Fatima Hernadi (Raouia)
History
Fatima Hernadi is a Moroccan actress known for the name Raouia, born in Azemmour(1951). She moved to Casablanca to finish her studies at the Chawki high school, where she joined the Mansour Theatre Company, with which she won the award for best actress for the play ‘Failers’ at the national festival of theatre called ‘perdant’. Until 1978, she entered the cinema world, with the director Mohamed El Abazi, in his film ‘Atlas Treasures’. She acted in a 2004 film entitled ‘Yeux Secs’ with Narjiss Nejjar, a role that introduced her to Moroccan cinema. She won the best ‘Starlet’ at the Territorial Festival of Spectacle for her role in ‘Saga, The Story of Men Who Never Come Back’. She was chosen as a member of the jury of the 16th edition of the International Film Festival of Marrakech.
Grandma
Everyone seems to be getting married in her community, but Yasmine wants to focus on her career. Can she balance her many identities and find happiness?
"Al Ikhwan" is a social comedy that tells the story of 3 friends (Zreka, Charo, and Abdelssadek), from a slum in Casablanca, who consider themselves brothers. Each of them has their story, their concerns, their problems, but they all share the same thing: failure in their lives marked by poverty, unemployment and marginalization... By seeking to create a buzz at through a video shot by the 3 young people, they were polarized and manipulated because of their naivety and carelessness and thus found themselves pursued by a search warrant against them throughout the national territory. .
Naima
A young filmmaker makes a movie honoring the life of his childhood nanny and their close bond.
Masoud is released from prison after around 15 years of detention. An old friend he meets after his release from prison asks him to look for his daughter, Saïda, who left her in the city of Dakhla, with one of her relatives before losing contact with her. "Masoud" finds "Saïda", who works as a singer in a bar, the latter steals a key to a mafia belonging to an imprisoned minister, this key opens a safe filled with precious documents which accuses a member of parliament. a monkey named "Saâdan" swallows this key, to become their travel companion in many adventures where they find themselves chased by the mafia, the police, the men of the member of parliament, as well as trafficking gangs.
Hotel Receptionist
A counter-terrorism expert takes a job protecting a young heiress. After an attempted kidnapping puts both of their lives in danger, they must flee.
The3M: Malika, Moïse and Mathieu are friends, all born in the same neighbourhood of Casablanca, of different religions. A strong friendship links them. but, political events set them apart. They meet again and try to maintain their bonds.
Hmida's Mother
The Town of Owls is an isolated residential community situated in the High Atlas Mountains. It is inhabited by families and guards of a secret political prison camp, which remained out of history for a long time until the early 1990s. Guards spend their long days back and forth between the secret prison and the village, through a suspension bridge built upon a deep valley that connects the village with the fortress prison.
Sofia, 20, lives with her parents in Casablanca. Suffering from pregnancy denial, she finds herself breaking the law by giving birth to a baby out of wedlock. The hospital gives her 24 hours to provide the father's papers before informing the authorities…
Hajja Mamass
BurnOut is a film about the grinding down of hope by the contradictory values and morals of Moroccan society and how a mere chance encounter can throw everything that is taken for granted as normal and correct into question once one has glimpsed the possibility of the love and companionship that lies just beyond the walls of the Moroccan society. A shoe shiner Ayoub, a bourgeois couple, Jad and Ines in a loveless marriage, a wealthy but ailing art collector, and a young medical student Aida moonlighting as an escort, each interaction forever changing them and setting them on an irreversible trajectory towards catharsis or total collapse.
The movie tells the story of a poor teenager, mired in suffering and oppression, who would make up his mind to take revenge from an oppressing society wherein immorality and intolerance prevail.
The only entertainment for 10-year-old Aya, a domestic helper, is some TV and her fantasies about the sea. With her handicapped neighbor, she seeks a way to make her dream come true.
Mirdin's Mother
England, 1021. Rob Cole, a boy born in a miserable mining town, swears to become a physician and vanquish disease and death. His harsh path of many years, a quest for knowledge besieged by countless challenges and sacrifices, leads him to the remote Isfahan, in Persia, where he meets Ibn Sina, the greatest healer of his time.
The whole family is reunited when Sofia comes back for his father's funeral. Quickly, inner problems are revealed.
A young woman, who is in charge of an orphanage, is summoned by the police to help identify a corpse. On this day, she will witness a painful confrontation with a smalll town, its past, and the many characters who seem to be following her.
Zero is a police officer in his mid thirties, pacing the streets of Casablanca, surrounded by loss and futility, and the corruption of everyone around him.
La Diva
Aya only dreams of finding love like her favorite opera character Carmen. But the person who steals her heart is a powerful hashish trafficker known as The Baron. After buying her virginity from her brothers, he soon reveals himself to be an illusory prince charming.
French drama based on the 1996 kidnapping and killing of seven monks in Algeria. A group of Trappist monks reside in the monastery of Tibhirine in Algeria, where they live in harmony with the largely muslim population. When a bloody conflict between Algeria's army and Muslim Jihadi insurgents disrupts the peace, they are forced to consider fleeing the monastery and deserting the villagers they have ministered to. In the face of deadly violence the monks wrestle with their faith and their convictions, eventually deciding to stay and help their neighbours keep the army and the insurgents at bay.
The Villager
French drama based on the 1996 kidnapping and killing of seven monks in Algeria. A group of Trappist monks reside in the monastery of Tibhirine in Algeria, where they live in harmony with the largely muslim population. When a bloody conflict between Algeria's army and Muslim Jihadi insurgents disrupts the peace, they are forced to consider fleeing the monastery and deserting the villagers they have ministered to. In the face of deadly violence the monks wrestle with their faith and their convictions, eventually deciding to stay and help their neighbours keep the army and the insurgents at bay.
Algeria, 1960. A section of French paratroopers are sent in search of a missing aircraft in the Algerian desert. The wreckage of the plane is quickly located, but there are no survivors, just a suitcase stamped “Top Secret”. Stormed by enemy soldiers, the troops find refuge in a strange abandoned citadel. Despite warnings from the place’s Guardian to leave at once, they wake up the Djinns, the evil spirits of the desert .
Abbas a retired postman, who has spent his life harming people, assuming no responsibility for others, is one day sentenced to death for involvement in a fatal accident. One day before his execution, a ghost visits him in his cell to sign a pact: he will gain freedom for 24 hours and will try to reconcile with all the people for whom he has hurt in the past, if he successful, he will avoid the death penalty. Will Abbass succeed in accomplishing his mission?
Barmida
A Moroccan-Norwegian co-production about the dark side of Casablanca (Casanegra). In a country where good virtues are the norm in public, Casanegra shows the vices: domestic violence, alcohol abuse and drug abuse. Meet Karim and Adil and their struggle in the big city.
Butcher Woman
The film tells the story of Said, an agricultural engineer , who one day decided to emigrate to Canada for improve their standard of living. But his bag will be stolen from him, which contains all the documents necessary for his trip. Said, accompanied by the sister of the thief, who recently returned from Canada, they begin to follow her brother among a group of villages.
La Tante
Habiba
The film tells the story of a man in his fifth decade called Jaafar, who earned a large fortune by exploiting the rich widows, where he marries them and steals their money before passing to another victim, hiding his evil behind his status and its false authority. His latest victim is an elderly woman named Mona who gained a lot of wealth after the death of her husband and lives with her son who is in his late thirties, and after Jaafar took Mona to write all of his properties in his name, he started a new relationship with a young girl and started the same tricks to get rid of Mona the elderly, which made her life an unbearable hell. Will the Jafar plan succeed or fail this time?
A young delinquent who has just come out of prison finds himself put to a difficult mission: to track a relative of an ex-detainee who lost his memory during the long years of his detention.
Moroccan filmmaker Narjiss Nejjar makes her feature debut with the drama Cry No More. Former prostitute Mina (Raouia) is released from prison after a 25-year sentence. Bus driver Fahd (Khalid Benchegra) returns her to the isolated Berber village of prostitutes. Because the only men allowed in are customers, Fahd pretends to be Mina's son. Fahd falls for Mina's angry daughter, Hala (Siham Assif), who wants to stop the village curse. Hala has a daughter of her own, Zinba Rafiqua Belhaj, who's about to undergo a traditional loss-of-virginity ritual. As she forms a plan to stop the sex work-cycle, Mina doesn't let Hala know her real identity, although the village elders in the mountain cliffs remember her. Cry No More was shown during the Director's Fortnight at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival.
