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MEDI1TV Afrique : Culture - 25/10/2024

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00:00Welcome to Mediën TV and Zoom in this chronicle on the young director, Etman Salil, who has
00:15just produced his first short film, Le Fils des Amazones, and who participated in the
00:22short film category and in the official selection, and it was during the 24th edition of the
00:28National Film Festival of Tangier, Etman Salil, who makes us both happy and honored to be with us.
00:34Etman Salil, thank you very much for accepting our invitation, a first short film, a first
00:40official selection, what does it do to you? What joy, what happiness, and thank you for the invitation.
00:48It's huge to be able to be part of the official selection of the National Film Festival of Tangier
00:54and to be able to see other talents, more confirmed talents, and then the constant evolution of
00:59Moroccan cinema and to be part of it, it's really good. So Le Fils des Amazones, as I said,
01:04your first short film, you are, I would like to clarify that you are an actor, you are also a
01:09director, how did this step towards the 7th art and how did this first short film take shape?
01:15It happened very naturally, I had the idea of ​​this story that has grown in my mind
01:23for a while and then I took the time to mature this idea and then it also traces a
01:28rather personal story so it seemed obvious to me to do it in a fictional way and
01:35to do it with as much poetry as possible. Plus a poetry to which your three actresses
01:40participated, Niazi, Atef and Kounda, who were exceptional, how did these shootings go and
01:47how do we manage to convince because it always surprises us to see that for a first
01:52short film, for a first short film, for a first cinematographic experience,
01:56our actresses confirmed, trusted young directors. How did this collaboration with these actresses
02:02happen? Well, it's a collaboration that went wonderfully well,
02:08these extraordinary women and these talented actresses offered me their talent to give
02:16body and make this story live, they federated around this project, they believed in it,
02:21they made their sensitivity reflected and then they believed in my sensitivity and in the
02:26sensitivity of this story and it was wonderful. As I was saying, Othmane Salih, you participated
02:32in this 24th edition of the National Film Festival, it is your first short film,
02:37so you are writing the first lines of your story in this contemporary Moroccan cinema
02:44of the 21st century, do you want to continue in this cinematographic experience,
02:50in other creations of this kind, or maybe, why not, another cinema that would be the hiding place
02:56of Othmane Salih? Well, listen, I hope so, yes, the ambition is great, it is present,
03:03I obviously want to continue and I am currently working on another film project
03:08and other projects in parallel that I hope will always be able to carry my vision with the most
03:14honesty, sensitivity and poetry possible. So, as I was saying, Othmane Salih, you are an actor,
03:19you are a director and you are therefore a director today, how do you find the time
03:26to do all this? And you, who are between Morocco and France, do you have a background
03:32today on contemporary Moroccan cinema or short cinema? I don't know if I have a background,
03:39but in any case I have a look that I carry on Moroccan cinema since it is the one
03:47I aspire to join and I see its evolution, I see that it is in relation to the sociological context,
03:53in relation to the identity history, also Moroccan, I also see this desire to go forward
03:58and to evoke many subjects and to also sometimes take a little courage in both hands and to
04:05make works that are part of a continuity and perhaps also for some a renewal
04:10and I think it's great. So, when you see this Moroccan cinema, the themes,
04:16as I was saying, you were at this 24th edition of the Tanger Film National Festival,
04:22which brought with it great names, great themes, new themes,
04:28is there a theme that struck you, that you wanted to develop,
04:34maybe, why not, in a short film or maybe in a few years, in a feature film?
04:41What struck me in some films that I saw during this festival, it also touched me a lot,
04:48it is also the search for the dignity of people in society, which I found in many
04:54directors who tried to explore through their characters and their stories
04:58and it was wonderful to be able to see the work being done.
05:04A theme perhaps, the dignity that struck you, that you wanted to perhaps,
05:10why not, make a film about it, but with this look of someone who is between these two cultures, let's say.
05:18What has always motivated me, to be very honest with you, is a search for beauty
05:22and when I speak of beauty, it is really in the most noble sense and in the widest sense of the term.
05:27Everything that the word beauty can encompass and it is something that I would like, it is a quest,
05:32that I would really like to be able to show in my films, through both the sensitivity of the stories
05:37and the sensitivity of the characters and then also to go in search of new talents,
05:42natural actors, not necessarily actors who are already confirmed,
05:46even if the composition can be done very well with non-professional actors
05:50and really always go in search of the new.
05:55I find it very exciting and very challenging.
05:58One last question, very briefly, what will we see at the Eid al-Adha in Morocco,
06:02with a play, a staging or even an actor?
06:06I hope very strongly, I hope.
06:09Eid al-Adha, thank you very much for accepting our invitation.
06:12I remind you that you are an actor, a director and you have just made your first short film,
06:19The Son of the Amazons, which was in official competition at the 24th edition of the Tanger Film Festival.
06:29Thank you, dear viewers, for your loyalty.
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