The Amazigh Film Festival (Amazigh: Tafaska n Ufilm Amazigh) is a non-governmental and independent film festival organized by Amazigh cultural associations and independent / amateur Amazigh filmmakers in Morocco. The festival does not receive any financial support from any outside party at all. The media coverage of the festival in Morocco is limited to Amazigh language newspapers and websites. The festival intends to contribute to the promotion of Amazigh Cinema and to the resolution of the financial and technical problems encountering the Amazigh film. It aims to promoting the Amazigh culture which is heavily under pressure in Morocco and Algeria where foreign cultures like the French and Middle Eastern Arabic cultures dominate the mainstream cultural and artistic scene.
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“Three times a year all your males shall appear before the LORD your God at the place that he will choose: at the festival of unleavened bread, at the festival of weeks, and at the festival of booths. They shall not appear before the LORD empty-handed; all shall give as they are able, according to the blessing of the LORD your God that he has given you.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 16:16,17.
“Marry, I cannot show it in rhyme, I have tried; I can find no rhyme to “lady” but “baby”Man innocent rhyme; for “scorn,” “horn”Ma hard rhyme; for “school,” “fool”Ma babbling rhyme; very ominous endings. No, I was not born under a rhyming planet, nor I cannot woo in festival terms.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Television does not dominate or insist, as movies do. It is not sensational, but taken for granted. Insistence would destroy it, for its message is so dire that it relies on being the background drone that counters silence. For most of us, it is something turned on and off as we would the light. It is a service, not a luxury or a thing of choice.”
—David Thomson, U.S. film historian. America in the Dark: The Impact of Hollywood Films on American Culture, ch. 8, William Morrow (1977)