Country: Morocco

Direction Orson Welles

Cast Orson Welles · Suzanne Cloutier · Micheál MacLiammóir · Robert Coote

Synopsis The story of a man driven mad by the power of his self-contained emotion. A Shakespearean classic. Orson Welles' production began in 1948 but with money in short supply the production took a further four years to complete. An original...

Direction Maryam Touzani

Cast Saleh Bakri · Lubna Azabal · Ayoub Messioui

Synopsis Halim and Mina who run a traditional caftan store in one of Morocco's oldest medinas. In order to keep up with demanding customers, they hire a talented young man as an apprentice. Slowly Mina realises how much her husband is...

Direction Nabil Ayouch

Cast Abdelhakim Rachid · Abdelilah Rachid · Hamza Souidek · Ahmed El Idrissi El Armani

Synopsis Yachine is 10 years old, he lives with his family in the slum of Sidi Moumen in Casablanca. His mother, Yemma, leads the family as best as she can. His father suffers from depression, one of his brothers is in...

Direction Nabil Ayouch

Cast Mounïm Kbab · Mustapha Hansali · Hicham Moussoune · Abdelhak Zhayra

Direction Maryam Touzani

Cast Lubna Azabal · Nisrin Erradi · Douae Belkhaouda · Aziz Hattab

Synopsis Abla runs a modest local bakery from her home in Casablanca where she lives alone with her 8-year-old daughter, Warda. When Samia, a young pregnant woman knocks on their door, Abla is far from imagining that her life will change...

Direction Ismaël Ferroukhi

Cast Nicolas Cazalé · Mohamed Majd · Roxane Mesquida · Kamel Belghazi

Synopsis One of Islam’s great pillars, the hajj, serves as a backdrop for a moving and heartwarming story of reconciliation between a traditional North African father and his French-raised, thoroughly Westernized son. Mustapha is convinced the end of his life is...

Direction Asmae El Moudir

Cast Zahra Jedat · Mohamed El Moudir · Ouarda Zorkani · Abdallah Ez Zouid

Synopsis A family’s web of lies and one young girl’s search to find the truth. Through her own voice, Asmae, daughter and filmmaker, flits between national and personal history to tell the 1981 Bread Riots in Morocco and shows how this...

Direction Nabil Ayouch

Cast Maryam Touzani · Arieh Worthalter · Amine Ennaji · Abdelilah Rachid

Synopsis The streets of Casablanca provide the centerpiece for five separate narratives that all collide into one.

Direction Kamal Lazraq

Cast Ayoub Elaid · Abdelatif El Mansouri · Mohamed Hmimsa · Abdellatif Lebkiri

Synopsis Hassan is a small-time dealer on the outskirts of Casablanca who works for the head of a local clan. When his boss's favorite dog is killed in a dog fight, Hassan is ordered to kidnap one of those responsible. To...

Direction Meryem Benm’Barek

Cast Maha Alemi · Lubna Azabal · Sarah Perles · Faouzi Bensaïdi

Synopsis A 20-year-old single Moroccan girl suffering from pregnancy denial faces the tough local laws on sex outside of marriage when she suddenly gives birth.

Direction Nour Eddine Lakhmari

Cast Anas Elbaz · Omar Lotfi · Mohamed Benbrahim · Ghita Tazi

Synopsis In today’s beautiful and endearing yet chaotic Casablanca, two 20-something year-old childhood friends, Adil and Karim, try to make a life for themselves. Living by their street-smart wits, which often involves small-time misdeeds, Karim employs children who sell cigarettes on...

Direction Nabil Ayouch

Cast Loubna Abidar · Halima Karaouane · Asmaa Lazrak · Sara Elhamdi Elalaoui

Synopsis A group of women in Morocco make a living as prostitutes in a culture that is very unforgiving toward women in that profession.

Direction Alaa Eddine Aljem

Cast Younes Bouab · Salah Ben Saleh · Bouchaib Semmak · Mohammed Nouaimane

Synopsis In the middle of the desert, Amine runs. His fortune in his hand, the police on the heels. He buries his booty in a hastily made tomb. When he returns ten years later, the arid hill has become a place...

Direction Mostafa Derkaoui

Cast Abbas Fassi Fehri · Aïcha Saadoun

Direction Laïla Marrakchi

Cast Hiam Abbass · Nadine Labaki · Lubna Azabal · Morjana Alaoui

Direction Sean Gullette

Cast Chaimae Ben Acha · Soufia Issami · Mourade Zeguendi · Driss Roukhe

Synopsis Malika is the leader of the all-female punk rock band Traitors, with a strong vision of the world, her hometown of Tangier, and her place in it. When she needs money to save her family from eviction, and to realize...

Direction Yasmine Kassari

Cast Mounia Osfour · Rachida Brakni · Nermine Elhaggar · Fatna Abdessamie

Synopsis In the northeast of contemporary Morocco, Zeinab, a young wife watches her husband leave the country to go underground the day after their wedding. Zeinab is expecting a child. While she is waiting for her husband to return she lulls...

Direction Yasmine Benkiran

Cast Nissrin Radi · Nisrine Benchara · Rayhan Guaran

Synopsis 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.

Direction Fadil Chouika

Cast Mohamed Khouyi · Rahhal Barita · Waffaa El Massoudy · Lamiae Jaafari

Synopsis Abdelali is a left-handed person. This gift of nature is the first burden for him while his father, a narrow-minded man, is his second cross. The latter demonizes the left hand and frustrates his son when he uses his left...

Direction Daoud Aoulad-Syad

Cast Abdelhadi Touhrach · Bouchra Hraich · Mustapha Tahah · Naceur Oujri

Synopsis For the filming of the movie "Waiting for Pasolini", sets were built on land leased from local villagers. Among the sets, a mosque was built on the land of Moha, a villager who also appears in the movie. At the...