ABSTRACT
There was some amateur film-making in the Maghreb both before and after the first professional features were produced. In Morocco, for example, Mohamed Osfour (b. 1927) – who was later to make one of the pioneering Moroccan features, al-Kinz alJahannamy / Le trésor infernal / The Devil’s Treasure (1970) – was active from the 1940s, transposing figures from international mass culture (such as Robin Hood or Tarzan) into local settings. Later, in Algeria in the 1980s, Abdelhamid Benamra attracted attention with a number of Super 8 films made while he was still a teenager.
