Blue Handkerchief (The)

  • Mouchoir Bleu (Le)
Type : Fiction
Original title : المنديل الا زرق
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 1995
Format : Short
Running time : 20 (in minutes)

There are a cardboard box, a blanket by way for screen, two stems planted in the box are crossing from top to bottom. They are used to unroll images, cut out in a comic strip; these images are stuck down to one to the other to form a thick roll; a candle is placed behind this strip (like a lamp with mirror, already). Maimoun wakes up at night, when his parents are sleeping, to stick images one after the other. He is making his movie in secret. He transports his cardboard and several rolls of images. Images that he shows to other children.

A film by Jillali FERHATI

starring Hmida Ahrouchi, Souad El Bakhoukh, Abdellah Bennajjar & Nezha Zakaria

Morocco, 1995, short film, 20 mins

Segment of the collective film CINQ FILMS POUR CENT ANS / FIVE FILMS FOR A HUNDRED YEARS
Five episodes directed by Farida Benlyazid, Jillali Ferhati, Hakim Noury, Aldelkader Lagtaâ and Omar Chraïbi.
Each filmmaker draws from his imagination and from his/her memories: the first screenings, prohibition by the parents, the magic lantern, cinema lessons by french cinema-loving teachers at the university. 

Titles:
المنديل الا زرق / LE MOUCHOIR BLEU / THE BLUE HANDKERCHIEF

Director: Jillali Ferhati
Screenwriter: Jillali Ferhati
Cinematographer: Kamal Derkaoui
Sound Designer: Faouzi Thabet
Editors: M. Meziane, A. Sefrioui et K. Bornaz
Music: Ali Hassan Souissi

Organizations

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Partners

  • Arterial network
  • Media, Sports and Entertainment Group (MSE)
  • Gens de la Caraïbe
  • Groupe 30 Afrique
  • Alliance Française VANUATU
  • PACIFIC ARTS ALLIANCE
  • FURTHER ARTS
  • Zimbabwe : Culture Fund Of Zimbabwe Trust
  • RDC : Groupe TACCEMS
  • Rwanda : Positive Production
  • Togo : Kadam Kadam
  • Niger : ONG Culture Art Humanité
  • Collectif 2004 Images
  • Africultures Burkina-Faso
  • Bénincultures / Editions Plurielles
  • Africiné
  • Afrilivres

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