Carthage Film Festival 2004: IN CASABLANCA, ANGELS DON’T FLY Wins Top Award
Mohammed Asli’s In Casablanca, Angels Don’t Fly (above), was the winner of the Gold Tanit for best film at the 20th edition of the biennial Carthage Film Festival in Tunisia. In Casablanca, Angels Don’t Fly depicts the plight of three migrant Berber workers who try to eke out a living in Morocco’s largest city.
Among the other pictures shown at Carthage were In the Battlefields by Lebanon’s Danielle Arbid; the Egyptian-made I Love Cinema, by Oussama Faouzi, which tells the story of a young boy’s love for movies in an environment of strict religious intolerance (the film is Egypt’s entry for the 2005 Academy Awards); and Zaman, Man of the Reeds by Iraq’s Amer [...]
by Andre Soares | October 16, 2004
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Tags: Carthage Film Festival, Film Awards, Film Festivals, In Casablanca Angels Don't Fly, Mohammed Asli, Omar Sharif, Oussama Faouzi, Youssef Chahine
