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📍Riad Laarouss,18 Derb El Ferrane

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🌴 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝘆𝗲, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗮𝗹𝗺 𝗧𝗿𝗲𝗲

As part of Saison Méditerranée, LE 18 is partnering with Jeu de Paume to extend 𝘓𝘢 𝘕𝘶𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘮é𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘦, Laila Hida’s solo exhibition, curated by Jeanne Mercier. Through films, publications and conversations, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘺𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘢𝘭𝘮 𝘛𝘳𝘦𝘦 explores how images shape places, narratives and desires. From the city as a dreamlike setting of cinema to the palm tree as a displaced, planted and reinvented figure, the programme focuses on mythologised spaces and the imaginaries they produce, between lived landscape and imagined landscape.

@laila_in_transition @jeudepaumeparis

𝗦𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝟭𝟬𝘁𝗵 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿
𝗔𝗥𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗔𝗟𝗠 𝗧𝗥𝗘𝗘, 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗦𝗖𝗔𝗣𝗘 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗖𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗠𝗔

𝟳 𝗽𝗺 - Book Launch : 𝘔𝘦𝘫𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘭, 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘫𝘰𝘰𝘭 by Laila Hida

Published as part of Laila Hida’s exhibition 𝘓𝘢 𝘕𝘶𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘮é𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘦 with Jeu de Paume, 𝘔𝘦𝘫𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘭, 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘫𝘰𝘰𝘭 extends the artist’s research into the date palm, its displacements and the cinematic imaginaries it has shaped between Morocco and California.

𝟴.𝟯𝟬 𝗽𝗺 - Screening of 𝘚𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘒𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘢 by Laila Hida (2025) 
Shot on 16 mm, the video evokes a landscape between oases, desert and trans-Saharan crossings. Though the landscape never fully appears, it reveals itself through an array of characters who project themselves into it, recount it or cross it. It thus takes shape for the viewer as an imaginary geography, where memory, desire and resistance coexist.

𝟵 𝗽𝗺 - Screening of 𝘍𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘞𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳, 𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘍𝘪𝘳𝘦 by Terra Long (2023) @_terrapin  
Terra Long’s first feature film explores California’s Coachella Valley, an agricultural territory shaped by the cultivation of date palms, economic transformations, immigration policies and climate change. Filmed on 16 mm and hand-developed using local plants, the film inscribes the landscape into its very materiality.

An evening bringing into dialogue two territories shaped by the date palm - Morocco and California - and two approaches to using cinema as a tool to observe and shape the landscape. taken in 18, derb el ferrane by @le18marrakech

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🌴 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝘆𝗲, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗮𝗹𝗺 𝗧𝗿𝗲𝗲

Dans le cadre de la Saison Méditerranée, LE 18 s’associe au Jeu de Paume pour prolonger 𝘓𝘢 𝘕𝘶𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘮é𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘦, l’exposition solo de Laila Hida, avec le commissariat de Jeanne Mercier. À travers films, publications et conversations, The Eye, the City and the Palm Tree explore la manière dont les images fabriquent des lieux, des récits et des désirs. De la ville comme décor rêvé du cinéma au palmier comme figure déplacée, plantée et réinventée, le programme s’intéresse aux espaces mythifiés et aux imaginaires qu’ils produisent, entre paysage vécu et paysage fantasmé.

@jeudepaumeparis @laila_in_transition

𝗩𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗥𝗘𝗗𝗜 𝟵 𝗢𝗖𝗧𝗢𝗕𝗥𝗘
𝗖𝗔𝗦𝗔𝗕𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗔, « 𝗩𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗘-𝗥𝗘̂𝗩𝗘 » 𝗔𝗨 𝗣𝗥𝗜𝗦𝗠𝗘 𝗗𝗨 𝗖𝗜𝗡𝗘́𝗠𝗔

𝟭𝟵.𝟬𝟬 Rencontre autour du livre 𝘊𝘪𝘯é𝘊𝘢𝘴𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘢 : 𝘭𝘢 𝘝𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘯 100 𝘧𝘪𝘭𝘮𝘴, de Roland Carrée et Rabéa Ridaoui
@roland_carree @rabearidaoui

𝟮𝟭.𝟬𝟬 Projection du film Casablanca de Michael Curtiz (1942) (VO, STFR)

Étroitement associée au cinéma, Casablanca doit en partie son imaginaire mondial au film hollywoodien 𝘊𝘢𝘴𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘢, tourné ailleurs mais devenu une référence du 7e Art. Cette représentation romantique a contribué à mythifier la ville et continue d’influencer son attractivité culturelle et touristique.

La rencontre propose de mettre cette image en regard des représentations de Casablanca dans le cinéma marocain, notamment chez Abdelkader Lagtaâ, Nour-Eddine Lakhmari et Nabil Ayouch, où la ville apparaît traversée par ses réalités sociales et ses transformations. Une conversation entre cinéma, patrimoine urbain et fabrication de l’imaginaire. taken in 18, derb el ferrane by @le18marrakech

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7 days ago

🌗 MOKHTABAR PHOTOZINE مختبر

Mokhtabar Photozine is the outcome of the workshops conceived as part of @maidelaphotomarrakech 2026 with the youth of Dar Bellarj.

Across the pages of the zine, the medina of Marrakech unfolds through the perception of its young inhabitants, their memories, their sense of space, and the intersections between them. Personal memory meets a collective one, with Dar Bellarj at its center.

The four-day workshop covered different aspects of analogue film development, photographic processes, film formats, shooting, negative processing, darkroom printing and analogue-to-digital process.

Mokhtabar photozine sits at the meeting of the unseen and the seen, the light and darkness, the individual experience of the image and its collective resonance.

The photozine is available for sale at LE 18 bookstore and Dar Bellarj.

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Participants :
Chams-eddine Mohadabe, Rkia Zidany, Ismail Bouanan, Nafia Alkou, Abdellah Kamba, Soulaymane El bizar

Workshop facilitators:
@salaheddine.elbouaaichi , @yassellame and @joseph_jose89

With Thanks to:
@darbellarj , @azizbouyabrine , @hiba_dahibi & @rania_otm

📸 S 1. 2. 8. 9. 10. 12 : @joseph_jose89
📸 S 3 : @yassellame taken in 18, derb el ferrane by @le18marrakech

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16 days ago

☀️And that’s a wrap for the summer!

As we close our doors for the holiday, we want to thank you for being part of our journey this season. We wish you a summer filled with rest, joy, laughter, and beautiful moments with your loved ones. We’ll be back on September with exciting new programs. 🤍🌻

📸 @itsfek taken in 18, derb el ferrane by @le18marrakech

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2 months ago

Moments from the 2nd Fellowship Colloquium 💜

Last week, the 2025/2026 NAAS Research Fellows gathered for their second and final in-person Colloquium at @le18marrakech. They were joined by their Fellowship mentor @omarbrrd, NAAS’s director Nada Bakr, and the wonderful LE 18 team.

After months of research under @omarbrrd’s mentorship, the fellows’ work is now taking public form.

@idtnaineomar opened his exhibition on Tamazight-language cinema in Morocco, tracing decades of grassroots efforts to preserve films long left out of the country’s official film history.

@nouayda also presented her public program on translation in film. Through screenings and conversation, she explored subtitles not as neutral tools, but as their own creative and contested terrain.

@amelk_ and Kalfat shared their public program plans with the group and gathered feedback ahead of their own presentations.

The week also included workshops, a visit to Mostafa Dziri’s apartment, an evening at the Dar al-Ma’mûn library, a tour of @darbellarj by the director of the foundation @maha_el_madi, and of the Archéologies exhibition by curator and founder of @le18marrakech, @laila_in_transition 💛

Stay tuned for more details on each fellow’s program soon. Huge thanks to LE 18 for hosting us throughout the week! taken in Marrakech, Morocco by @le18marrakech

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2 months ago

🪽On Artistic Freedom: Films and Conversation

Wednesday, 29 July
20:30 at LE 18 Marrakech

Join us for an evening exploring artistic freedom, creative practices, and the place of artists in society through three short films by El Mahdi Lyoubi programmed by Film W Glissa :

Marseille, 14 juillet (9’)
Qui fout le Zbeul? (13’)
Hors Cadre (18’43 »)

The screenings will be followed by a moderated conversation bringing together members of the Dardachabab collective, artist, cultural producer and sound engineer Marwa Belahbib, and a representative of the Moroccan Association for Human Rights (AMDH).

The discussion will explore the legal, cultural, and social dimensions of artistic freedom, as well as the questions and challenges artists encounter when navigating freedom of expression today.

Stills from « Qui fout le Zbeul?! »

على الحرية الفنية: أفلام ونقاش

الأربعاء 29 يوليوز
20:30 ف LE 18

مرحبا بكم معنا فواحد الأمسية لي غادي نهضرو فيها على الحرية الفنية، الإبداع، وبلاصة الفنانين فالمجتمع، من خلال عرض ثلاثة أفلام قصيرة ديال المهدي ليوبي:

Marseille, 14 juillet (9’) Qui fout le Zbeul?! (13’) Hors Cadre (18’43”)

من بعد العروض، غادي يكون نقاش كيسيروه، بمشاركة أعضاء من كولكتيف دردشباب، الفنانة والمنتجة الثقافية مروى بالحبيب، وممثل(ة) عن الجمعية المغربية لحقوق الإنسان (AMDH).

فهاد النقاش غادي نهضرو على شنو كتعني الحرية الفنية اليوم، من الناحية القانونية، الثقافية والاجتماعية، وغادي نهضرو حتى على الأسئلة والتحديات اللي كيصادفوها الفنانين والفنانات ملي كيعبرّو بحرية على أفكارهم وأعمالهم.

لقطة من فيلم « Qui fout le Zbeul ?! » by @le18marrakech

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2 months ago

Songs of Opacity // أناشيد العتامة // ⵉⵣⵍⴰⵏ ⵏ ⵜⴰⵍⵍⴰⵙⵜ

23 - 25 July 2026
At LE 18

[For Arabic and Tamazight check pinned comments]

Entitled Songs of Opacity, this second iteration of the Complicity and Conspiracy in Film Translation program follows the program's first edition in Beirut in March 2025. It suggests the audio-visual medium as a space that can host the complex and nuanced interactions between the oral and the written. Rather than providing an unquestioned access to another language, the films in this edition focus the subtitle as a threshold of connection and meaning in unusual and unexpected ways.

Link in bio for detailed information on the program and the films.

This program is curated by Nour Ouayda in collaboration with LE 18 and Omar Berrada and is realized in the framework of NAAS’ curatorial fellowship 2025-2026.

Arabic translations: Mahammad Hoogla-Kalfat
Tamazight translations: Omar Moujane
Visual design: Meryem Fekhari taken in 18, derb el ferrane by @le18marrakech

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3 months ago

ⵣ TIFINAGH ON SCREEN

This exhibition is curated by Omar Idtnaine
in collaboration with LE 18 and Omar Berrada,
realised in the framework of NAAS’ curatorial fellowship 2025–2026.

@idtnaineomar @omarbrrd @naas_network

EXHIBITION OPENING
Thursday, 23ʳᵈ July 2026

6pm - 9pm
at LE 18 Marrakech

23.07 – 30.07.2026

“Tifinagh on Screen” is more than just a title; it is a statement of presence. The emergence of the first Amazigh film in 1991 was not a mere cinematic experiment, but a historic moment in which the region’s most ancient script became intertwined with the motion of image and sound. This exhibition, arising from an in-depth research project on “Reclaiming Archives as Counter-History” funded by NAAS (Network of Arab Alternative Screens), traces the fragile yet persistent trajectory of this cinema: born from individual initiatives, far from institutional support, yet able to carve out its own audience and memory.

From early films like “Tamghart Ourgh” to contemporary productions, the exhibition presents visual, audio, and textual documents that have long remained in the shadows. It pays tribute to the efforts of producers, directors, actors, and screenwriters whose work constitutes an essential chapter in Morocco’s cinematic and cultural history. Through posters, photographs, VHS and VCD covers, and never-before-seen archival materials, “Tifinagh on Screen” tells the story of cultural resistance and identity affirmation.

The exhibition also explores the production and distribution conditions of this parallel cinema, its technological evolution, the role of audiences and associations in its sustainability, and the current challenges it faces. It affirms that a Morocco open to itself is one that embraces the diversity of its cultures, without hierarchy among languages and memories, and that this diversity is an inexhaustible source of collective wealth. by @le18marrakech

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3 months ago

📢 OPEN CALL
RESIDENCY IN LISBON FOR MOROCCAN ARTISTS

As part of the cross-residency program between HANGAR, Lisbon and LE 18, Marrakech, HANGAR will host a Moroccan artist-in-residence in Lisbon for one month.

The residency at HANGAR is open to artists from a range of disciplines, including visual arts, performance, photography and video. Applicants must be individual artists residing in Morocco and professionally active in the arts.

We encourage applications from artists eager to bridge national and international viewpoints through cross-cultural dialogue and engagement with the local context.

Full details and the application form are available in the call document (Link in Bio).

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➤ APPLICATION DEADLINE: August 15th, 2026.

➤ WHEN: One month, 16 November to 16 December 2026.

➤ FINANCIAL SUPPORT:
A stipend of 800 euros will be provided to cover living expenses related to the stay. Return flights between Morocco and Lisbon are covered, and administrative support for the visa application is provided. The selected artist is responsible for their insurance, meals, and production costs.

➤ SELECTION PROCESS:
A joint committee of LE 18 and HANGAR will assess the applications.

➤ APPLICATION:
The full call and the application form link are in the linked document (Link in Bio). The application must be written in English. by @le18marrakech

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3 months ago

Throwback to the 3rd edition of Artivism program!

Artivism opened with a first morning session dedicated to welcome and connection.

Participants gathered at Le 18 Marrakech for the opening remarks, followed by an introduction circle to get to know the artists, their backgrounds, and the artistic disciplines they will be exploring throughout the program.

Artivism is organized by The Olive Writers Association and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, in partnership with Le 18 Marrakech.

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افتُتح برنامج أرتفيزم بحصّة صباحيّةٍ أولى خُصِّصت للتّرحيب والتّعارف.

اجتمع المشاركون في فضاء Le 18 Marrakech من أجل الكلمة الافتتاحيّة، ثمّ جلسة تعارف بين الفنّانين بغية تسليط الضّوء على خلفيّاتهم وتخصّصاتهم الفنّية التي سيشتغلون عليها خلال البرنامج.

يُنظَّم برنامج Artivism من طرف جمعية The Olive Writers ومؤسّسة فريدريش ناومان من أجل الحرّية، بشراكة مع Le 18 Marrakech.

@fnfmaroc @le18marrakech

Pictures by artist @charaf.lahib @lahib_studio by @le18marrakech

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4 months ago

ATELIER
Création visuelle & initiation à la musique interactive
avec KYF! @kyftheband

MERCREDI 3 JUIN
14:00 📍LE 18

KYF! vous invite à un atelier transdisciplinaire, un espace de rencontre, d’expérimentation et d’échange autour de la création visuelle, de la musique et de la technologie. À travers le Mandala comme fil conducteur, l’atelier se déploie en plusieurs temps : la découverte d’un jeu vidéo artistique où son et image se répondent, un temps de création collective, l’intégration de vos dessins dans le jeu via scan et codage, et enfin une initiation à un instrument interactif et démonstration avec les musiciens de KYF!

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KYF! est un groupe transdisciplinaire de Bayonne qui réunit musique, arts visuels et technologie dans des espaces qu’ils appellent des dômes.

Les places sont limitées. 🔗 Inscription via le lien en bio.

S2 © Mathias_Bracho
S4 © Julia de la Guerre by @le18marrakech

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4 months ago

Eid Mubarak 🐑 From all of our team at LE 18, we wish you a beautiful Eid al-Adha surrounded by love, family, and blessings 🤍
LE 18 will be closed for the holiday and will reopen on June 2nd.

📸 Jalal Bouhsain @oddy.see by @le18marrakech

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5 months ago