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“Asmahane” recounts the story of a Lebanese girl who fled her country after losing her family to war, to become a belly dancer in Morocco, fitting in seamlessly into the north African country’s culture. The events take place in a scary Casablanca, where the main character, a Christian Lebanese woman, forges connections with Moroccans on her way to look for a better life.
A poor young man wins the lottery, and very quickly becomes coveted by those close to him in his family and in his neighborhood, each wanting their share of the pie. When a crook gets involved and tries to take his fortune, the older brother puts a drug in his drink to get rid of him.
Fleetingly all a person remembers about their experiences are images and fragments from the past.
In Morocco, a widely-accepted account fills the air, about three local fishermen who drowned at sea - allegedly after attaining visions of a mysterious woman who beckoned them to their deaths. As director Hakim Belabbes's feature Why, O Sea? opens, this chain of events seems poised to repeat itself in the life of a similar fisherman, Said. Day after day, he journeys into the sea, with his friends, to retrieve his daily catch. For better or worse, Said and his pals are seemingly bound to their occupation for life and enmeshed in crude, centuries-old techniques for plying their trades. When Said - like the unfortunate predecessors - also begins spotting a female presence who appears everywhere, calling ceaselessly to him, his mother grows sick at the thought that this may be a maritime apparition determined to lure him to a watery grave.
"Requiem for Tears" invites viewers to traverse the ethereal realms of contemplation. Within its mystical embrace, this exquisite work of art delves deep into the profound questions that haunt the human spirit—death, existence, the intrinsic worth of life, and the kaleidoscope of its intricate meanings.
Brahim comes from nowhere. He arrives in a village and presents himself "I am a slave for sale," he says. But, for these villagers, the thing is unacceptable.
Garden of Eden, jardin à la française, English, Zen, Bahai, Arab-Islamic: Gardens reflect history, culture and heritage. They are some of the rare places where intimacy, gatherings, fun and religion coexist. And, what if Paradise was nothing more than a green parking lot designed to suit each and everyone's own preferences?
The story of kharboucha tha AITA singer who rebels against the injustice with her songs .
The story revolves around Gohar and his friend Faraji, whose lives change drastically when they discover a mysterious manuscript containing a cunning genie named Zaazou, with whom they embark on a bizarre adventure to fulfill 100 wishes.
For Zahira, school offers a real chance to realize her dreams and to build a better life than her parents have had. Zahira dreams of becoming a teacher. But is dreaming enough to succeed?
The film Jeux et Rêves d’Enfants by Hakim Belabbes offers a poetic and sensitive portrayal of children’s world. Through their games, dreams, and memories, the film explores their imagination, emotions, and hopes for the future. It highlights the innocence of childhood and the richness of children’s inner lives.
Thursday 19 January 1984, the day of riots that resulted in many casualties. Tonight, Khamis is ready to share a nice moment with his wife. Suddenly, they’re interrupted by gunshots that ring out in the street, followed by the appearance of an unexpected guest at their doorstep.
In the remote town of Tarfaya, Morocco, a mysterious epidemic emerges, causing residents to fall into an inexplicable deep sleep.
The story of a woman suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and her childhood love — told in parallel with that of a commander, a veteran of the Sand War, who wishes to reconnect with his daughter and mend the pieces of a lost love.
Morocco, 1975. In the midst of the Cold War, a young Vietnamese man arrives at the port of Casablanca with his truck. The customs officers are intrigued, surprised by his Arabic name: Ahmed Nour. Suspicious, one of the officers decides to follow Ahmed, who claims to be looking for his father, a veteran of the Indochina wars, missing for three years. Together, they travel from Casablanca to the Atlas Mountains, discovering cultural similarities between Ahmed and Moroccans. Upon arriving in a village, Ahmed believes he has found the place where his father died, and is greeted with suspicion by a family who believes he has come to claim his inheritance.
A man prepares to end his life, but as the final moment nears, memories begin to surface fragments of his past tied to emotions he once felt. He recalls love, regret, and loneliness, each memory pulling him deeper into reflection. Time becomes fluid as he questions whether his pain has always outweighed the meaning of life. With every glimpse of the past, he faces the ultimate decision: is there still something worth holding onto, or has his fate already been sealed?
Two labels and one person, how could their personality fluctuate and try to balance out who they are and who they aspire to be? get inside a journey of identity with The 3robi Ninja
A charity association contacts the best of french farmers spoecializing in chicken to come to the aid of a morocan familu who no longer manages to have chicks. A meeting between two worlds takes place in love, respect and humor.
The first Nass El Ghiwane Artistic Soiree was broadcast on national television.
Shocked by the video of a woman who sets herself on fire, Ali, a young computer scientist, becomes a whistleblower to elicit empathy and rouse his stagnant society.
Ismail is an 8 year old child living with his sister in a mud house in the Atlas Mountains. After the death of their parents, the sister insists on him to continue his education. However, she loses control over his life, when he starts to live his life the way he wants to.
From 1958 to 1959, the inhabitants of the Rifian provinces suffered fierce repression in response to their uprising against their economic and social situation. In their eyes, the central power has destroyed their political, social and economic structure. Fear has been installed for more than 50 years and creates a real taboo around the subject.
In a rapidly growing Moroccan city, an influential group of politicians and powerful businessmen orchestrates a Machiavellian plan: they manipulate Nabil, a petty pickpocket, into becoming a supposed political activist. They propel him to the head of the town hall with a simple objective: to use his position to serve their interests by swindling the city's inhabitants.
The documentary explores the cultural memory of Morocco through the testimonies of artistic figures such as Paul Bowles, Mohamed Choukri or Mohamed Mrabet.
Since the 1950s, the management of Charbonnages de France has called on Félix Mora, a recruiter and former Indigenous Affairs officer in the French army in Morocco. For twenty years, Mora brought more than 70,000 people from southern Morocco to France to work in the mines of Nord-Pas-de-Calais. Mora is there shows the stories of former Moroccan miners. It explores their little-known history and highlights poignant stories of the fight against discrimination, physical dangers and socio-economic precarity. It thus paints a complex picture of the resilience and courage of these miners in the face of the intense challenges they experienced
The story of a man whose brother dies and tries to steal his inheritance and deprive his brother's wife and daughter from it (tachelhit film)
A visual poem magnifying the Amazigh culture, a historical tale about the seismology of the city of Agadir and a story about our planet earth itself and its own life, created for the Museum of the Reconstruction of Agadir.
They had taken part in the glorious Green March in 1975. They had wanted to reach the town of Laâyoune. But their journey had stopped at the edge of the town of Tarfaya. 45 years later, they decided to take a trip back in time, during which reminiscences of their experiences resurface.
Apartheid Casablanca is an essay film made over 48 hours in reaction to a film advertising Casablanca. Nadir Bouhmouch is a radical Moroccan filmmaker whose films evoke the strength of poetic resistance and other forms of militant strategies deployed in workers’ struggles in Morocco. This cinematographic collage extends and is in dialogue with the experiments of Santiago Alvarez.
This film celebrates longevity by introducing us to three colorful characters, all in their 80s, living in the North of Morocco. They share the courage and the pride of working continuously. Chehma is a former master fisherman, owner of a boat. Even though it leaks a little, he dreams of taking it back to sea. Abdesslam works as a street musician and his major objective is to arrange the marriage of his oldest son. Erradi, an innkeeper, is proud of his 30 year-old car and lives like a hermit, surrounded by an amazing collection of old clocks. Each in their own way demonstrate beautifully a strong will to live.
Al-Awdah li Agadir (1967) films the reconstruction of Agadir after the earthquake that almost destroyed the entire city and is akin to a modernist constructivist moving image tableau.
Maati, owner of a hearse, is charged by the family of the deceased to transport the body of their relative from Marrakech to Tetouan for his burial following his will. Accompanied by his pregnant wife, the couple will face tragi-comical events and conflicting situations during their journey where they realize the greed and egoism of the family of the deceased whose only purpose is to sharing the inheritance ...
Torn from childhood to become a soldier, Alain reveals the invisible scars of war and his struggle to find his place in a world that has cast him aside.
In a small village, Zahra, a young woman from a modest family, faces a forbidden love with Abdou. She flees to the city to escape shame. There, she discovers her talent for singing, leading her to fame, temptations, and challenges.
Ten-year-old Ayoub lives with his family in a modest apartment inherited from his grandfather. As winter begins, his uncle demands his share of the inheritance but the home's only bathroom lies on his side sparking a tense family conflict.
The artist performs a kind of physical and emotional catharsis of a body thwarted by taboos. Through this trance-like performance, she liberates her mixed-race nomadic body, tamedby education, law, history, and society.
An old man meets a eccentric young man in a police cell who claims that he comes from a remote galaxy in search of the only thing that could help him to save his endangered planet and which is known only to the inhabitants of Planet Earth...
Newly married Farid finds himself thrown into hilarious chaos when his ex-wives show up to disrupt his romantic getaway...
A documentary that follows the story of the Jebbour-Mektiri family, living on the beach of Sidi Mghaït, engaged in a legal battle with their neighbor Patrick Guerrand-Hermès, who claims ownership of their land.
In an impressionistic fashion without commentary or interviews, Smihi follows the work of the painter and educator, Arno Stern, who established the Closlieu studio in Paris and has spent a lifetime with “Painting play” workshops for children and adults. The surviving 16mm is in poor shape and not currently available for viewing.
Five-year-old Ziad wakes up one rainy morning with a sad face. He can't go out because his umbrella is broken. He tries to buy a second one with his savings to protect his mother's grave from raindrops. rain.
We are going to make them live our islands, here and now, without waiting, by fighting together, and it will be possible to live our utopias there, individual and collective.
The movie is about an alcoholic policeman who abuses his wife and his children .
An unflinchingly intimate chronicle of the filmmaker’s family in Morocco, made from footage collected over more than a decade, In Pieces captures the passage of time across generations. It is a poetic account of a country, as Belabbes, an eccentric figure in Moroccan cinema, records the extent to which larger social and political change has—or has not—affected his modest family. Narrated in a hybrid of first-person plural and singular, the film gracefully shifts between fiction and nonfiction.
In a country called Lashistan, a dictator rules. A sect wants to overthrow him to seize power and establish a theocracy. Mozad, QBZ chief, proposes to the leaders of the sect to film the president in scenes where he kills, tortures and executes; and in others, where he is engaged in total debauchery. To do so, Mozad introduces the plotters to Komany, and alcoholic actor and a look-alike of the president.
Farid, a disillusioned young musician turned migrant smuggler from northern Morocco to the Spanish enclave of Melilla, is confronted with his own humanity when the fate of pregnant sub-Saharan Angelique falls into his hands.
A nonagenarian couple seeks to know the fate of their eldest son kidnapped 37 years ago, during the "years of lead" in Morocco ...
Karim is a young man of Moroccan origin living in Brussels, who has completed advanced studies and holds many diplomas, including that of a chartered accountant.
FOR THOSE WHO HAVE EYES
The film is an autobiography of the Moroccan visual artist Benhaila Regrakia. Regrakia grows up in a conservative family that clings to its traditions, which are based on valuing the man and granting him absolute authority within the family. She finds herself trapped between self-affirmation, which is considered a departure from the norm within her family, and between traditions and social reality. Cruel.
This film is devoted to one extraordinary Moroccan woman's story. In it she confronts her family and their servants about the relationships between them, and what these relationships may reveal about Moroccan society, and her own life.