Two childhood friends, Karim and Adil, prowl the streets of Casablanca, their native city. Read More »
Tag Archives: Morocco
The Narrow Frame of Midnight / Itar el-layl (2014) Tala Hadid, Khalid Abdalla, Marie-Josée Croze, Fadwa Boujouane
A man in search of his brother and a young girl in search of a home, both running toward an unknown future. One finds freedom, the other death. Read More »
Moolaadé (2004) Ousmane Sembene, Fatoumata Coulibaly, Maimouna Hélène Diarra, Salimata Traoré
When a woman shelters a group of girls from suffering female genital mutilation, she starts a conflict that tears her village apart. Read More »
Todos vós sodes capitáns / You All Are Captains (2010) Óliver Laxe, Shakib Ben Omar, Nabil Dourgal, Mohamed Bablouh
A European director is making a film with children from a social center in Tangiers. Read More »
Romancero marroquí (1939) Enrique Domínguez Rodiño, Carlos Velo, Aalami, Georg Eilert, Fatma
The young farmer Aalami leaves his family to find work elsewhere. Read More »
Tangiers (1982) Michael E. Briant, Ronny Cox, Billie Whitelaw, Glynis Barber
A former CIA agent is forced by crooked agents of the government to pose as a notorious smuggler. Read More »
The Mother of All Lies (2023) Asmae El Moudir
A Moroccan woman’s search for truth tangles with a web of lies in her family history. Read More »
Omar Killed Me / Omar m’a tuer (2011) Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila, Denis Podalydès, Maurice Bénichou
In the summer of 1991 an elderly woman Ghislaine Marchal Read More »
Sofia (2018) Meryem Benm’Barek-Aloïsi, Maha Alemi, Lubna Azabal, Sarah Perles
Sofia, 20, lives with her parents in Casablanca. Following a denial of pregnancy Read More »
Razzia (2017) Nabil Ayouch, Maryam Touzani, Arieh Worthalter, Amine Ennaji
The streets of Casablanca provide the centerpiece for five separate narratives that all collide into one. Read More »