Production - ARABIC - Drama - 90 minutes
Year of production : 2017 Director(s) : Mohamed ZINEDDAINE Writer(s) : Mohamed ZINEDDAINE , Olivier BOMBARDA Cast : Fatima ATTIF , Mehdi LAAROUBI , Ahmed MOUSTAFID Producer(s) : Mohamed ZINEDDAINE (OUARZAZATE FILMS ), Rachida SAADI (JANAPROD )
On the outskirts of Khouribga, a mining town exploiting phosphates, a 16-year old teen- ager, ABDOU, helpful and caring, simple and down to earth, incapable of harm, is anxious to regain the gift of human dignity through learning how to read and write. His adoptive mother MBARKA, a midwife, the neighborhood’s healer, protects her privileged status with ways that the laws of obscurantism allow her. CH’AAYBA, a thirty-year old guy, uncontrollable and ferociously cynical, is an eccentric pickpocket. Suffering from a skin disease, ABDOU convinces him to come see MBARKA in order to get treatment for it: that’s how the fate of these three will entangle, twirling on the carrousel of illusion
Country(ies) : MOROCCO
tanger 2019 (Best Director - Best actress - Best actor- Jury Prize )Khouribga 2019 (Special mention of the jury )Arabe film festival Rotterdam 2019 (Special mention of the jury )Cine plage de Harhoura 2019 (Audience Award )Malmo arabe film Festival 2019 (Best Actress )Festival de Valence 2019Festival International de Naples 2019 (Vesuvio d'Or )Oujda Maghrebian Film Festival 2020 (Great prize )