The Moroccan cinema is a cinema of will: that of directors confronted to the fighter itinerary to complete their project; that of the actors living modestly on their art; that of the authorities doing their best in spite of priorities; that of institutional partners who believe in the power of the image and in the social and cultural role of film-makes.

With the National Film Festival (NFF), a new will has emerged, that of creating the necessary combined energy of the private and the public sectors to find the financial alternative to all activities contributing to developing the Moroccan cinema: production, distribution, management, vocational training in film-making and audio-visual occupations.

In this perspective, it seems also needful to consolidate the basis of the National Film Festival through a regular production and an enlarged financing to insure regularity for a sustained acquisition of the Moroccan cinema, and more generally of cultural values.

A long path has already been taken by the NFF since its inception in 1982; in fact the Festival survived to all episodes of its life. At this Seventh Festival, it blows its twenty candles, an age where teenage mistakes are rectified to consolidate assets and better direct future actions.

This means that time for amateurism and about approaches is over – for ever and since a long time. It is time for professionalism and self discipline marked by the seal of the new technologies of information and communication.

At a time when we resolutely step into the new world, the NFF wishes to take the place it deserves that is asserting itself as the link in the unseperate chain of Morocco’s film-making. Film-makers are then called to take their responsibility for a real growing of the Moroccan cinema. Under this condition only, Morocco through its cinema, could prevail wherever he is requested.