Amine Ennaji

Zodi, a 12 years old nomad, find an orphan baby dromedary in the desert. He takes in the animal, feeds it, calls it Téhu and becomes its best friend.

Hayat is released after serving a long prison sentence. She returns to her hometown in northern Morocco, where she finds herself faced with a brother who refuses to welcome her for fear of shame. Hayat merely wishes to see her son so she can explain the truth to him. She meets Amal, who works in a fruit factory and takes care of Houda, her sister who is two years her junior and suffers from a severe disability. The courage and strength of these three women drives them forward in the face of exclusion, exploitation and marginalization.

The residents of a small Moroccan city endure separate lives while knowing the same cycles of burden and small joys. Wives and husbands, mothers and fathers, sons and daughters maneuver their way through mourning as death takes loved ones and life insists on moving forward. Here, letting go is a challenge for both the dead and the living. The people of this city share the same world, but don't always know when they live in each other's lives, helping and harming each other. Connected by friendship, proximity, and blood, they both destroy and support each other. Through weddings, funerals, murders, forgiveness, love, new birth, and sacrifice, the living build community and hope. Meanwhile, the souls of the dead linger to watch over loved ones.

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.

Morocco, from the past to the present. Five people who are connected to each other – Abdallah, Salima, Joe, Hakim, and Inès – without realizing it. Different faces, different struggles, but one same breath. One city, Casablanca as a fragment of reality, as the myth of a film entirely shot in Hollywood studios, which reality has come back to claim.

A both empathic and poetic drama set in the Moroccan countryside. Family, poverty, work and pride are the most important motivations of M’Barek, a poor farmer who fights to pay off his debts so that he can keep his land.

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.

Francia /// El escritor marroquí Abdellah Taïa ofrece una historia casi autobiográfica sobre un joven licenciado que deberá descifrar una intriga sexual, racial y política después de su llegad a Ginebra.

Lucie viaja al Sahara con su prometido David para disfrutar de un romántico viaje. Pero, por motivos de trabajo, David se ve obligado a quedarse en el hotel, así que Luci decide hacer una excursión por su cuenta con un joven aventurero. Sin embargo, una serie de incidentes, los dejará tirados solos en medio del abrasador desierto.

Jean-Claude Carrière coescribe la adaptación de la novela de Atiq Rahimi, también guionista y director, que narra la historia de una mujer, en un país de Oriente Medio, que tiene que quedarse en casa a cuidar de su marido, herido en una reyerta y en estado de coma. La mujer, joven y con dos hijas, alterna el tiempo que pasa en la casa, evitando a las guerrillas que siguen luchando en la calle, con el tiempo que pasa con su tía, una mujer liberada que se queda a cargo de las niñas.

Moroccan film tells the story of four men at the age of sixty, living in the retirement home in Marrakech : Issa, Seddik, Ahmed and Taher. One day they decided to go on a trip to Tangier, on the way they fall into many problems.

In Casablanca, Ali, Hmida, Mbarek and Messoud are four unemployed youths who spend their time dreaming of a better life in the Netherlands. One day, Hmida falls on a specialist of illegal immigration, Ouchen. The four friends manage to collect enough money only for the departure of one of them, Hmida. Several months later, it still has not given any sign of life. Ali, Mbarek and Messoud discovering that he is not in Holland but in Afghanistan, they decide to go looking for him on the road to Kabul.

On the order of their spiritual leader, three young Islamists kidnap a group of actors who are about to go on tour with their latest show.