Ahmed Bouanani (

Casablanca Casablanca, also known in Arabic as Dar al-Bayda ( ar, الدَّار الْبَيْضَاء, al-Dār al-Bayḍāʾ, ; ber, ⴹⴹⴰⵕⵍⴱⵉⴹⴰ, ḍḍaṛlbiḍa, : "White House") is the largest city in Morocco and the country's econom ...

, 16 November 1938 -

Demnate Demnate ( ar, دمنات; zgh, Demnat, ⴷⴻⵎⵏⴰⵜ) is a town in central Morocco, located at the foot of the high Atlas Mountains roughly 110 km east of Marrakech. The majority of the population speaks Berber; the local dialect is Tas ...

, 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 commissioned by the 10th Dubai International Film Festival in 2013. In 1983 he also made a comic strip for the newspaper Al Maghrib. In addition to filmmaking, Bouanini wrote three collections of poetry and one novel, ''The Hospital'', translated into English by Lara Vergnaud and published by New Directions in 2018.

Bibliography

* ''The Hospital'' (''L'hôpital'', novel) * ''The Shutters'' (''Persiennes'', poetry)

Filmography

Feature films

* 1979: ''The Mirage''

Short films

*1968 : ''6 et 12'' Institut du monde arabe, 2010 *1971 : ''Mémoire 14'' ''La Vie éco'', 2011 *1974 : ''Les Quatre Sources'' La Triennalle 2012 *1996 ː ''La Marche d’un poète''

References

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