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MOROCCO, LANDSCAPE OF CINEMA

Morocco, November 2024 : alongside the 12th Zagora International Documentary Film Festival, where he was invited to present his film GREAT LAKES in competition, the author filmed and photographed the Drâa Valley, the longest Moroccan river bordering the Sahara Desert on the way to the Atlantic, where population and pre-Saharan culture unite with the majestic cinema industry to forge, with the help of the dromedary, “vessel of the desert”, and the oasis goat, source of milk, meat and leather, all the beauty of the land of the Berbers, the “free men”.

المغرب، بلد السينما، على هامش الدورة الثانية عشرة لمهرجان زاكورة الدولي للفيلم الوثائقي
المغرب، نوفمبر 2024: على هامش الدورة الثانية عشرة لمهرجان زاكورة الدولي للفيلم الوثائقي الدولي، حيث دُعي لتقديم فيلمه ”البحيرات الكبرى“ في المسابقة، قام المؤلف بتصوير وتصوير وادي درعة، أطول نهر مغربي يجري بمحاذاة الصحراء الكبرى باتجاه المحيط الأطلسي, حيث يجتمع السكان وثقافة ما قبل الصحراء مع صناعة السينما الكبرى لصياغة جمال أرض البربر، ”الرجال الأحرار“، بمساعدة الجمل العربي، ”وعاء الصحراء“، وماعز الواحات مصدر الحليب واللحم والجلد.

ACKNOWLEDMENTS :
Zagora International Documentary Film Festival,
Auguste & Louis Lumière,
Domitilla Ruffo di Calabria,
Hicham Bahfid,
Aziza Essalek,
Dheeraj Akolkar,
Federico Cortese,
Hatim Abdelghafour,
Christina Sassayannis,
Domenico Maddaloni,
Mohamed Ghoriani,
Mustapha Lahnine,
Safae Lamhaouas,
Alessia Gallegati,
Nicolas Grassler,
Najwa Elfaidi,
Driss Roukhe,
Sophie Hill,
Sjur Larsen,
Ingo Arnason,
Kevin Phillips,
Ismail Eljallali,
Yassine Ait Fkir,
Francesco Cordio,
Driss Idrissi Fazazi,
Khalid Elmargaoui,
Malika Maalainine,
M'Hammed Lamrani Alaoui,
Zineb Chafchaouni Moussaoui,
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Idemania,
Southern Caravan,
Morocco Meander,
Tinsouline Hotel,
Shop Tuareg of Zagora,
Zaouïa Naciria - Tamegroute

  • JORDAN DIOW
    Director
  • Pascal Duthuin
    Director
  • Pascal Duthuin
    Writer
  • JORDAN DIOW
    Producer
  • Pascal Duthuin
    Key Cast
    "Narrator"
  • Sophie Hill
    Key Cast
    "A spectator"
  • Kevin Phillips
    Key Cast
    "A spectator"
  • Dheeraj Akolkar
    Key Cast
    "A spectator"
  • Domitilla Ruffo di Calabria
    Key Cast
    "A spectator"
  • JORDAN DIOW
    Cameraman
  • JORDAN DIOW
    Photographer
  • JORDAN DIOW
    Editor
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    MAROC, PAYS SAGE DES FILMS
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental, Short, Web / New Media, Other
  • Runtime:
    16 minutes 2 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 4, 2025
  • Country of Origin:
    France
  • Country of Filming:
    Morocco
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital 4K
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • 𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐓-𝐎𝐅𝐅 𝐅𝐈𝐋𝐌𝐌𝐀𝐊𝐄𝐑 𝐒𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 𝐇𝐎𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐁𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐓-𝐎𝐅𝐅 𝐆𝐋𝐎𝐁𝐀𝐋 𝐍𝐄𝐓𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐊
    London
    United Kingdom
    April 7, 2025
    UK Premiere
    Official Selection
  • EGYPTIAN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL
    New-York
    October 31, 2025
    North-American Premiere
    Official Selection
  • FILMS THAT MOVE
    Kingston
    December 7, 2025
    Caribbean Premiere
    Honorable Mention
  • International Folklore Film Festival (IFFF)
    Thrissur (Kerala)
    January 15, 2026
    Asian Premiere
    Official Selection
  • International Short Film Festival "NUIT TROP COURTE"
    Grenoble
    France
    January 28, 2026
    French Premiere
    Official Selection
  • 𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐓-𝐎𝐅𝐅 𝐅𝐈𝐋𝐌𝐌𝐀𝐊𝐄𝐑 𝐒𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 𝐇𝐎𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐁𝐘 𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐓-𝐎𝐅𝐅 𝐆𝐋𝐎𝐁𝐀𝐋 𝐍𝐄𝐓𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐊
    London
    United Kingdom
    April 20, 2026
    Official Selection
  • RAZHDAVITSA FILM FEST
    Kyustendil
    Bulgaria
    June 30, 2026
    Bulgarian Premiere
    Official Selection
  • VETERANS MEDIA SHOWCASE (VMS)
    Plant City ( Florida / USA )
    United States
    May 18, 2026
    Official Selection
  • Festival International de Films "ALLONS AU CINÉMA" (FIFAC)
    Bissau
    Guinea-Bissau
    May 17, 2026
    Guinean Premiere
    Official Selection
  • ICJ INTERNATIONAL FILM AWARD
    Lviv
    Ukraine
    September 10, 2026
    Ukrainian Premiere
    Official Selection
  • MIDELT INTERNATIONAL FILM AND HERITAGE FESTIVAL
    Midelt
    Morocco
    September 20, 2026
    Official Selection
Distribution Information
  • Jordan Diow
    Distributor
    Country: Worldwide
    Rights: All Rights
  • Jordan Diow
    Sales Agent
    Country: Worldwide
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - JORDAN DIOW, Pascal Duthuin

JORDAN DIOW (Pascal Duthuin), high-tech entrepreneur (Lithium Espace Mobiles), president of the artistic association ◄۞ 16/9 PRODUCTIONS ۞► , is an actor-director-producer, singer-songwriter, visual artist/photographer, performer and French poet/ novelist. Studied the technique of cinema at the CLCF (Conservatoire libre du cinéma français), as well as its more volatile data, history(s) and theory(s), at the University of Paris-VIII. Seasoned traveler he traces a very personal creative line through the enclaves of a video production nourished by multiple graphic, photographic, musical & literary experiences.
“ Originally from Franche-Comté, a land of snow and harshness, I went to school in Besançon, a historic city shrouded in the halo of Victor Hugo and the Lumière brothers. I grew up admiring the works of Gustave Courbet and the Master Watchmakers who made the city's reputation throughout Europe. After graduating with a literary baccalaureate, followed by a wandering year in economics, I studied film technology at the CLCF (Free Conservatory of French Cinema), which awarded me a degree, then its more volatile data, history(s) and theory(ies), at the University of Paris-VIII. I soon discovered other artistic disciplines, learning them on my own, particularly the visual arts during the two years I spent as a salesman for Graphigro, and, as a seasoned traveler nourished by a long stay in India, I then set about tracing a personal creative line through the enclaves of a video-production nourished by multiple graphic, photographic, musical & literary experiences.

I call this particular path the 'encyclopedic temptation'. ”

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Director Statement

Between recreation, entertainment, stupefaction, exploitation of man by man, of the planet by man, of man by war on the one hand, and also media of anticipation in the first sense (knowledge is acting), divination, spiritism, a true act of faith, a solid proof of love, an instrument of philosophical reflection, an introspective arsenal or a factor of real progress through the transmission of knowledge and the elevation of the level of consciousness that it allows, the possibilities of cinema are more than immense, in reality infinite as it is also the case for any form of art, but from Andreï Tarkovski to Leni Riefenstahl via Cocteau, Besson and Dupontel, comes a time when it is necessary to (really) choose.