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The Movie is a kind of tale, a look at a not so distant past that will allow everyone to make a judgment on the behavior of all the actors of this slice of history, of those who fought with courage and dignity. Those who took advantage and fortune.
Yussef is a blind twelve year old orphan leaving with his grand-parents in southern Morocco. His grandfather offers him a camera, and the two embark on a road trip to see the legendary blue lake in the middle of the desert.
Allal, a street vendor who sells vegetables to cover the expenses of treating his seriously ill daughter, decides to travel to another city due to bad conditions. He works as a truck driver and lives in the hope of working for a large company owned by the son of one of his friends who comes from abroad.
Once a Punk, always a Punk? This is the story of Stof whom we followed for 8 years through the popular districts of Casablanca. He pays his independence at a high price when he finds himself arrested.
After his release from prison, Dados decides to stay a crook, only seeing things bigger this time. To do this, he recruits four women with chaotic lives and embarks on several burglaries, blackmail and fraud operations all motivated by personal reasons.
1964, after the death of his father, for which he feels guilty, Lahcen decides to leave his native village in the Moroccan Atlas to start over a new life in Tangier. He works as a nurse with his friend Omar. Nothing seemed to look awkward until Omar tries to involve Lahcen into a suspicious case of organ trafficking. Tired of the psychological influence of Omar, Lahcen, seeking redemption, ends up heading back to his village where he could meet back his inner peace. 40 years later, Lahcen is arrested for an alleged trafficking in Tangier. To clear his father Ali, undertakes a journey through the past of his father. During his quest, he will cross the path of Said, the brother he never thought he had.
Zero is a police officer in his mid thirties, pacing the streets of Casablanca, surrounded by loss and futility, and the corruption of everyone around him.
More than two years after the sudden death of Michael Glawogger in April 2014, film editor Monika Willi realizes a film out of the film footage produced during 4 months and 19 days of shooting in the Balkans, Italy, Northwest and West Africa. A journey into the world to observe, listen and experience, the eye attentive, courageous and raw. Serendipity is the concept - in shooting as well as in editing the film.
The story of a young man of peasant origin, a minor official in Casablanca, which can not adapt to life in the big city.
Al Bahit (The Researcher) – A man obsessed with cracking the lottery system becomes convinced he has discovered a foolproof method to predict winning numbers. Drawing others into his scheme, he risks everything in pursuit of easy wealth—only to face the harsh consequences of addiction, illusion, and misplaced trust.
Fakhita discovered that her husband's daughter has a child from his mistress. He gets angry at him and forces him to divorce her only child, but the latter strongly rejects her attachment to her and her weakness. Which makes the need to pour out her anger by preventing him from using the work car, preventing the servants from carrying out any of his orders, and determining his powers in the company, which will make him plan to marry his mother in order to return to his previous position.
Three intertwined stories follow Félicité, a young Sub-Saharan migrant at the Morocco-Spain border near Melilla. After her friend Sandrine’s tragic death, Félicité vows to honour her by returning to Tangier to earn money for a Christian burial. The second story centers on Hamid, an unscrupulous recruiter exploiting migrant workers, whose deceit ultimately costs him his job. Finally, Kenza, a wealthy young mother, hires Félicité as a nanny against her husband’s wishes, leading to escalating marital conflict that leaves Félicité facing despair.
An old man and his son live in a village abandoned due to drought and famine. The father loses his son and is left alone, burdened by the duty of burying his dead child and by the sorrow of knowing that no one will be left to bury him after his own death.
Three close friends need to find 120 Dirhams to pay for their friend's bus pass so he doesn't drop out of college.. but are confronted with harsh reality. The cry of despair drives them to the ultimate act: taking a bus hostage.
The 9th edition of Marrakech du rire is still taking place at the El Badi Palace. Jamel Debbouze is joined by Caroline Vigneaux, Aby Abittan, Booder, Waly Dia, Donel Jack'sman, and many others.
An amazing journey back in time to Morocco in the seventies, through a colorful collage of jazz music, posters and magazine covers, archive footage and cartoons; from the perspective of the artists, many of whom ended up in jail or disappeared without a trace under the tyranny of King Hassan II.
Aya only dreams of finding love like her favorite opera character Carmen. But the person who steals her heart is a powerful hashish trafficker known as The Baron. After buying her virginity from her brothers, he soon reveals himself to be an illusory prince charming.
The only entertainment for 10-year-old Aya, a domestic helper, is some TV and her fantasies about the sea. With her handicapped neighbor, she seeks a way to make her dream come true.
The movie tells the story of a poor teenager, mired in suffering and oppression, who would make up his mind to take revenge from an oppressing society wherein immorality and intolerance prevail.
Ranya is a young woman who finds herself at the center of a conspiracy, she has been «programmed» and manipulated by members of a mysterious organization, to serve as a lab rat in an experiment carried out by these people for a very specific purpose. A whole protocol was set up to shape her and create the desired character. Stripped of her life and souvenirs, with a confused memory and a suffocating present, Ranya decides to set off in search of her true life. A life lost in a plot to rule the world through the conditioning of high-ranking personalities. A well-crafted scheme to monitor, govern and rule.
A number of friends play cards and put the sums collected in the coin bank, a year later they will decide to take a trip to Casablanca, and there they are exposed to several situations and problems.
L'Gharbi works in a newspaper's telex booth to classify dispatches. One day while reading a dispatch relating to an island whose governor had disappeared, Al Gharbi identified with the character of the governor of the island of “Chakerbakerben”
A young filmmaker makes a movie honoring the life of his childhood nanny and their close bond.
As co-directed by brothers Swad and Imad Noury (and produced by their mother, Pilar Cazorla), The Moroccan picture Heaven's Doors (2005) employs an episodic narrative, with three related substories presented sequentially. The Nourys shoot the episodes in distinct cinematographic styles (and with distinct overtones) suited to each tale, recalling Humberto Solas's masterpiece Lucia (1969).
As Haj Moussa is caught by border guards while trying to reach Gibraltar in a small boat, he is sent to prison, and his family tries to help him return home, while his wife tries to procure money for the household and run the business.
Casablanca, Morocco. A trio of women, with the police on their tail, embarks on a long escape that takes them across the rugged red terrain and flower-filled valleys of the Atlas to finally reach the Atlantic coast.
A man wakes in a native village, unable to recall how he got there. As he's aided back to health through rest and the topless magic of a young girl, the village soon comes under attack by a helicopter which drives the man to flee into the jungle.
Hakim is an honest police officer deeply devoted to his daughter, finding great joy and happiness in her company. One day, his daughter is kidnapped. Hakim does everything in his power to find her, set her free, and bring her kidnappers to justice.
A solitary young poet finds solace in wandering the city streets at dusk, gazing at the houses and the lives of passersby. One evening, he saves a young woman from suicide. Drawn together by this chance encounter, the two get to know each other and share their life stories with heartfelt sincerity. For the past year, she has been waiting for her lover, who has promised to marry her. Despite this, the poet falls in love with her. However, fate has different plans.
Following the death of Amina Filali, a 16 year-old girl who killed herself after she was allegedly forced to marry the man who raped her, a young woman carries a personal investigation into the representation and perception of rape in Morocco. Here rapists are offered to marry their victims as a means to save the "honour" of the family. By liberating the voices of these victims, 475 : Break the Silence gives an unprecedented view of family, the deceit of love, relationships, marriage and honour in urban deprived areas of a country seeking to find its identity between modernity and tradition.
Fatem, who is six-months pregnant, leaves her village to fill a frame with empty glasses for the elder of her village, who is the only person who can decipher the letters sent by members of the villagers' families who have gone to work in the cities.
In a rocky mountain village cut off from secondary education, siblings Mohammed and Fatima face the abrupt end of school at twelve. Standing at their childhood’s end, they are forced into an uncertain passage toward adult life.
Farid lives with his mother in the medina. Still a bachelor, he draws a modest income by extorting vendors and small shop-owners by impersonating a policeman. Every day, he dons the uniform, a fake gun and handcuffs, puts on a show, and does the rounds – blissfully unaware that the real police force has him under surveillance, suspecting he might be a member of the criminal underground. Officer Bouchra is sent in, her mission to get close to him and gather information first-hand. Driss Mrini’s uproarious comedy had a successful run at the box office, and showcases the talent of a host of Moroccan film stars..
A seagull, a dog, a child, a call to prayer; Looking through a window, the corridor of a train, the wall of a medina; Everyday life is momentarily paused through the eyes of a stranger in an unknown land.
When a group of people takes a white taxi to go to Casablanca, they get in an accident that changes the course of their trip as the taxi, along with its passengers, gets held hostage by a drug dealer.
Things change in the life of the taxi driver, Alal, in terms of appearance and financial level, and he goes on many adventures with several characters through his daily life and work.
The movie deals with the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and the struggle of the Afghan people against them, through the story of an Afghan girl, a university professor and a religious scholar before the deterioration of the situation in Afghanistan.
Imane, a 14-year-old girl who lives in Taroudant, dreams of going to the seaside city of Agadir. Everything changes when one day Laila, who lives in Agadir, offers to take her there.
Aida, member of a Tunisian contemporary dance troupe touring Morocco, provokes during a representation in a small Middle Atlas town, her life and stage partner Hedi, who injures her onstage triggering a series of events through a long night across a forest, on the way to the next village's doctor.
A play director prepares to train a troupe on Jean Genet’s The Maids, however, tensions escalate after he starts taking antidepressants and battling his own demons ahead of the play’s scheduled performance in front of a producer and a cultural manager from the French embassy.
Fadma is an active Moroccan woman, a mother who, after the death of her husband, raised her two children alone: Ahmed is her pride and joy, having succeeded in France, and Karim is the eccentric artist who still lives with her. Sensing danger around her son Ahmed, she decides to visit him in France. And it's here that she discovers the problem of her granddaughter Julie-Aïcha, a teenager in search of her identity. Fadma and Julie-Aïcha discover a new shared passion.
A combination of three short films tackling the subject of AIDS, a subject approached by three different directors.
Four lifelong sufferers of injustice - four elderly women known as “the Hajjates” - band together to reclaim agency over their lives. With the help of a young couple, their rebellious alliance embarks on a series of adventures, rediscovering joy and making their voices heard.
Zwaj El Waqt explores the themes of love and marriage in Morocco. Told through the testimonies of diverse couples, it tackles the issues of relationships, social media, control and sexuality in a conservative society that still struggles to discuss freely about those topics.
Casablanca, 2003. 14 young hard-rockers are arrested and condemned for sentences from 3 months to 1 year. What are the accusations? Satanism and shaking the foundations of Islam. Based on actual events.
His companion is solitude at the sea, and his moral compass is his faith. Hassan's entire worldview is challenged as the refugee crisis affects this coastal village. All individuals close to him will be affected by the decisions he makes.
Bochaib, the unemployed old son of the old city of Casablanca, was given the chance to immigrate to the United States legally, Met with the US consulate in Fatiha, who is also dreaming of leaving for America, she agrees with Boushoaib on a white marriage in return for leaving with him while she is charged with the expenses of residence and travel.
Sami, Zouhair, and Hicham get involved in a trouble with the police, which results in Sami's arrest. As Hicham and Zouhair rush to request aid from Amal and Sara and the lawyer Nisrin to help their detained buddy, but they run into complications, including coming up with 30 million for his bail.
The nomadic life of Moroccan carnival performers forms the basis of this debut from director Daoud Aoulad-Syad. Rabi, a female impersonator who dances with traveling fairs, teams up with Kacem, who hires him to ballyhoo his gambling concession. While Rabi's lack of romantic interest in women befuddles Kacem's son, he does strike up a friendship with a schoolteacher (Nezha Rahile), who in her way is as much of a misfit as Rabi.
It's the tragedy of a young man whose dream of universal happiness is so powerful an influence on him that he cannot allow himself to accept the personal happiness of marriage to a young, beautiful and devoted girl. Therefore, he goes insane.
On an island off Casablanca, an old footballer shares his days with his granddaughter and dreams of this final he could have won if he had not spent the night with a woman.
The man reads his newspaper on a toilet bowl. The woman presents the newspaper behind a television. In fact, he's a prisoner, she's a spy. But what terrible secret is he hiding?
Casablanca 1958, barely a year after the country gained independence, Amina, a young 22-year-old teacher and Captain Youssef, who had just graduated from a police academy in France, opposed Charqi's actions, his acolytes and his sponsors, in the name of the law of morality and patriotism.
Abdou is tricked into an experiment by American researchers and is suddenly propelled into a distant civilization, that of the Almohad dynasty who ruled the great Maghreb and Muslim Spain from 1147 to 1269 during the reign of Yaqub Al Mansour.
A father searches for his son after he disappeared from view, especially after doubts were raised about his possibility of joining extremist groups
Hamid is a former volunteer who participated in the 1982 Lebanon War and returns from there with disappointment. He becomes homeless in the city of Casablanca. He resorts to theft and addiction to combat his homelessness and physical disability. His only dream in life is to bring his symphony into existence, so he asks the help from his homeless friends for that.
To conclude his investigation, Inspector Medi meets with Souad, last assistant of the painter Kamal to get her testimony on the past events. With details and emotions, she recounts the tragic destiny of the people she knew. Human being are sometimes the instruments of their own death.
The life of a young man who is passionate about music (rap) and the problems of his family accepting what he wants to be.
Moroccan horror movie, the heroes are the members of a family who bought a big house at a good price and who discovered later that the house e was inhabited by by a family of ghosts. The new owner has not found a solution to fight them and try to put them out of the house by using a ghost hunter 'Faqih'. The thing that will infuriate the creatures that will begin to defend themselves and try in turn to scare away the new owners. Last solution for both families is other than to share the house and live in peace together.
A musician whose career never took off decides one day to start a real career as an artist.