Mediterranean cinema festival of Tetuan to be held April 2-9

The Mediterranean cinema festival of Tetuan will be held this year from April 2 - 9.

To mark the 10th anniversary of the festival, organizers have decided to hold a competition for feature and short movies. The winners will get prizes ranging between 70,000 dh and 25,000 dh.

The festival will pay tribute to Moroccan and Egyptian actors, Mohamed Miftah and Nour Sherif, and will devote its "Mediterranean guest" to Iranian cinema.

A show will be devoted to the late Moroccan singer Abdessadek Chekkara, who was a regular attendant of the festival.

Abdessadek Chekkara, a renowned Andalucian singer, passed away last November. He gained fame for his long and skillful research into the rich heritage of Moroccan Andalucian music, inherited from the Muslim rule in Spain.

The festival which features a colloquy on "Cinema and TV: modes of writing and reception," will screen films from Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Spain,France, Greece, Yugoslavia, Italy.