Director: Khalil ahasni
Nationality: Morocco
Director Bio: Khalil Ahasni, a young researcher in Moroccan cinema and popular arts from the Maghreb region, is more inclined towards documentary filmmaking. Having earned a master s degree in Genomics and Bioinformatics from Mohammed 5 University Rabat, Khalil is part of the organizing team of the university club 7th Art FSR. The club hosts film screenings, workshops, and masterclasses, featuring various Moroccan filmmakers such as Mr. Abderrahmane Tazi, the young director Anas El Hatimi, and others. His participation in numerous events since 2021 has provided him with opportunities to meet prominent Moroccan filmmakers like Mostafa Derkaoui, Krimou Derkaoui, Izza Genini, and other notable figures in the field of filmmaking. Khalil has attended several writing and directing workshops. Khalil contributed to the creation of a representative video on Moroccan cinema for the platform Shashamovies and produced several videos, including More than 60 years of Moroccan cinema. He was invited to the Marrakech International Film Festival in 2022 and directed his first short film in 2023 titled THE WOMAN I SEE. And two other films “THE LAMENT FOR ICARUS” and “RAMBLINGS OF REVOLUTIONARY” all these movies were self produced He served as an assistant director for the short film Amal directed by Doha Essafsafy in 2023, worked as a screenwriter for the short film Fatima, the Magic Brush directed by Othman EL Qoq, and was a documentarian for the short film Sami, the Wet Jersey. In late 2023, Khalil was selected along with two other self-taught filmmakers to participate in the Storyline documentary writing workshop funded by “Maghrebian Art Company”, the “Drosos Foundation”, and supported by the “Racines Carrées” incubator in Casablanca
