The Council of the Moroccan Community Abroad (CCME) is supporting the Documentary film ‘Les 1001 jours du Hajj Edmond’ by French-Moroccan director Simone Bitton. The documentary will be screened on 30 November 2024 at the Palais des Congrès, as part of the Marrakech International Film Festival (FIFM).
The support of the CCME is part of its mission to promote works that celebrate Morocco's history and diversity, while at the same time building bridges between generations and cultures.
The documentary-film traces the life of Edmond Amran El Maleh, a Moroccan writer, philosopher and activist, born in 1917 in Safi of a Jewish family originally from Essaouira. An advocate of Moroccan independence, a leading figure of the Communist Party, and later an art critic and committed author who has left his mark on the intellectual and cultural landscape of Morocco.
Simone Bitton's documentary explores themes running through Elmaleh's life: exodus of Moroccan Jews, defence of the Palestinian cause, and his profound devotion to a plural Moroccan identity. The author of a literature that blends tradition and modernity, pain and resilience, El Maleh has been described as the ‘cantor of Tamghribit’.
‘’Les 1001 jours du Hajj Edmond‘’ will screen on 30 November 2024, at the Palais des Congrès, as part of the Marrakech International Film Festival (FIFM), at 15h15.
