Morocco in Motion: the Global Reach of Moroccan Cinema
Venues:
- Friday: Seminar Room 4, Chrystal Macmillan Building, 15 George Square, Edinburgh University, Scotland
- Saturday & Sunday: Project Room, 50 George Square, Edinburgh University, Scotland
Dates:
- Friday 26 October: 1-6pm
- Saturday 27 October: 9am – 6pm
- Sunday 28 October: 10am – 6pm
Register online on our Eventbrite page
Overview of speakers and panels now available here: TMC Conference Programme!
Conference Programme now also available: Full Conference Programme
The Transnational Moroccan Cinema research team has invited researchers, critics and filmmakers for a major international conference to be held in conjunction with the Africa in Motion film festival in Edinburgh in October 2018. The conference will develop the issues, themes and debates from our first conference in Marrakech in December 2016.
At the first conference, the focus was the state of Moroccan cinema and the potential transnational connections for Moroccan cinema in terms theory, criticism and practice. This second edition will advance the debates and discussions from Marrakech to explore the real and imagined global reach of Moroccan cinema – and the transnational connections (not solely those taking place along the postcolonial axis between Morocco and France) that also inform the current state and future direction of ‘Moroccan’ cinema in all its forms.
The conference aims to explore these facets of transnational cinema in the context of ‘Transnational Moroccan Cinema’ – understood here as the production, circulation and reception of films within and beyond Morocco as well as in the Moroccan diaspora across the globe.
Panels include ‘Critical and Political Identities’, ‘Marketing Morocco’, ‘Legacies of Moroccan Cinema’ and ‘Migration and Diaspora’. Five roundtables will encourage debate and dialogue between established and new filmmakers as well as producers, filmmakers, critics, cultural policy makers. Two very exciting keynote speakers will complete a truly impressive line-up for a three day immersion into Moroccan cinema.
OPEN AND FREE TO THE PUBLIC, reserve your seat here!