For this 12th Marrakech International Film Festival (FIFM), we have received the greatest of encouragements as well as the clearest possible roadmap for the coming years. His Majesty King Mohammed VI undertook this task himself by addressing a powerful Royal Message to the National Cinema Conference on October 16, 2012.

For me, who, last year at the 11th FIFM, on behalf of the Festival Foundation, committed myself to taking responsibility “increasingly [for] the future of the nation’s cinema, with its most promising aspects: its creativity and diversity”...