REGIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION OF CASABLANCA-SETTAT ORGANIZES FILM DAYS ON MEMORY PRSERVATION IN MOROCCO
“For the strengthening of the process of democratization and human rights realization” is the slogan of the film days organized by the Regional Human Rights Commission of Casablanca-Settat on memory preservation in Morocco for the benefit of students.The film days, to be staged in Casablanca, El Jadida and Mohammedia, will be an opportunity to introduce students to a number of Moroccan movies produced between 2000 and 2004 centered on the past grave violations of human rights.
The screening of these films is part of implementing the program of monitoring the recommendations of the Equity and Reconciliation Commission (IER) on archives, history and memory, financed by the European Union. It also falls within the framework of following up the implementation of the IER recommendations relating to preserving collective memory and strengthening the process of democratization and human rights realization.
The movies to be shown are “Nizar’s Spectrum” directed by Kamal Kamal, “Memory in Detention” of Jilali Ferhati, “Derb Moulay Cherif” of Hassan Benjelloun and “Jawhara, Prison Girl” of Saad Chraibi.
In rescreening these films, which all focus on the most critical and troublesome period in the history of Morocco, the National Human Rights Council aims to honor their directors who have contributed, through these films, to the process that Morocco has launched in the last decade to provide open and pluralistic readings of its history.