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

The Mediterranean cinema festival of Tetuan will be held from April 2 through 9.

The festival will screen films from Algeria, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Morocco, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, and Yugoslavia.

The festival official jury will be made up of Mouna Wassif (Syria), Francoise Calvez (France), Victoria Fonseca Acuilar (Spain), Abdelkader Lagtaa (Morocco) and Said Said (Egypt).

To mark the 10th anniversary of the festival, organizers have decided to organize 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 Cherif and a show will be devoted to the late Moroccan renowned Andalucian music singer Abdessadek Chekkara, who was a regular attendant of the festival.

The Iranian cinema will be the "Mediterranean guest" of this year's festival which also features a colloquy on "cinema and TV: modes of writing and reception."