Tag: Saïd Hamich Benlarbi

2025 Marrakech Film Festival – Atlas Workshop: Asmae El Moudir & Laila Marrakchi Win Top Honors

Moroccan filmmakers Asmae El Moudir and Laila Marrakchi shared the €20,000 top prize ex aequo at the eighth edition of Marrakech’s Atlas Workshop, the...

2024 Marrakech Intl. Film Fest: Neo Sora, Murat Fıratoğlu, Damian Kocur & Mo Harawe in Comp

The Marrakech International Film Festival have announced its complete line-up and in the official competition (first and second feature films) film titles we find...

2024 Cannes Film Festival: Jonathan Millet, Saïd Hamich Benlarbi & Emma Benestan Load Up Critics’ Week

Last year the Critics' Week section introduced us to first and second features from the likes of Vladimir Perišić, Iris Kaltenbäck, Amanda Nell Eu,...

Interview: Kamal Lazraq – Les meutes (Hounds)

Seeping with film noir elements, but working with a naturalism and with a moody underworld thriller genre with a certain dose of spirituality and...

2023 Marrakech Intl. Film Festival: Youssef Chebbi, Khadar Ayderus Ahmed, Erige Sehiri Projects in Atlas Workshops

The Marrakech International Film Festival folks have revealed 25 projects chosen for the sixth edition of its industry-oriented Atlas Workshops, designed to support up-and-coming...

Melancholy in Marseille: Mouglalis & Grégoire Colin Join Saïd Hamich Benlarbi’s “La mer au loin”

After landing in Cannes with outstanding French-Moroccan cinema items in the Un Certain Regard selected Kamal Lazraq's Hounds (read review) and Directors' Fortnight selected...

Interview: Faouzi Bensaïdi – Déserts

The very first image we find in Déserts informs the viewer that we need directions and that its the elements that have a stronger...

Les meutes (Hounds) | 2023 Cannes Film Festival Review

Wash Away Your Sins: The Apple Falls a Bit Further Out From the Tree in Lazraq’s Stunning Debut Father and son learn the power of...

What’s in Store for 2024?: Noémie Merlant, Leyla Bouzid & Marjane Satrapi Receive CNC Coin

A dozen 12 projects have been selected as part of the second 2023 session of the CNC’s advance on receipts committee and floating at...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #182. Kamal Lazraq’s Les meutes

Les meutes He made quite the impression with his first pair of shorts with the Cannes’ Cinéfondation competition winner in '11 and a Clermont-Ferrand’s international...

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2026 César Awards: Carine Tardieu’s ‘The Ties That Binds Us’ Lands Best Film

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2026 Berlin International Film Festival – Checklist of Our Coverage

IONCINEMA.com’s Chief Film Critic Nicholas Bell reviewed the entire...