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Tag Archives: Morocco
The Gate of Sun / Bab el shams (2004) Yusri Nasrullah, Hiam Abbass, Fadi Abi Samra, Hussein Abou Seada
Yousry Nasrallah’s powerful adaptation of Lebanese writer Elias Khoury’s epic novel of fifty years of Palestinian dispossession Read More »
Casablanca Beats / Haut et fort (2021) Nabil Ayouch, Anas Basbousi, Ismail Adouab, Zineb Boujemaa
Anas, a former rapper, is employed in a cultural centre. Read More »
Mimosas (2016) Oliver Laxe, Ahmed Hammoud, Shakib Ben Omar, Said Aagli
A caravan escorts an elderly, dying Sheikh through the Moroccan Atlas. Read More »
Oh the Days! AKA Alyam, alyam (1978) Ahmed El Maanouni, Ben Brahim
Abdelwahad dreams of a life of wealth and wants breaks with tradition. Read More »
The Message AKA Al-Risâlah (1977) Moustapha Akkad, Anthony Quinn, Irene Papas, Michael Ansara
This must-see epic depicts the birth of Islam. In the 7th century Mohammed is visited by Angel Gabriel Read More »
A Thousand and One Hands AKA Les mille et une mains (1973) Souheil Ben-Barka, Abdou Chaibane, Mimsy Farmer, Si Ahmed
In Morocco, an old dyer and his young son Miloud work transporting wool packs. Read More »
I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed (2005) Serge Le Péron, Saïd Smihi, Charles Berling, Simon Abkarian, Josiane Balasko
My name is Georges Figon. Okay I’m dead but, being the talkative kind, death isn’t going to stop me from speaking. Read More »
Noces de sang (1977) Souheil Ben-Barka, Irene Papas, Laurent Terzieff, Djamila, Drama
In a small village in southern Morocco, Amrouch cannot, because of his social position, marry the daughter of a wealthy farmer from the nearby village. Read More »
Much Loved (2015) Nabil Ayouch, Loubna Abidar, Asmaa Lazrak, Halima Karaouane, Drama
A social drama about four marginalized prostitutes in Marrakech and their complex relations with their families and society at large.
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