Ahmed Bouanani’s Al-Manabe' al-Arba'a (1977), a very low-budget fantastical adaption of a poetic fable, features his wife Naïma Saoudi, who also worked as an art director and set designer. It is his only film in colour, which convinced him that his vocation was to work in black and white.
Mother
Holanda /// En Amsterdam se cruzan, de manera decisiva, las vidas de personajes muy heterogéneos: una pareja de ricos estadounidenses, una familia de criminales holandeses, una pareja francesa de gays, una familia de obreros alemanes y un inmigrante ilegal marroquí y su hermano menor.
Mother
In one of the Moroccan villages, the competition is for those who are elected to run the village affairs, and then agree on the establishment of a football team as a criterion for competition.
Batoul
The film is about the suffering of a mother with one of her sons who asks her to sell the family home, one of the traditional old houses, to repay his debts, but she categorically refuses to bow to his request in favor of the "commandment" of her husband, who recommended before his death to keep the house.
