Ahmed Bouanani

Directing Nov 16, 1938 Feb 6, 2011 (aged 73) 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.

3 Acting Credits

13 Crew Credits

Ahmed Bouanani

Acting

A Door to the Sky

Dawn

Crossing the Seventh Gate

Crew

Mirage

Traces

Wind Horse

Naïtou, the Orphan Girl

Six and Twelve

al-Kanfoudi

The Four Sources

Entre l'absence et l'oubli

Memory 14

Tarfaya (or The Walk Of A Poet)

The Devil's Treasure

The Shell Necklace