The 2012, and the first Meditalents class, was held in partnership with CFI-France Media Monde, and focused on writing a short film project highlighting an event that affected one or more of the protagonists of their feature film project.
The sessions were hosted mainly in Ouarzazate and Casablanca (Morocco) by the Ouarzazate Film Commission.
Living in poverty and responsible for his family early on, Amine, an 8-year-old child, does everything to give his father a gift before he dies. It is a drama that combines the cruelty of fate and the poignant innocence of childhood.
Said is a journalist and favorite columnist for an Algerian newspaper, who miraculously escaped a terrorist attack. Taking refuge in a small studio where initially his stay was not supposed to exceed 5 days, the time for his director and best friend, Farid, to arrange a visa for him and his family for France. But given his problems with the law (censorship) he sees his stay lengthening. Said only communicates with the outside world thanks to two means, his fax telephone with which he sends his columns to his newspaper, and a delivery man, Kamel, whom he does not meet. One day for the first time in more than 40 days, he receives a phone call; the calls are repeated... We found him... Said decides not to hide anymore and goes out....
In a city in the south of Algiers, in the mid-90s. Djaber and Yamina are neighbors but do not know each other. For both of them, it is so difficult for girls and boys to meet that they have almost stopped dreaming of it. In a few days, however, what was until then only a muffled and distant violence erupts before them, forever changing their destinies.
Adil is a young lonely van driver, spends his time delivering orders to people, resists a serious illness, and tries to confess his love to Zineb, a young worker in a carpet factory. One day, he decides to abandon everything, and leaves the city to live the rest of his life by a lake.
Dialogue between several cultures which find themselves in conversation over time and between generations.
An eight-year-old boy moves to the edge of the desert with his parents. The latter only dreams of the sea and of becoming a fisherman like his uncle. When his mother died, he decided to go and make his dream come true.
Rachid Chifouni, nicknamed Ammi Lhaj, is a cynical old man who hates people. One day, he must return against his will to the city where he lived a long time ago. He will have to rub shoulders with three young friends on a treasure quest. By experiencing their paradoxes, their joys and misfortunes, AMMI LHAJ will transform and gradually lose its hatred of others.
Magali Negroni holds a DEA from the University of Paris 8. Her research focused on Saül Bass. She began her career as an assistant director and went on to become a director, working on short films, commercials and documentaries that have been selected for competition in Berlin, New York and at the César awards.
Currently, she works as a scriptwriter and consultant mainly in the Middle East and Maghreb countries, as well as being a reader for Cinémas du Monde. In collaboration with Virginie Legeay, she co-wrote and produced the following films: "Les Jours d'avant" by Karim Moussaoui, "Hédi" by Mohamed Ben Attia, both of which won prizes in Berlin, and "The Translator" by Rana Kazkaz, which won the Prix Cinéfondation and was acquired by Arte.
She discovered cinema while training as a percussionist. After studying at the Ciné-Sup preparatory class and then at Femis (class of 2007, Scenario department, where she worked alongside Rebecca Zlotowski and Audrey Fouché),she first worked as an assistant director to Jean-Claude Brisseau, with whom she also collaborated as an actress. She has written the screenplays for several short films.
Born in 1963 in Aderj, Morocco, Hassan Legzoulihas lived in Lille, France, since the 1980s. After studying mathematics, heturned to cinema. In 1994, he graduated as a director from INSAS, the film school in Brussels, Belgium. In 1990, he directed his first short film, Ailleurs et ici, followed by four others, Coup de gigot (1991), Le Marchand de souvenirs (1992), Là- bas si j'y suis (1993) and L'Ère du soupçon (1994).
Danièle Suissa, originally from Casablanca, was deeply influenced by her childhood in Morocco, where the magic of the environment and the vibrant colors, faces,sounds, and music shaped her creative path. After studying at Marymount Paris and New York, she graduated from the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art in Paris. She began her career as a stage manager at the Theatre du Palais Royal and went on to assist renowned directors in Europe and the United States. Danièle collaborated with Anaïs Nin on three screenplays and adapted her novel "Une Espionne Dans La Maison De L'amour" with Jeanne Moreau. In Montreal, she directed numerous plays in both English and French and co-produced films in Canada and France. She also directed commercials and taught acting, directing, and production at various institutions. Danièle later moved to Jordan and taught at the Red Sea Institute of Cinematic Art before returning to Morocco.
