
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
NRA film that describes how someone who is haunted by the idea of death learns to suffer.
Provisional Title
1984
NRLibrement Mostafa Derkaoui
Librement Mostafa Derkaoui
2023
NRSettling of scores among international Marxist revolutionaries. A spirit of Mhedi Ben Barka inspired revolt.
A Shadow Among Others
1969
Behind the camera
NRA film that describes how someone who is haunted by the idea of death learns to suffer.
Provisional Title
1984
NRA film that describes how someone who is haunted by the idea of death learns to suffer.
Provisional Title
1984
NRDirected by Abdelkrim Derkaoui et al.
Cinders of the Vineyard
1977
6.1In 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
6.1In 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
6.1In 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
NRMoulay Yacoub starts a physical and poetic journey of self-knowledge across Morocco.
Le Jour du Forain
1982
Directed by Mustapha Derkaoui.
First Fiction
1992
NRKaltoum 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
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Adopcja
1968
NRA 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
NRA 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
Directed by Mustapha Derkaoui.
(Ga)me in the Past
1994
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
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
9.0The 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
9.0The 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
NRThe 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
NRAn 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
NRAn 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
