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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, which was commissioned by the 10th Dubai International Film Festival in 2013. [1]
Jan 1, 2001 · Based on Bouanani’s own experiences as a tuberculosis patient, the hospital begins to feel increasingly like a prison or a strange nightmare: the living resemble the dead; bureaucratic angels of death descend to direct traffic, claiming the lives of a motley cast of inmates one by one; childhood memories and fantasies of resurrection flash in an...
In footage captured of the writer and filmmaker Ahmed Bouanani not long before his death in 2011, the cats — at least seven — swirl around his feet and jump onto his lap when he sits, wrapped in a blanket, to read.
Ahmed Bouanani. Morocco. Almost as soon as it was published in 1990, Ahmed Bouanani’s great novel, L’Hôpital, disappeared. Not until two decades later, in 2012, was it re-released in both Morocco and France to international acclaim.
The reclusive poet, novelist, and filmmaker Ahmed Bouanani died on February 6, 2011. In an interview from 1974, he reflected upon a film he was making at the time about a 16th century Sufi poet and resistance fighter.
Poet, essayist, and fiction writer Ahmed Bouanani (1938-2011) was also a protagonist of Moroccan cinema as a director, editor, and screenwriter. He was revered for his artistic vision and unshakable integrity. However, such probity also turned him into a tragic figure.
In Their Own Words. Emma Ramadan on Ahmed Bouanani's “The Shutters” The Shutters is a book made out of memories. It insists on remembering, on telling stories of Morocco's history so that the past isn't pushed into obscurity. Its author, Ahmed Bouanani, was born in Casablanca in 1938.
