The International Women's Film Festival of Salé (

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: المهرجان الدولي لفيلم المرأة بسلا) or FIFFS, is a film festival held in

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, Morocco. Organized by the Bouregreg Association under the patronage of

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with the aim of promoting women's cinema and highlighting women in cinema, the festival was created in 2004 and was followed by a second edition in 2006. It has been an annual event since 2009 (with the exception of 2020, due to the Covid-19 pandemic). At the first edition, the jury was made entirely of women and was presided over by Moroccan filmmaker

Narjiss Nejjar Narjiss Nejjar (born 1971) is a Moroccan filmmaker and screenwriter. Her film ''Les Yeux Secs'' (''Cry No More'') was screened at Cannes in 2003. Early life and career Nejjar was a student at ESRA in Paris, where she studied filmmaking. In 199 ...

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{{Reflist Salé Film festivals in Morocco

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