Director

Ahmed Bouanani

Directing

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Directed movies: 2Directed series: 0All crew credits: 11

TMDB ID: 1330688

IMDb ID: nm0098808

Known for: Directing

Born: November 16, 1938

Died: February 6, 2011

Age: 72

Place of birth: Casablanca, Morocco

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1963 - 2017

Years active: 55

Wikidata: Q2827520

Also known as

أحمد البوعناني

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Director (2)Editor (6)Writer (2)Scenario Writer (1)

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Biography

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.