Person

Ahmed Bouanani

Directing · 1938–2011 · Casablanca, Morocco

Ahmed Bouanani (Casablanca, 16 November 1938 - Demnate, 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.

• Wind Horse

  Writer

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  Crossing the Seventh Gate

  himself

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  Tarfaya (or The Walk Of A Poet)

  Editor

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  Dawn

  1963

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  A Door to the Sky

  1989

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  The Shell Necklace

  Scenario Writer

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  Mirage

  Writer

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  Bye-Bye Souirty

  Writer

• Entre l'absence et l'oubli

  Writer

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  Traces

  Editor

• 2017Crossing the Seventh Gatehimself
• 2008The Shell NecklaceScenario Writer
• 2002Wind HorseWriter
• 1998Bye-Bye SouirtyWriter
• 1993Entre l'absence et l'oubliWriter
• 1989A Door to the Sky
• 1982Naïtou, the Orphan GirlEditor
• 1982From the Other Side of the RiverEditor
• 1979MirageWriter
• 1978al-KanfoudiEditor
• 1977The Four SourcesWriter
• 1971TracesEditor
• 1971Memory 14Director
• 1970The Devil's TreasureEditor
• 1968Six and TwelveEditor
• 1966Tarfaya (or The Walk Of A Poet)Editor
• 1963Dawn