Discoveries from Morocco World Cinema

Women in Morocco create jewellery and fight to market themselves without male intermediaries.

A film in tachelhit about lBachir who has two sons lMahjob and Brik. He decides to give his property to his sons before he dies, after a while his sons treat him badly.

A nonagenarian couple seeks to know the fate of their eldest son kidnapped 37 years ago, during the "years of lead" in Morocco ...

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

krimo who struggles to protect his deaf sister Hadda from society and those around them, under extremely difficult living conditions.

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.

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.

A film in tachelhit about a dying man who tells his children that there is treasure in their field but they should get married to dig it up.

One small clue and all reveals.... journeying through exploring perception, observation, and the psychological tension between reality and interpretation. As events unfold, the audience is invited to question what is seen, what is hidden, and who truly controls the narrative.

Observing life, On question of human need for deliverance.

When Noura lies on her deathbed, she begs Hamid to bury her in his heart. He interprets this as her wish to rest by Asfour Mountain—a place made inaccessible due to border restrictions. Determined to fulfill her final wish, Hamid puts everything on the line. Their love story spreads through social media and touches people on both sides of the border, sparking a wave of solidarity to make the dream of the “Princess of Asfour Mountain” come true.

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.

A film in tachelhit about two people who go to small village to buy an old bottle for a lot of money. The people of the village decide to search for the bottle.

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.

The story of Ghaly Sultan Wardat al-Qusour, who is looking for a bride.

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.

A documentary exploring Izza Génini’s intimate relationship to places, people and events in a mutual recognition through unpublished rushes.

Larbi Trach is a retired Moroccan migrant worker who has lived in France for over fifty years. One day, he learns that not only is he suffering from a serious illness, but that he has only three months to live. The shock, which is great, is coupled with a serious question: how will he break such dramatic news to his children? Turning the question in his head, he plunges into the past, revisiting his early years in Morocco.

Using only rare archival and newsreel footage, this film tells the story of Palestine from the nineteenth century through current times.

It tells the story of a man who is the leader of a tribe"Amghar" that forcibly takes the land of the peasants and puts the documents in a box. One day, the copper key of the box disappears and the man tries to find it in different ways, where his daughter "tafoukt" puts a wedding price for whoever finds the key (tachelhit film)

Hamid is shared between his wife Souad, his mistress Leïla, and his mother-in-law Hajja. Zhor, the servant is the guardians mistress. Brahim is Hamids scapegoat, until the day when he catches him red-handed. Hamid is blackmailed...

A young woman in her thirties arrives in a sort of military prison with the aim of freeing her parents. She is accompanied by a glass blower, who, by imposing repetitive and tiring work on her, seeks to make her understand the impossibility of her quest.

A film in tachelhit about lHousine who returns to his brother and his village which he built his new home after he spent half of his life in the city. But things don't go well as he expected.

The movie is about an alcoholic policeman who abuses his wife and his children .

Said, a Moroccan émigré in Switzerland,arrives one day in a village in the High Atlas. He announced from the start the reason for his arrival in the village. He did not come to go sightseeing or visit family, but his reasons are professional or rather pecuniary. Said tells villagers that he has come to recruit young people who, after an accelerated training in Europe, will become future athletes like Hicham El Guerrouj. Soon the inhabitants of the village, women and children, are interested. They all dream of changing the course of their lives.

Tarik lives in a land without colour, a land where water is contaminated by a strange phenomenon of “water bugs”. Tarik wears make-up and dresses up as a woman. He dances on a cart that is drawn by a dying horse and his father has practically abandoned him. One day, Tarik’s horse Larbi stops in the middle of a procession and refuses to take another step forward. Tarik will have to learn to live again and surrender to the colours of his life, which is the only way to escape the dullness of the world around him.

A wooden frame, placed there as if by chance, becomes the only window into an invisible world: that of a man shaped by the sea.

Ahmed and Houda decide to meet for the first time in the privacy of an apartment, away from the prying eyes of others. After devising a strategy to overcome all obstacles, they find themselves face to face in this foreign apartment that still bears the traces of a recent tragedy. When they return home at night, they realize that they are no longer the same.

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.

A film in tachelhit about Anir and Rabia who have been in a relationship for a long time. After they got married things got worse for Rabia.

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.

Shot on location in a very remote part of southern Morocco, this short film looks into the amazing craftsmanship and dedication of the Berber rug weavers in the region. These incredibly talented people are part of an ancient tradition that still employs centuries-old techniques to produce beautiful and unique handwoven rugs.

At the heart of Jemaâ el-Fna, Marrakech's famous square, rumors say that a dark mystery forgotten by time lies hidden: a secret prison.

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.

Nadia decided to end her life, so she climbed onto the roof of the psychiatric hospital where she’d been receiving treatment and threatened to jump if anyone approached—she had nothing left to lose. Hospital staff rushed to dissuade her, and Dr. Ibtisam faced the challenge of convincing this woman in her sixties, engulfed in despair, to step back from this dangerous brink. Drawing on all her experience, Dr. Ibtisam worked to restore Nadia’s trust and encourage her to open her heart and share her story.

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.

In a Marrakech call centre, sales calls to France become a profound meditation on voice, distance, and who gets to be heard.

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 southern Morocco, at the crossroads of desert spirituality and ancestral ritual, lives Moulay Hassan, a master of the Aïssaoua brotherhood a Sufi order renowned for its dramatic ceremonies of trance, sacred music, and extreme physical practices.

This BBC documentary "The Stones in Morocco" traces their summer 1989 visit to Tangier. A three days stay in the magical northern city of Morocco, to record live sessions with The Master Musicians of Jajouka in Tangier's Palais Ben Abbou, to finish give birth to the "Continental drift" song from the "Steel Wheels" album.

Ismaïl, a former gold robber, is released from prison after serving a twelve-year sentence. Upon his liberation, he reunites with his childhood friend, Nassim, who has just returned from Turkey. Together, the two friends embark on a frantic race to find a missing chest filled with gold.

A forest and wildlife enthusiast, Aqqa became the best hunter in his region at an early age. His wide-ranging knowledge of the forest is matched only by his immutable sense of freedom. Attempts to domesticate this wild soul turned him into a bloodthirsty bandit. With his gang, he sowed terror throughout the 1990s. The legend of Boulouhouch spreads throughout the country, presenting him as a mythical being with superhuman powers who had to be taken down in an increasingly modernized and rationalized Morocco. The film explores the fall of a man in search of freedom in a green far-west; the Atlas Mountains.

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.

The story of kharboucha tha AITA singer who rebels against the injustice with her songs .

ghost of spacetime by Karim Tajouout

In Sange Khara, commissioned by Fundação Bienal de São Paulo for the 36th Bienal, Laila Hida offers a landscape where memory is not narrated, but circled – tentatively, tenderly, with the gravity of something sacred and half-forgotten. The project stages a kind of poetic inquiry where images seem to emerge from a re-constructed memory anchored by a 16mm film and expanded through an immersive installation. Characters cross paths, brought together through a tapestry of iconographic and cinematic references: the young woman from The Wanderers of the Desert (1984), the couple in The Sheltering Sky (1990). Two young guys ride their bikes and strike poses on a dirt road as if freshly cast in a rap video summoning an apparition, a construct of a landscape, the desert, the oasis, and the people who inhabit them, filtered through cinema and image.

he events of the film take place in a working-class neighborhood near the sea, where Younis lives with his father, the fisherman Idris. Younis, 28, suffers from autism, which confuses him and locks him into his own world, while Idris spends most of his day at sea. Idris, with his own abilities and simple culture, tries to treat his son in the traditional way.

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 ...

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.