Mostafa Derkaoui

Directing

Mostafa Derkaoui

Oujda, Morocco.

Mostafa Derkaoui is a Moroccan Filmmaker born in Oujda in 1944. He obtained a bachelor's degree in philosophy in 1962, and continued his studies at the Conservatory of Dramatic Art in Casablanca before joining, in 1965, the National School of Cinema and Theater of LODZ in Poland , where he is a laureate in achievement. In 1973, he joined the Moroccan Cinematographic Center from where he resigned in 1975. Previously (1974), he had founded with his brother Abdelkrim Derkaoui, and Larbi Belakkaf the company "BASMA-PRODUCTION". In 1980, he founded the company "ART 7". He was appointed in September 2000, President of the Jury at the African Film Festival in Khouribga.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Provisional Title poster
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A film that describes how someone who is haunted by the idea of death learns to suffer.

Provisional Title

1984

Provisional Title poster
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A film that describes how someone who is haunted by the idea of death learns to suffer.

Provisional Title

1984

Cinders of the Vineyard poster
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Directed by Abdelkrim Derkaoui et al.

Cinders of the Vineyard

1977

About Some Meaningless Events poster
6.1

In Casablanca, a group of filmmakers conduct discussions with people about their expectations of, and aspirations for, the emerging Moroccan national cinema. When a disgruntled worker kills his superior accidentally, their inquest shifts focus, and they begin to probe the motives of the killing.

About Some Meaningless Events

1974

About Some Meaningless Events poster
6.1

In Casablanca, a group of filmmakers conduct discussions with people about their expectations of, and aspirations for, the emerging Moroccan national cinema. When a disgruntled worker kills his superior accidentally, their inquest shifts focus, and they begin to probe the motives of the killing.

About Some Meaningless Events

1974

About Some Meaningless Events poster
6.1

In Casablanca, a group of filmmakers conduct discussions with people about their expectations of, and aspirations for, the emerging Moroccan national cinema. When a disgruntled worker kills his superior accidentally, their inquest shifts focus, and they begin to probe the motives of the killing.

About Some Meaningless Events

1974

Le Jour du Forain poster
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Moulay Yacoub starts a physical and poetic journey of self-knowledge across Morocco.

Le Jour du Forain

1982

No artwork available
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Directed by Mustapha Derkaoui.

First Fiction

1992

Casablanca by Night poster
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Kaltoum is a 15-year-old girl who is forced to work in a nightclub in Casablanca, Morocco to pay for a medical operation for her little brother. to her dismay she discovers the cruel world, that of the city's nightlife.

Casablanca by Night

2003

Adopcja poster
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No synopsis available yet.

Adopcja

1968

The Beautiful Days of Sheherazade poster
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A team of filmmakers is having difficulty choosing a subject to shoot. After lengthy discussion, they finally decide on the story of Aïcha, a beautiful cabaret singer.

The Beautiful Days of Sheherazade

1982

The Beautiful Days of Sheherazade poster
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A team of filmmakers is having difficulty choosing a subject to shoot. After lengthy discussion, they finally decide on the story of Aïcha, a beautiful cabaret singer.

The Beautiful Days of Sheherazade

1982

No artwork available
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Directed by Mustapha Derkaoui.

(Ga)me in the Past

1994

No artwork available
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The adventures of a man, Brahim, who sets out in search of his son and also the son’s friendship with Kamal.

The Seven Gates of the Night

1994

No artwork available
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A young woman writer constructs a story in which she evokes the memory of a young man who died in the war.

The Great Allegory

1995

The Gulf War... What Next? poster
9.0

The second Gulf War from 1990 to 1991 represents in the collective Arab memory a turning point in regards to the Arab nationalism’s self-perception as well as a moment of deep historical and existential insecurity. Five Arab directors discuss the events from their personal perspective.

The Gulf War... What Next?

1993

The Gulf War... What Next? poster
9.0

The second Gulf War from 1990 to 1991 represents in the collective Arab memory a turning point in regards to the Arab nationalism’s self-perception as well as a moment of deep historical and existential insecurity. Five Arab directors discuss the events from their personal perspective.

The Gulf War... What Next?

1993

Les amours de Hadj Mokhtar Soldi poster
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The film revolves around a comic character in which he sarcastically discusses many of the issues in Moroccan society, with El Hadji El Souledi, a candidate for elections in Casablanca, whose character is a symbol of illegal wealth and moral corruption. His life is divided among bars, nightclubs and prostitution. While the police officer Adel and beautiful names that are associated with the life of the child and trying to get rid of it and corruption so that they succeed in the latter in it.

Les amours de Hadj Mokhtar Soldi

2001

Somewhere on a Given Day poster
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An account of the preparations for the staging of Régis Debray’s Notes on Gramsci directed by Stanisław Tym. A group of international students gathered at Warsaw’s 'Stodoła' club discuss philosophy and politics accompanied by the music of Włodzimierz Nahorny’s quartet.

Somewhere on a Given Day

1971

Somewhere on a Given Day poster
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An account of the preparations for the staging of Régis Debray’s Notes on Gramsci directed by Stanisław Tym. A group of international students gathered at Warsaw’s 'Stodoła' club discuss philosophy and politics accompanied by the music of Włodzimierz Nahorny’s quartet.

Somewhere on a Given Day

1971