International Film Festival Tetouan Mediterranean: from March 27 to April 3, 2010
Festival of a city,
Festival of the Mediterranean
pourtour méditerranéen. Created in 1985 by a group of film enthusiasts gathered in the Friends of Cinema of Tetouan, the International Festival of Mediterranean Cinema Tetouan has set targets for the promotion and development of films from Mediterranean countries. Since then, the city of Tetouan which hosts in each edition, professionals and lovers of the 7th Art, has been with a major film project it should protect, maintain and develop for the good of a film quality, rich and diverse, and for the happiness of a public hungry for films that reflect the various facets of culture and civilization "the mare nostra."
Much water has flowed under the bridge since the 1st Meeting film successively devoted to Moroccan and French theaters, cinemas and the Moroccan and Spanish. Three years later, in 1988, the Friends of the Cinema of Tetouan, soft by the desire to broaden their experience and to open up to other film industries, Tetouan ignored by the public, answering the call of the magazine Kalima and -fulfilling, at the same time, the wishes of several intellectuals and cinephiles (including Mohamed Osfour, lzza Genini, Daoud Oulad Syad or Serge Toubiana. The Mediterranean becomes both the label and the main theme of the Festival.
It is at this time that the 11th is a historic turning point in his itinerary. The Film Meetings become Tetouan International Mediterranean Film Festival of Tetouan, which is enriched with new sections and two long Competitions and shorts.
In 2003, while preparing the 12th edition is presented in good auspices, circumstances, unforeseen, decide otherwise and force organizers to cancel this edition. Fighting against winds and tides, the organizers say they are not necessarily defeated. In 2006, the idea already germinating in their minds for some years, is taking shape and the Foundation of the International Festival of Mediterranean Cinema Tetouan is born with a personality as President known for his activism in Morocco, its culture and communication skills . Mr. Mohamed Nabil BENABDELLAH graciously accepts to drive, with members of the ACT, this great film and cultural project. secteur. Other personalities of the city voluntarily agree to join the Foundation team: Mr. Wali of the city of Tetouan, the President of the Urban Commune, President of the Council of the Region, Mr. CEO Agency North, and industry professionals.
With this exceptional itinerary and accumulated 25 years of experience rewarding, the 16th International Festival of Mediterranean Cinema Tetouan promises to be even more professional, more spectacular and more friendly 
