21-03-2025
For the First Time, Amir Ramses Joins Jury of Tetouan Festival
Director Amir Ramses is to take part in the feature film jury; (narrative and documentary), at the 30th Tetouan Mediterranean Film Festival in northern Morocco, scheduled to take place from April 26th to May 3rd. Multiple quality films are to be screened in the festival. Ramses mentioned that it's his first participation, as a jury member, in Tetouan Festival, which includes several prominent figures, such as the jury head, Italian director, screenwriter, and actor Daniele Luchetti. Luchetti's films received prestigious awards in many international festivals. The jury also includes Moroccan director, screenwriter and producer Asmaa El-Moudir who won the Caméra d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and Portuguese producer Isabel Machado who supervised multiple festivals and supported young talents. Furthermore, the jury includes French journalist, director and critic for "Positif" magazine, Nguyen Truong Bing, who is interested in film documentation issues. With all these figures, Ramses considers it a special mission in a major festival in Morocco. In the upcoming edition, 10 feature films compete for the "Tamuda"; the festival's top award, Mohamed Rekab Jury Award, Ezz El-Din Medour Award for the First Work, as well as Best Actor and Actress Awards. The festival celebrates three decades of dedication to promoting Mediterranean cinema and enriching cinema in Morocco. The festival was founded in 1985 at the initiative of the Friends of Cinema Association in Tetouan. Since that time, it has sought to enrich its portfolio and networks in multiple Mediterranean countries in order to become a major platform and a vital artistic event for fostering dialogue between generations and cross-pollination of cinematic experiences. It also aims at promoting values of openness, modernity and civilization and raising the name of Tetouan city high in the fields of art and cinema at the national level and at the Mediterranean Basin level.
