- silence

- And now cinema, with a gallery of world stars for the youngest film festival in Marrakech,

- Francis Ford Coppola, David Lynch, Jeanne Moreau, Catherine Deneuve, a fetival which aims to be a bridge

- between filmmakers from south and north and wants to reconcile Moroccans with cinema,

- as they tend to desert it.

- A report by Sabine Gorni and Jean Cristophe Duclos.

- Stars and glitter, a cinephile king, a queen among the jet set, a true one thousand and one nights palace all illuminated to welcome stars.

- Marrakech this week looked like the Croisette, a royal set. Tails, Morocco, new Eldorado of world cinema,

- with 4 studios in Ouarzazate in the south of the country where biggest box office hits are shot.

- Heads, a cinema in crisis, in 10 years half of theaters closed, piracy is to blame, but more over the overpriced entrance tickets,

- popular theaters like this one resist somehow, 8 dirhams, 5 francs, we drink we smoke and come to divert ourselves with sentimental Indian films.

- These love stories help us to communicate with girls.

- Much less exotic, more chic, this beautiful theater of 750 seats renovated at great expense,

- comfort, air conditioning, nothing changes, it is often deserted.

- Ticket prices are 4-5 times lower than in Europe,

- which means that for a theater like this to be profitable we need to sell 6 times more tickets.

- Cinema in search of identity, a dozen of small budget films are shot here every year,

- they talk about everything except religion and monarchy, still taboo, each time they beat a record of entrances.

- I think today Moroccans ask to see themselves in movies, movies that tell their stories,

- the History of Morocco, all Moroccan films work by the way.

- Cinema, mirror of a changing society, behind the camera a generation of talented young movie makers

- but often trained in doing or abroad, there is no film school in Morocco.

- There are professions in cinema that are absolutely absent, that is to say there is no chief operator in Morocco,

- there is no sound engineer for example, there are very few writers.

- That evening, on the main square of Marrakesh, the crowd kept away enjoyed Festival’s crumbs,

- free outdoor screenings, with the moon as a projector.