Catalogue des films de « Izza Génini »

A story of Arabo-Andalusian music form of which Nuba could be seen as the symphonic form. In the image of a musical tree, its branches are nourished by a sap that, for the past 14 centuries, rose from the fringes of Morocco and currents of Arabia,...

Starting from the series "Morocco Body and Soul" that is composed of 10 films of 26 minutes, describes a musical journey going from the Berbers to Nass El Ghiwane, through The Gnawas, the Sufis, the Andalus, the Aïta of the Cheikhate, the...

"The drums were everywhere. There were round ones, flat ones, pot-bellied ones... There were tiny ones and huge ones like those played by the musicians who came to turn beneath our windows in Casablanca..." Using the omnipresent percussion during...

The origin of all the citrus fruits, the citron appeared in the Himalayas before spreading across continents and thousands of years. Symbol of fertility for Buddhists, immortality for the Greeks, for the Hebrews it is the fruit of splendour...

In Morocco, as in many other North African countries, art is practised on a daily basis and on everyday objects. One such artist is a woman, a "neggaffa", whose mission and vocation is the beauty of women and children. She is a fairy, a magician,...

Feast, Pilgrimage or Souk, the Moussem is the most popular and the most regular Moroccan event. The one of Moulay Abdallah is the most renowned for its Fantasia. It gathers every year around one thousand horses and their magnificent horsemen....

Synagogue des Tournelles, Paris, juin 1995 : Izza Génini filme ce concert exceptionnel de Hazanoute, musique sacrée juive. Treize vocalistes de renom, des chœurs et un orchestre oriental (violon, luth, darbouka, canoune et guitare) révèlent...

One day in March 1992, I took up the challenge of trying to reunite my scattered relatives back in Oulad Moumen, south of Marrakech, the place where my parents had first founded the family. It was as if this return to the past caused the...

In the Middle Atlas, near Kenifra, the tribes Zayane and Ichker get together for the performance of the mythical nuptials of Asliand Taslit, the Fiancé and the Fiancée. As alive symbolsof the living forces of the vegetation, they embody all...

In the High Atlas, when one climbs up the sinewy trail leading to the Ayt Bou Gmez valley, all sign of modern life fades away, leaving man alone with the sky and earth and nothing between. Water is the element around which the essential gestures...