A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
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.
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
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