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La Mère de tous les mensonges
Young Moroccan filmmaker Asmae El Moudir wants to know why she only has one photograph from her childhood, and why the girl in the picture isn’t even her. She decides to explore the past and its mysteries by creating a handmade replica of the Casablanca neighborhood where she grew up. There, she begins to interrogate the tales her mother, father and grandmother tell about their home and their country. Slowly, she starts to unravel the layers of deception and intentional forgetting that have shaped her life. The truth is hard to face, but in this sometimes surreal nonfiction film, El Moudir begins to draw what is real to the surface. Official Selection – Un Certain Regard / Festival de Cannes – 2023 Moroccan cinema is presented in collaboration with the Centre culturel marocain de Montréal.
Les Damnés ne pleurent pas
Fatima-Zahra and her teenage son Selim move from place to place, forever trying to outrun the latest scandal she’s caught up in. When Selim discovers the truth about their past, Fatima-Zahra vows to make a fresh start. In Tangier, new opportunities promise the legitimacy they each crave — but not without pushing the volatile mother-son relationship to the breaking point. Official Selection – London Film Festival – 2022Official Selection – Venice Film Festival – 2022 Moroccan cinema is presented in collaboration with the Centre culturel marocain de Montréal.
Abdelinho
In love with Brazil and Maria, soapopera heroin harassed by corrupt contractor Roberto, Abdelinho suffers parallel ordeal in Morocco by pressure of Amr Taleb, a dogmatic, moralistic priest, enforcing religious purity on the community.
Le Bleu du caftan
Halim and Mina 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 moved by his presence. Official Selection – Un certain regard – Cannes Festival – 2022Official Selection – Toronto International Film Festival – 2022
Casablanca Beats
Official selection – Cannes Film Festival – 2021Morocco’s Official Oscars Submission – 94th Academy awardsOfficial selection – AFI Fest – 2021 Presented in collaboration with UdeS Monde. A discussion with experts will follow the screening. Inspired by true events, a former rapper takes a job at a cultural center in an under privileged neighborhood in Casablanca. Encouraged and inspired, his students try to free themselves from the weight of restrictive traditions in order to live their passions and express themselves through the arts.
Myopia
Prix Spécial du Jury et Prix Meilleur film de la section Regards d’ici – Vues d’Afrique 2020 Official Selection – Festival des cinémas d’Afrique, France – 2020 Official Selection – Festival cinéma d’Afrique de Lausanne – 2020 Fatem, pregnant in her sixth month, leaves her village in the mountains, filling an empty glasses frame for the elder of her village. She moves from one station to another facing obstacles designed to fill the empty frame, until she loses her fetus during a demonstration in the city. which will transform its journey or a peaceful revolution of which it is not a conscious war and which causes public opinion through the disinformation of the social media, will support its cause and claim its right. Un CINÉ-ÉCHANGE autour des enjeux de ce film et du documentaire La Rockeuse du désert, de Sara Nacer, se tiendra le samedi à 17 h, à La Maison du Cinéma, en présence des réalisatrices. Conservez votre billet pour le film afin d’accéder gratuitement au CINÉ-ÉCHANGE.