tient un magasin de pâtisseries marocaines. Quand Samia, une jeune femme enceinte frappe à sa porte, Abla est loin d'imaginer que sa vie changera à jamais. Une rencontre fortuite du destin, deux femmes en fuite, et un chemin vers l'essentiel.

In the Medina of Casablanca, Abla, a widow and mother of an 8-year-old girl, runs a Moroccan pastry shop. When Samia, a young pregnant woman, knocks on her door, Abla is far from imagining that her life will change forever. A chance meeting of fate, two women in flight, and a path to the essential.

Biographie | Biography

Maryam Touzani est née en 1980 à Tanger où elle passe sa jeunesse. Elle est dans un premier temps journaliste, spécialisée dans le cinéma, après des études à Londres. Puis elle devient scénariste et réalisatrice de courts-métrages et de documentaires. En 2011, son court-métrage Quand ils dorment, est sa première réalisation cinématographique. En 2014, elle filme un documentaire, Sous Ma Vieille Peau / Much Loved, consacré à la prostitution au Maroc. Ce documentaire donne lieu au film Much Loved, sorti en 2015 et réalisé par Nabil Ayouch, pour lequel Touzani participe au scénario.

En 2019, elle réalise son premier long-métrage Adam. Ce dernier est sélectionné pour le festival de Cannes, dans la section Un certain regard, en compétition pour la Queer Palm, et au 12e festival du film francophone d'Angoulême.

Maryam Touzani was born in 1980 in Tangier where she spent her youth. She was initially a journalist, specializing in cinema, after studying in London. Then she became a screenwriter and director of short films and documentaries. In 2011, her short film Quand ils dorment, is her first cinematic endeavor. In 2014, she made the documentary, Sous Ma Vieille Peau / Much Loved, focusing on prostitution in Morocco. This documentary gave rise to the film Much Loved, released in 2015 and directed by Nabil Ayouch, for which Maryam Touzani participated in developing the script.

In 2019, she directed her first feature film Adam, which was selected at the Cannes festival in the Un Certain Regard section; it was in competition for the Queer Palm, and was presented at the 12th edition of the Angoulême francophone film festival.


30 January 2020

Cascade Festival of African Films 2020: "Adam" by Maryam Touzani (Morocco)

Cascade Festival of African Films 2020 Adam by Maryam Touzani
(Morocco) 2019, 98 min
Featuring Women Filmmakers Week

Synopsis
In the Medina of Casablanca, Alba, widow and mother of eight-year old Warda runs a modest local bakery from her home. When Samia, young, homeless, unmarried and pregnant, knocks on their door, Abla makes a life-changing decision. In this feature directorial debut, Maryam Touzani has created a moving portrait of familial love and support between women. (Source: adapted from Cascade Festival of African Films)

Bio
Maryam Touzani born in Morocco, grew up in Tangier and did her university studies in London. Passionate about writing, she returned to Morocco after her studies and worked as a journalist, specializing in cinema. She very quickly felt the need to express herself through her own films. In 2011, she directed her first cinematic work, the short film Quand ils dorment. The documentary Sous Ma Vieille Peau, directed in 2014 relates the lives of four elder Moroccan prostitutes: Some still practice, occasionally, bartering their worn out bodies for a mere pittance. Their pasts are as different as their lives and their personalities. But they all share a burning desire for freedom, in the midst of the conservative Muslim environment in which they live. In 2015 she directed her second short film, Aya va à la plage which focuses on the theme of the exploitation of young children as servants. In 2019, her first feature film Adam was selected for the Cannes festival, in the Un Certain Regard section. (Source: adapted from Africine.org)

30th Annual Cascade Festival of African Films 2020: Featuring Women Filmmakers Week

30th Annual Cascade Festival of African Films

In Celebration of Black History Month
At Portland Community College
31 January to 29 February 2020

The Cascade Festival of African Films is held in Portland, Oregon USA. The closing week of the festival features Women Filmmakers Week, which includes retrospectives, tributes and recently released short and feature films:

The Cascade Festival of African Films shows us Africa through the eyes of Africans, rather than a vision of Africa packaged for Western viewers. The films celebrate Africa’s achievements, expose its failures, and reveal possibilities for a hopeful future. Although the films cannot represent an entire continent, we hope to encourage American viewers to become interested in and study African cultures. Text and image source: Cascade Festival of African Films

The 2020 lineup of films for Women Filmmakers Week 27-29 February 

Papicha by Mounia Meddour (Algeria) 2019, 106 min (Women Filmmakers Week)
Life is Fare by Sephora Woldu (Eritrea, USA) 2018, 61 min
Freedom Fields by Naziha Arebi (Libya), 2018, 97 min
Woven by Salome Mulugeta and Nagwa Ibrahim (Ethiopia USA) 2016

Also women-directed films in the 30th Cascade Film Festival selection:
Adam by Maryam Touzani (Morocco) 2019, 98 min
The Shadow of Cairo by Tara Shehata (Egypt) 2018, 15 min (Family Fest Matinee) 
Sela by Rafieka Davis (South Africa) 2019, 25 min (Family Fest Matinee)

Theatre
How to Have Fun in a Civil War (Live Theater Performance)
A one-woman show by Somali multimedia artist Ifrah Mansour, USA 2018, 55 min

2020 Films - 01-29 February (Festival website link to films) 
  • Adam by Maryam Touzani (Morocco) 2019, 98 min
  • Alyam, Alyam/Oh The Days by Ahmed El Maanouni (Morocco) 1978, 98 min
  • (African Film Heritage Series)
  • Boxing Libreville by Amedée Pacôme Nkoulou (Gabon) 2018, 54 min (Documentary Series)
  • Everything Must Fall by Rehad Desai (South Africa) 2018, 85 min (Documentary Series)
  • Family Fest Matinee with The Shadow of Cairo by Tara Shehata and Sela by Rafieka Davis 
  • Fatwa by Mahmoud Ben Mahmoud (Tunisia) 2018, 102 min
  • Freedom Fields by Naziha Arebi (Libya), 2018, 97 min
  • (Women Filmmakers Week)
  • Gao, Resistance of a People by Kassim Sanogo (Mali) 2018, 54 min (Documentary Series)
  • How to Have Fun in a Civil War, a one-woman show by Ifrah Monsour (Somalia, USA) 2018, 55 min (Live Theatre Performance)
  • Ishaba by Yuhi Amuli (Rwanda) 2015, 4 min (Short film)
  • La femme au couteau/The Woman with the Knife by Timité Bassori (Côte d'Ivoire) 1969, 80 min (African Film Heritage Series)
  • Life is Fare by Sephora Woldu (Eritrea, USA), 2018, 61 min (Women Filmmakers Week)
  • Mabata Bata by Sol de Carvalho (Mozambique) 2018, 74 min
  • Munda Moto/The Child of Another by Jean-Pierre Dikongué-Pipa (Cameroon) 1975, 90 min (African Film Heritage Series)
  • Nigerian Prince by Faraday Okoro (Nigeria, USA) 2018, 104 min
  • Papicha by Mounia Meddour (Algeria) 2019, 106 min (Women Filmmakers Week)
  • Photocopy by Tamer Ashry (Egypt) 2017, 90 min
  • Soleil O by Med Hondo (Mauritania, France) 1970, 105 min (African Film Heritage Series)
  • Spotlight on Senegal: Short Film Series
  • Talk about Trees by Suhaib Gasmelbari (Sudan) 2019, 90 min
  • The Burial of Kojo by Blitz Bazawule (Ghana) 2018, 80 min
  • The Mercy of the Jungle by Joël Karekezi (Rwanda) 2018, 91 min
  • Woven by Salome Mulugeta and Nagwa Ibrahim (Ethiopia USA) 2016 (Women Filmmakers Week)
  • Zombies by Baloji (Democratic Republic of the Congo) 2019, 13 min (Short)



04 November 2019

PALMARES | AWARDS : JCC 2019 - Les journées cinématographiques de Carthage | Carthage Film Festival


PALMARES | AWARDS
Les journées cinématographiques de Carthage
Carthage Film Festival


LONG METRAGE | FEATURE FICTION

Tanit d'or | Golden Tanit

Tanit d'argent | Silver Tanit

Tanit de bronze | Bronze Tanit
Scales. Shahad Ameen Arabie Saoudite | Saudia Arabia (2019)

Meilleur scénario | Best Scenario
You will die at twenty. Amjad Abu Alala - Soudan | Sudan (2019)

Meilleure comedien | Best male performance : 
Abou Leila. Amin Sidi-Boumediene - Algérie | Algeria (2019)

Meilleure comedienne | Best female performance : Hend Sabri
Noura rêve. Hinde Boujemaa - Tunisie | Tunisia (2019)

Meilleure musique | Best Music
Atlantique. Mati Diop - Sénégal (2019)

Meilleure image | Best Cinematography
Adam. Mariam Touzani - Maroc | Morocco (2019)

Meilleur montage | Best Editing
Adam. Mariam Touzani - Maroc | Morocco (2019)


SHORT FICTION FILMS | COURTS MÉTRAGES

Tanit d'or | Golden Tanit
True Story. Amine Lakhnech - Tunisia | Tunisie (2019)

Tanit d'argent | Silver Tanit
Charter. Sabry Bouzid - Tunisia | Tunisie (2019)

Tanit de bronze | Bronze Tanit
Mthunzi. Tebogo Malebogo - South Africa | Afrique du Sud (2019)


FEATURE DOCUMENTARIES | LONGS MÉTRAGES DOCUMENTAIRES 

Tanit d'or | Golden Tanit
Talking about trees. Suhaib Gasmelbari - Soudan | Sudan (2019)

Tanit d'argent | Silver Tanit
For Sama. Waad Al-Kateab - Syrie | Syria (2019)

Tanit de bronze | Bronze Tanit

Mention speciále | Special mention
Pas d’or pour Kalsaka. K Michel Zongo - Burkina Faso (2019)


SHORT DOCUMENTARIES | DOCUMENTAIRES COURTS MÉTRAGES 

Tanit d'or | Golden Tanit
All come from dust. Younes Ben Slimane – Tunisia | Tunisie (2018)

Tanit d'argent | Silver Tanit
Pacific. Angie Obeid - Lebanon | Liban (2019)

Tanit de bronze | Bronze Tanit


PRIX PREMIÈRE OEUVRE | FIRST FILM AWARD

Prix | Award TV5 Monde
You will die at twenty. Amjad Abu Alala - Soudan | Sudan (2019)

Taher Cheriaa Award

Mention speciále du Jury | Special mention Jury
Un fils. Mehdi M. Barsaoui - Tunisie | Tunisia (2019)

Prix du public | Audience Award
Entre deux frères. Joud Jawdat Said - Syrie | Syria (2019)


LAUREATS PRIX PARALLÈLE | PARALLEL SECTION AWARDS

UGTT : Prix du premier assistant à la réalisation | First Assistant Director Award
à/to Sawssen Jemni. Noura rêve de/by Hinde Boujemaa - Tunisie | Tunisia (2019)

FACC : Prix de la FACC | FACC Award

FIPSCI : Prix du FIPSCI | FIPSCI Award
You will die at twenty. Amjad Abu Alala - Soudan | Sudan (2019)

Le prix | Award Cinephilia
Chebba. Yasmine BenAbdallah. Maroc | Morocco (2019)


LES PRIX | AWARDS : CARTHAGE CINÉ-PROMESSE 2019

Prix carthage ciné-promesse: Le dernier voyage. Latefa Ahrrare - Maroc | Morocco

Prix ciné-promesse : Prix Hakka distribution Le dernier voyage. Latefa Ahrrare - Maroc | Morocco

Prix ciné-promesse : Mention Spéciale | Special mention
TF2011. Nour El Hayet Ben Abdallah - Tunisie - Maroc 


21 May 2019

Cannes 2019: Maryam Touzani's "Adam" (Morocco)

Cannes 2019: Maryam Touzani's Adam (Morocco)

Adam, the first feature film by Moroccan director, Maryam Touzani, in competition in the category "Un certain regard" at the 72nd Festival de Cannes, competing for the "Caméra d'or".

Excerpts from an interview with Maryam Touzani by Kaoutar Laili. HuffPost Maroc. Translation from French. Images: Festival de Cannes.

Adam is the story of a somewhat fortuitous encounter between two women in the medina of Casablanca. The kind of unexpected encounter, as destiny knows so well and that can change the course of a life. Samia is a single, pregnant mother who comes from the countryside to give her child up for adoption. She is welcomed in the home of a young widow, Abla, struggling to make ends meet with her 8-year-old daughter, having lost the taste of life since the death of her husband. Together, the two women make a genuine inner journey of rebuilding, by moving towards each other.

 ...I wanted to share a vision of society through these characters. Adam is an intimist film, centered on the inner experiences of two women. Here the action is not very important, the main focus is the inner journey of the two women and  little girl. My only desire was to tell this film as sincerely as possible and be able to communicate my vision.


[The title of the film] Adam, like the first man, the man who must also sometimes ask questions and return to the origin. For me, it is also a way to recall who ultimately carries life: the woman. Every new life, whether male or female, is carried by a woman. It is thus a reflection that examines the place of the man and that of the woman in our society. It is essential to ask oneself these questions and there are many ways to ask them.

13 May 2019

Cannes 2019 : African Women at Cannes | La présence africaine au féminin

Cannes 2019 :
African Women at Cannes
La présence africaine au féminin


Jury Longs-metrages | Features
Maïmouna N’Diaye: Franco-guinéenne actrice et réalisatrice | French-Guinean actress and filmmaker
https://www.festival-cannes.com/fr/festival/artiste/maimouna-n-diaye

Jury Caméra d'Or
Alice Diop: Franco-sénégalaise réalisatrice |
Franco-Senegalese filmmaker
https://www.festival-cannes.com/fr/festival/artiste/alice-diop

Semaine de la critique
Djia Mambu: Belgo-congolaise journaliste et critic du cinéma | Belgian-Congolese journalist at film critic https://www.semainedelacritique.com/fr/jury


SELECTION OFFICIELLE | OFFICIAL SELECTION

Competition Longs-métrages | Features
Mati Diop (France|Senegal) Atlantique, 2019. 104 min.
https://www.festival-cannes.com/fr/festival/films/atlantique

Un certain regard
Mounia Meddour (Algérie|Algeria) Papicha, 2019. 106 min.
https://www.festival-cannes.com/fr/festival/films/papicha

Monia Chokri (Canada-Tunisia) La Femme de mon frère, 2019. 117 min
https://www.festival-cannes.com/fr/festival/films/la-femme-de-mon-frere 

Maryam Touzani (Maroc|Morocco) Adam, 2019. 98 min.
https://www.festival-cannes.com/fr/festival/films/adam-1


SEMAINE DE LA CRITIQUE

Competition - Shorts | Courts métrages 
Nada Riyadh (Egypte) Fakh, 2019. 20 min.
https://www.semainedelacritique.com/fr/edition/2019/film/fakh

Comité de séléction | Selection Committee :
Clémentine Dramani-Issifou : Franco-Beninoise chercheuse et curatrice indépendante de films | French-Beninese researcher and independent film curator ) https://www.semainedelacritique.com/fr/comite-de-selection

Séance Spéciale - Longs métrages | Features
Hafsia Herzi (Tunisia-Algeria-France) Tu mérites un amour (You Deserve a Lover), 2019. 102 min.
https://www.semainedelacritique.com/fr/edition/2019/film/tu-merites-un-amour


LES CINEMAS DU MONDE: LA FABRIQUE

Kantarama Gahigiri is a Rwandan-Swiss filmmaker. Her first feature film Tapis Rouge has received awards worldwide, including TV5Monde Best Picture, followed by a theatrical release in France in May 2017. She is now developing Tanzanite, an Afrofuturistic thriller that takes place in colorful Nairobi, and she participated in Realness, an African screenwriters’ residency, with the film.


QUINZAINE DES REALISATEURS | DIRECTOR'S FORTNIGHT

Comité de séléction | Selection Committee :
Claire Diao : Franco-Burkinabé journaliste et critic du cinéma | French-Burkinabé journalist and film critic

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IEFTA in partnership with the Marché du Film 
IEFTA en partenariat avec le Marché du film
Marwa Zein, Sudanese director-producer, is among the seven young filmmakers attending the festival | La cinéaste-productrice soudanaise fait partie des sept jeunes cinéastes assistants au festival.

IEFTA (International Emerging Film Talent Association) once again partners with the renowned Marché du Film at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival to offer seven young filmmakers the opportunity to attend the festival, participate in career-changing Industry Workshops, develop their projects, build their networks and raise their ambitions.

L’IEFTA (International Emerging Film Talent Association) s'associe à nouveau au célèbre Marché du Film lors du 72ème Festival de Cannes pour offrir à sept jeunes réalisateurs la possibilité de assister au festival, de participer à des ateliers de réorientation professionnel, de développer leurs projets, de  construire leurs réseaux et réaliser leurs ambitions.
https://www.iefta.org/seven-filmmakers-to-attend-cannes-2019/

LINKS FROM THE AFRICAN WOMEN IN CINEMA BLOG:

Cannes 2019: Mati Diop receives/reçoit le Grand Prix
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2019/05/cannes-2019-mati-diop-receivesrecoit-le.html

Cannes 2019: Maïmouna N'Diaye, member of the jury | membre du jury: interview/entretien by/par Falila Gbadamassi (AfriqueFrance Télévisions)
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2019/05/cannes-2019-maimouna-ndiaye-member-of.html

Mati Diop: "It was very important for me to dedicate a film to this ghost generation" | "C'était très important pour moi de dédier un film à cette génération fantôme". Interview/Entretien by/par Falila Gbadamassi (Africine, Cannes 2019)
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2019/05/mati-diop-it-was-very-important-for-me.html

"Papicha: Mounia Meddour in resistance mode" | "Papicha : Mounia Meddour en mode résistance" analysis/analyse by/par Falila Gbadamassi (Africine)
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2019/05/papicha-mounia-meddour-in-resistance.html

Djia Mambu, journalist and film critic | journaliste et critique de cinéma (Cannes 2019)
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2019/05/djia-mambu-journalist-and-film-critic.html

Cannes 2019: Maryam Touzani's "Adam" (Morocco)
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2019/05/cannes-2019-maryam-touzanis-adam-morocco.html

Mati Diop’s "Atlantique" – In the foam of the "Atlantic” | Dans l'écume de l' "Atlantique" analysis/analyse by/par Falila Gbadamassi (Africine)
https://africanwomenincinema.blogspot.com/2019/05/mati-diops-atlantique-in-foam-of.html

Mati Diop : Atlantique (Cannes 2019)

03 February 2013

FESPACO 2013 - Maryam Touzani : Quand ils dorment | When They’re Sleeping


Fespaco 2013 - Short fiction | Fiction court métrage 

Quand ils dorment | When They’re Sleeping (2011)
Maryam Touzani (Maroc/Morocco)

The filmmaker | La réalisatrice

[English]
Born in Tangiers, Morocco, Maryam Touzani did her university studies in London. Upon her return, she worked as a journalist specialising in cinema. The short film, Quand ils dorment, is her first experience in fiction filmmaking.

[Français]
Née à Tanger, au Maroc, Maryam Touzani fait des études universitaire à Londres. De retour au pays, elle travaille comme journaliste, se spécialisant dans le cinéma. Ce court-métrage est sa première expérience dans le film de fiction.

Synopsis

[English]
Amina, a young widow and mother of three, takes care of her little family with the assistance of her father, who has a very special relationship with her youngest daughter Sara. Upon his sudden death, the little girl, sensitive and mischievous, will not let anyone come between her and her grandfather.

[Français]
Amina, jeune veuve et mère de trois enfants, s’occupe de sa petite famille, avec l’aide précieuse de son père qui a une relation très spéciale avec la dernière, Sara. Lorsqu’il meurt subitement, la petite fille, sensible et espiègle, ne laissera rien ni personne s’interposer entre elle et son grand-père.

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