Morocco: in Transit

Unlike the stereotypes that portray a society languishing in its past, the sessions concerned with Morocco in the cycle “Origins” aim to emphasise the overlapping of a wide range of realities and dynamics: from the movements of democratic opposition during the reign of Hassan II through to the processes of transformation that are presently occurring in all social milieus and taking in clearly differing cultures and traditions. This cycle, “Origins”, aspires to make better known the most salient cultural references of the countries of origin of the immigrant population presently residing in Catalonia.

 
11 April

7 p.m. Debate / Memories of Morocco

Driss Bouissef Rekab, writer, author of A l’ombre de Lalla Chafia (In the Shadow of Lalla Chafia – published in Spanish as A la somba de Lalla Chafia, Ediciones del Oriente y del Mediterráneo, 2004)
Abdel Aziz el Mountassir, actor

8.30 p.m. Screening / Mout Tania

Film directed by Ivan Boccara, 1999, 56 min., original version, subtitled in Spanish

This film bears witness, through the person of Hammadi, a Berber peasant, blacksmith, bee-keeper, watchmaker, story teller, inter alia, to a form of traditional life that is perfectly adapted to its natural setting in the high ground of the Atlas Mountains. Winner of the Best Documentary Prize, Institut du Monde Arabe (Paris), 2000.

12 April

7 p.m. Debate / In Transit

M'hamed Abdelouahed Allaoui, degree in Hispanic Philology, founder-member of the Amazigh House of Catalonia
Salwa El Gharbi, jurist and president of TAMETTUT (Association of Amazigh Women for Culture and Development).

8.30 p.m. Screening / Casanegra

Film directed by Nour-Eddine Lakhmari, 2008, 131 min., original version, subtitled in Spanish

Halfway between a classic of film noir and Scorsese’s Mean Streets, Casanegra is the story of two young men living off their wits, each one with his own dreams. This is the other face of Casablanca.