Lahcen Zinoun appointed director of the Khouribga African Film Festival



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The Khouribga African Film Festival will return in December for a 21st edition of the Festival, 41 years after its creation, and with a new director, Lahcen Zinoun.

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L to 21 e edition of the Festival of African Cinema Khouribga (FCAK) will be held from 15 to 22 December, announced on July 4, the Foundation of the festival. " This decision was taken at the meeting last Friday in extraordinary session of the Board of Directors of the FCAK Foundation under the chairmanship of Noureddine Sail" indicates a statement from the organizers. In addition, the director and choreographer Lahcen Zinoun, 73, was appointed director of the Festival.

Created in 1977, the Khouribga festival, which celebrates this year its 4 e anniversary, is the most former film festival in Morocco. From its first edition, the gratin of the film criticism of the continent is invited by the National Federation of cinéclubs of Morocco, organizer of the event, then chaired by Noureddine Sail. The French journalists of Cahiers du Cinéma, Serge Toubiana and Serge Daney are present. Among the filmmakers selected during the first editions are the Beninese Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, monument of African cinema of the 20th century and the Senegalese Ababacar Samb and Ousmane Sembène, as well as the Congolese Jean-Michel Tchissoukou and the Moroccan Souheil Benbarka

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