Mostafa Derkaoui

Birth : , Oujda, Morocco.

History

Mostafa Derkaoui is a Moroccan Filmmaker born in Oujda in 1944. He obtained a bachelor's degree in philosophy in 1962, and continued his studies at the Conservatory of Dramatic Art in Casablanca before joining, in 1965, the National School of Cinema and Theater of LODZ in Poland , where he is a laureate in achievement. In 1973, he joined the Moroccan Cinematographic Center from where he resigned in 1975. Previously (1974), he had founded with his brother Abdelkrim Derkaoui, and Larbi Belakkaf the company "BASMA-PRODUCTION". In 1980, he founded the company "ART 7". He was appointed in September 2000, President of the Jury at the African Film Festival in Khouribga.

Profile

Movies

Casablanca by Night

Director

Kaltoum is a 15-year-old girl who is forced to work in a nightclub in Casablanca, Morocco to pay for a medical operation for her little brother. to her dismay she discovers the cruel world, that of the city's nightlife.

غراميات الحاج مختار الصولدى

Director

The film revolves around a comic character in which he sarcastically discusses many of the issues in Moroccan society, with El Hadji El Souledi, a candidate for elections in Casablanca, whose character is a symbol of illegal wealth and moral corruption. His life is divided among bars, nightclubs and prostitution. While the police officer Adel and beautiful names that are associated with the life of the child and trying to get rid of it and corruption so that they succeed in the latter in it.

La grande allégorie

Director

Directed by Mustapha Derkaoui.

Les sept portes de la nuit

Director

Directed by Mustapha Derkaoui.

Je(u) au passé

Director

Directed by Mustapha Derkaoui.

Harb El Khalij... wa baad

Director

The second Gulf War from 1990 to 1991 represents in the collective Arab memory a turning point in regards to the Arab nationalism’s self-perception as well as a moment of deep historical and existential insecurity. Five Arab directors discuss the events from their personal perspective.

Riwaya Ula

Director

Directed by Mustapha Derkaoui.

Provisional Title

A film that describes how someone who is haunted by the idea of death learns to suffer.

Provisional Title

Editor

A film that describes how someone who is haunted by the idea of death learns to suffer.

Provisional Title

Writer

A film that describes how someone who is haunted by the idea of death learns to suffer.

Provisional Title

Director

A film that describes how someone who is haunted by the idea of death learns to suffer.

Ayyam Chahrazad aI-Hilwa

Director

Directed by Mostafa Darkaoui.

Le Jour du Forain

Screenplay

Moulay Yacoub starts a physical and poetic journey of self-knowledge across Morocco.

Ramâd al-zariba

Director

Directed by Abdelkrim Derkaoui et al.

About Some Meaningless Events

Producer

In search of a subject for their film, a group of directors ask passers-by about their expectations of Moroccan cinema in the streets and bars of Casablanca.

About Some Meaningless Events

Editor

In search of a subject for their film, a group of directors ask passers-by about their expectations of Moroccan cinema in the streets and bars of Casablanca.

About Some Meaningless Events

Writer

In search of a subject for their film, a group of directors ask passers-by about their expectations of Moroccan cinema in the streets and bars of Casablanca.

About Some Meaningless Events

Director

In search of a subject for their film, a group of directors ask passers-by about their expectations of Moroccan cinema in the streets and bars of Casablanca.