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Filmmaker · Morocco

Mostafa Derkaoui

Died in 2026

Mostafa Derkaoui was born in Oujda on 12 November 1944. A baccalauréat holder in philosophy in 1962, he attended the drama conservatoire in Casablanca, then spent a brief time at IDHEC in Paris. In 1965 he entered, with his brother Abdelkrim, the film school in Łódź, Poland, from which he graduated in directing in 1972. Back in Casablanca, he founded the company Basma Production with this brother in 1974; Morocco World News counts him among the most prolific Moroccan filmmakers of the eighties and nineties. He died in Casablanca on 20 August 2026.

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