Arab movies featured at the Arab film festival in Washington DC
Regional-USA, Local, 10/13/2004

Moroccan "In Casablanca, Angels do not fly" movie is featured twice at the ninth edition of the Arab film festival to take place in Washington DC on October 15 through 24.

The movie, by cineaste Mohamed Asli, will be presented among a series of recent best Arab films dealing with social, political and religious issues and other problems in the Arab region.

The Festival features films by Arab movie-makers, including "White nights" by Hani Khalifa (Egypt), "Door towards the sun" by Yousri Narrallah (Egypt), "Our auditor's request" by Abdullatif Abdulhamid (Syria), "The villa" by Mohammed Damak (Tunisia), "Olive crop" by Hanna Elias (Palestine), "Women on the other side of frontiers" by Jean K.Chamoun (Lebanon), "Rods man" by Amer Alwan (Iraq) and "About Iraq" (USA), collectively produced by Sinan Antoon, Bassam Haddad, Maya Mikdashi, Suzy Salmy and Adam Shapiro.

"In Casablanca, angels do not fly" was awarded the Gold Tanit at the 20th session of the Carthage "journŽes cinematographiques" held in Tunis on October 1-9.

The Moroccan movie also grabbed last September 15 the first prize of the 20th International Cinema Festival of the Egyptian coastal city of Alexandria after a unanimous vote of the Jury.

The movie tells of villagers coming down from the Atlas Mountains seeking jobs in Casablanca and experiencing the hardships of the big city.

It was also presented in several festivals, namely in Cannes, Asilah (Northern Morocco) at the South-South festival, as well as in the First International Festival of Sale (twin city of Rabat) held in September that awarded Abdessamad Miftah Elkheir, starring in the movie, best masculine actor.

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