Moroccan film week opens in Abidjan to boost coproduction
Ivory Coast and Morocco aim to move from film screenings to joint creation and investment.
The sixth Moroccan film week opened on Monday, November 2, 2026, at the Majestic cinema in Abidjan. The event aims to strengthen partnerships between Ivory Coast and Morocco through joint creation, production, and financing of film projects.
Representing the Minister of Culture, Pr Hien Sié called for a shift from cooperative representation to cooperative creation, production, and investment. He emphasized leveraging the complementary strengths of both film industries and proposed a portfolio of jointly conceived Ivorian-Moroccan film projects with shared financing.
Morocco's Ambassador to Ivory Coast, Othmane El Ferdaous, reaffirmed the embassy's support for artist and technician mobility between the two nations. The director general of Côte d’Ivoire Cinéma, Johnson Lison Fall, stressed the need to implement the 2011 coproduction agreement into permanent collaboration mechanisms.
Why it mattersThe event seeks to foster collaboration and shared investment in film production between Ivory Coast and Morocco.