Ahmed Bouanani

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1938-11-16

Deathday 2011-02-06 (72 years old)

Place of Birth Casablanca, Morocco

Also Known As أحمد البوعناني

Ahmed Bouanani

Biography

Ahmed Bouanani (Casablanca, 16 November 1938 - Demnate, 6 February 2011) was a Moroccan film director, poet and novelist. He was best known from the 1979 film The Mirage, which featured as no.61 on the list of the best and most important 100 Arabic films commissioned by the 10th Dubai International Film Festival in 2013. In 1983 he also made a comic strip for the newspaper Al Maghrib. In addition to filmmaking, Bouanini wrote three collections of poetry and one novel, The Hospital, translated into English by Lara Vergnaud and published by New Directions in 2018.

Known For

Director

1979
Mirage

as Director

1977
The Four Sources

as Director

1971
Memory 14

as Director

1968
Six and Twelve

as Director

Editor

1979
Mirage

as Editor

1978
al-Kanfoudi

as Editor

1971
Memory 14

as Editor

1971
Traces

as Editor

1970
1968
Six and Twelve

as Editor

Writer

2024
The snail

as Original Film Writer

2008
The Shell Necklace

as Scenario Writer

2002
Wind Horse

as Writer

1979
Mirage

as Writer

1977
1977
The Four Sources

as Screenplay

1968
Six and Twelve

as Writer