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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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2017
Crossing the Seventh Gate
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2008
The Shell Necklace
Movie Scenario Writer
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2002
Wind Horse
Movie Writer
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1998
Bye-Bye Souirty
Movie Writer
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1993
Entre l'absence et l'oubli
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1989
A Door to the Sky
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1982
Naïtou, the Orphan Girl
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1982
From the Other Side of the River
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1979
Mirage
Movie Writer
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1978
al-Kanfoudi
Movie Editor
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1977
The Four Sources
Movie Writer
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1971
Traces
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1971
Memory 14
Movie Director
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1970
The Devil's Treasure
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1968
Six and Twelve
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1966
Tarfaya (or The Walk Of A Poet)
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1963
Dawn
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