The Franco-Moroccan, Ali Sekkaki, and the Moroccan director Saâd Chraïbi, will chair the juries for feature and short films at the 21st edition of the Tetouan International Mediterranean Film Festival (FICMT).
According to a statement from the organisers, the feature film jury for this edition of the festival is composed of illustrious personalities of the 7th art. These include the Spaniard Virginia de Morata, the Italian Giona A. Nazzaro, the Egyptian Fathi Abdelwahab, and the Moroccan Ahmed Boulane.
Ali Sekkaki is a director, critic, and film specialist, as well as an associate professor in film professions, a member of the joint commission of the Ministries of Culture and National Education, and editor-in-chief of the French National Film Institute's magazine "Cinéma A3".
Alongside him will be the talented Iberian actress Virginia de Morata, who has acted in numerous films and has worked with great figures of cinema such as Antonio Banderas in 2005, the statement indicates, noting that she has succeeded in artistically seducing great masters of the 7th art and was crowned with the best actress award in 2007 for the film Elena and Rebeca by Enrique Garcia.
Regarding Giona A. Nazzaro, an Italian film critic and director, he is also a member of the film selection committee at the Turin and Rome Festivals, and a programmer for the Festivals dei Popoli in Florence and Visions du Réel in Nyon (Switzerland).
For his part, the Egyptian actor Fathi Abdelouahab, whose name has shone in various performances, has acted in films such as "Alzheimer", "Newspaper Words", "An Hour and a Half", "Cabaret", and "Late Evenings".
A graduate of Italian film schools, the great director Ahmed Boulane is the other member of the jury. Everyone remembers the success of his feature films "Ali", "Rabiaa and the Others", "Satan's Angels", and "The Return of the Son".
As for the short film jury, it is chaired by the Moroccan director Saâd Chraïbi, a great defender of women's rights, to whom the FICMT paid a vibrant tribute two years ago.
The jury is also composed of the French filmmaker Michael Drigèz, her compatriot the actress Nanou Harry, the Greek Stavroula Geronimaki, delegate of the Greek Film Centre, and the Spaniard Esther Cabero, in charge of promoting the KIMUAK short film.
As for the documentary film jury, there will be the Algerian academic and director Ahmed Bedjaoui, founder of the Algerian media library and producer of more than 80 films for his country's television, the French director Didier Kiner, the Spanish director and producer Fernando Méndez, and the Moroccan writer and academic Alia Maâ Alainain.
