Ahmed Bouanani

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Ahmed Bouanani

Directing November 16, 1938

Casablanca, Morocco

Ahmed Bouanani (Casablanca, 16 November 1938 - Demnate, 6 February 2011) was a Moroccan film director, poet and novelist. He was best known from the 1979 film The Mirage, which fe…

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Ahmed Bouanani (Casablanca, 16 November 1938 - Demnate, 6 February 2011) was a Moroccan film director, poet and novelist. He was best known from the 1979 film The Mirage, which featured as no.61 on the list of the best and most important 100 Arabic films commissioned by the 10th Dubai International Film Festival in 2013. In 1983 he also made a comic strip for the newspaper Al Maghrib. In addition to filmmaking, Bouanini wrote three collections of poetry and one novel, The Hospital, translated into English by Lara Vergnaud and published by New Directions in 2018.

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  1. 2017
    Crossing the Seventh Gate

    Movie himself

  2. 2008
    The Shell Necklace

    Movie Scenario Writer

  3. 2002
    Wind Horse

    Movie Writer

  4. 1998
    Bye-Bye Souirty

    Movie Writer

  5. 1993
    Entre l'absence et l'oubli

    Movie Writer

  6. 1989
  7. 1982
    Naïtou, the Orphan Girl

    Movie Editor

  8. 1982
  9. 1979
    Mirage

    Movie Writer

  10. 1978
    al-Kanfoudi

    Movie Editor

  11. 1977
    The Four Sources

    Movie Writer

  12. 1971
    Traces

    Movie Editor

  13. 1971
    Memory 14

    Movie Director

  14. 1970
    The Devil's Treasure

    Movie Editor

  15. 1968
    Six and Twelve

    Movie Director

  16. 1966
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  1. 1963
    Dawn

    Movie