Ahmed El Maanouni
- Director
- Writer
- Cinematographer
Ahmed El Maanouni is a screenwriter, film director, cinematographer,
actor and producer born in Casablanca. His films include one of the
most emblematic title of Moroccan cinema Alyam Alyam (1978), first
Moroccan film to be selected in Cannes Film Festival and winner of the
Grand Prize at the Mannheim film festival. He caught international
attention when his film Trances (Al Hal) was honored and presented by
Martin Scorsese at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival to inaugurate the
World Cinema Foundation. His film Burned Hearts (Les Coeurs Brûlés)
(2007) won the Grand Prize at the National Film festival. His
documentary films consistently interrogate colonial history and its
impact on Moroccan memory. In 2007 he has been honored with the title
of Officier of the Ordre des Arts et Lettres in France.
