Cinema and Migration Festival: A successful edition with few resources

After four days of cinema, debates, meetings, and workshop work, the curtain fell on Saturday evening on the 9th edition of the Agadir Cinema and Migration Festival, which was chaired by the Moroccan novelist and poet Tahar Benjelloun.One must really take one's hat off to the entire organisational team, led by Aziz El Omari, the festival director, and alongside him Driss Moubarik, the president of the Cultural Initiative Association, to whom we owe this artistic event dedicated to the 7th Art and devoted to the theme of migration. But this choice is not fortuitous because the festival is organised in the capital of Souss-Massa-Drâa, a region of emigration for a very long time.Like every year, the programming focused on a range of feature films dealing with the theme of migration, by Moroccan, European, and other directors ("Illégal" by Olivier Massey-Depasse, "Beur sur la ville" by Djam…