Moroccan director Mohammed Mouftakir's "L'Orchestre des Aveugles" (The Blind Orchestra) took the Tanit d'Or at the Carthage Film Festival, blighted earlier in the week by a suicide bombing in the Tunisian capital.
Ridley Scott's biblical epic Exodus has been banned in Morocco, provoking an angry response by politicians and filmmakers in this North African country.
A public funding mechanism modeled on the French system has helped boost film-making in the north African country in the past decade. And the Tangier National Film Awards along with the Marrakech Film Festival provide emerging filmmakers with a stepping stone.
Casablanca Camerawoman, winner of the PUMA Creative Catalyst Award at Durban FilmMart, premieres on Wednesday, 13 November 2013 at 20:00 GMT on Witness, Al Jazeera's flagship documentary strand.
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