Movies: Asmae El Moudir

On a handmade set re-creating her Casablanca neighborhood, a young Moroccan filmmaker enlists family and friends to help unearth the troubling lies built into her childhood....

When director Asmae El Moudir finds an old picture postcard of a mountain village among her mother’s belongings, it brings a remarkable story to life. The picture is of Zawia, the village in Morocco that her mother left as a child and never returned ...

They had taken part in the glorious Green March in 1975. They had wanted to reach the town of Laâyoune. But their journey had stopped at the edge of the town of Tarfaya. 45 years later, they decided to take a trip back in time, during which reminisce...

Tayeb a shy young screenwriter, neglected by his family and the majority of his friends, revolts one day against marginalization by threatening his father and his entire class with a revolver, he consumes all his bullets.......

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A young girl recalls the communal Friday family dinners, a time of tradition and airing of diverse opinions. Recalling the history of Morocco and those who tried in earnest to affect change, the experiential nature of the film allows for an interesti...

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Saida goes every day after school to the sea to bring in an old bucket what her father was able to fish. Deaf and dumb, she expresses her feelings through drawing, her father can't make ends meet, on the taking of the song "Lighara" by the group "Jil...

Laarbi, an old projectionist works in a movie theatre that is isolated in the countryside and is on its way to definite closure. Salman discovers, while arranging the affairs of his grandfather, old pieces of film. This is the trigger that gives him ...