Ahmed Bouanani (1938-2011)

Alias:
أحمد البوعناني

Birthplace:
Casablanca, Morocco

Born:
November 16, 1938

Died:
February 6, 2011

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.

Additional information:

The Search Form


Director:
1966  Tarfaya (or The Walk Of A Poet)
1968  Six and Twelve
1971  Memory 14
1977  The Four Sources
1979  Mirage

Editor:
1966  Tarfaya (or The Walk Of A Poet)
1968  Six and Twelve
1970  The Devil's Treasure
1971  Memory 14
1971  Traces
1977  The Four Sources
1978  al-Kanfoudi
1979  Mirage
1982  From the Other Side of the River
1982  Naïtou, the Orphan Girl

Original Film Writer:
1966  Tarfaya (or The Walk Of A Poet)
1968  Six and Twelve
1970  The Devil's Treasure
1971  Memory 14
1971  Traces
1977  The Four Sources
1978  al-Kanfoudi
1979  Mirage
1982  From the Other Side of the River
1982  Naïtou, the Orphan Girl
2024  The snail

Scenario Writer:
1966  Tarfaya (or The Walk Of A Poet)
1968  Six and Twelve
1970  The Devil's Treasure
1971  Memory 14
1971  Traces
1977  The Four Sources
1978  al-Kanfoudi
1979  Mirage
1982  From the Other Side of the River
1982  Naïtou, the Orphan Girl
2008  The Shell Necklace
2024  The snail

Screenplay:
1966  Tarfaya (or The Walk Of A Poet)
1968  Six and Twelve
1970  The Devil's Treasure
1971  Memory 14
1971  Traces
1977  The Four Sources
1978  al-Kanfoudi
1979  Mirage
1982  From the Other Side of the River
1982  Naïtou, the Orphan Girl
2008  The Shell Necklace
2024  The snail

Writer:
1966  Tarfaya (or The Walk Of A Poet)
1968  Six and Twelve
1970  The Devil's Treasure
1971  Memory 14
1971  Traces
1977  The Four Sources
1978  al-Kanfoudi
1979  Mirage
1982  From the Other Side of the River
1982  Naïtou, the Orphan Girl
1993  Entre l'absence et l'oubli
2002  Wind Horse
2008  The Shell Necklace
2024  The snail

About the Movie Section

Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).

Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.

Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)

While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:

  • I added "runners up" to Top 10 lists, treating them as ties where applicable and numbering them accordingly at the bottom of each list.
  • Regarding those polls wherein "franchise" movies were submitted as one project until BFI's policy changed to regard them separately, I treated them as ties and renumbered the affected lists accordingly (e.g. the Godfather films).

Regarding profile removals and data corrections:

  • If you would like your profile removed from this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's gone from their site, it should soon be gone from this site.
  • If you would like to correct movie data on this site, please contact the source of this data directly, TheMovieDB. My assumption is: once it's corrected on their site, it should soon be corrected on this site.
  • For additional corrections and profile removals, please e-mail The Open Movie Database (OMDb).

Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).

Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.

Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.