Mr. Driss El Yazami, President of the Council for the Moroccan Community Abroad (CCME), talks about the importance of the cinematographic representation of immigration. This interview was part of the seminar on “Images, cinema and migration”, organised by the CCME -15th november 2024- during the Agadir Film and Migration Festival.
In this conversation, Mr. El Yazami, explores the critical importance of cinema in narrating the experiences of migration. He discusses the impact of cinema in terms of preserving collective collective memory, the transmission of culture, as well as its ability to transform both social and political reality.