put a spotlight on the North African country’s documentary film scene and its artists.
“Before the Dying of the Light” has been a dream project for Essafi, who was working as a filmmaker in France when he first made the realization that he knew little about the history of cinema in his homeland. “I started researching this film 10 years ago,” he recalls, although he had his work cut out to find both the material and the classic films. “In Morocco, we don’t have access to archives,” he says.
Looking back, what’s remarkable about Moroccan cinema in the 1970s is the extraordinary efforts that filmmakers would go to in order to make their films, despite the huge personal risk to themselves. In his film, Essafi cleverly tells the story about the secret screenings and banning of “About Some Meaningless Events” by weaving archive material with narration from Derkaoui, who was released 11 years into his sentence.
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