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Cinema found again

Trances ( Morocco 1981 )

Color: Documentary, color, 87’

Direction: Ahmed El Maanouni

Screenplay: Ahmed El Maanouni

Director of Photography: Ahmed El Maanouni

Music: Nass Ek Ghiwane

Editing: Jean-Claude Bonfanti

Cast: Larbi Batma, Aberrahman Paco, Omar Sayed, Allal Yaala

Production: OHRA/SOGEAV

Synopsis

Since the seventies, Morocco, thanks to five musicians “Nass El Ghiwane” educated in the school of the street and decided to break with the invading "oriental languors", knew a musical explosion that would be for the young generation the shout of their desires, of their frustrations and of their revolt.

Réalisateur

Ahmed El Maanouni was born in 1944 in Casablanca. He took degrees in Theatre Studies from the Université Internationale du Theatre in Paris and Cinema Studies from the Université Paris VIII and the I.N.S.A.S. in Brussels. His films, including Alyam Alyam (1978) and Transes (1981), have won numerous international prizes.