Guelmim Festival: Documentary film in the service of human rights

Eleven films by Moroccan and foreign directors are competing in the official selection of the third edition of the Guelmim Documentary Film Festival, scheduled from 27 to 30 March, which returns this year under the theme "Documentary film, a lever for promoting human rights". According to a statement from the festival's management, organised by the South Centre for the Seventh Art, in addition to these films, which will be judged by a jury chaired by Bouchaib Massaoudi, who is also president of the jury for the Khouribga Documentary Film Festival, 11 other works will be screened out of competition, confirming its ambition to be a platform between the north and the south of the Kingdom. The programme for this edition, named after the artist and writer Bouchra Ijourk, includes two conferences on "Rights and freedoms in Moroccan film" and "The image of women in Moroccan cinema, between ste…