Mohamed Majd
Nascimento : 1939-11-30, Casablanca, Morocco
Morte : 2013-01-25
História
Born in 1940, Mohamed Majd took his first steps on the stage in the late 1950s. After 10 years acting in theaters, he turned to the cinema and acted in the shorts of Abdelmajid R'chich then alongside Anthony Quinn in the historical epic : The Message (1975), Moustapha Akkad. Renowned Moroccan actor at the age of 47, he gained international fame, By Casting Director Ahmed Boulane to play along side with jhon Hurt in a Richard Stroud movie Deadline. and in Philippe de Broca The Thousand and One Nights (1989).
A short fiction about a man who fights against the seizure of his land by powerful developers.
Moulay
Hakim
A Moroccan fisherman sets off on an epic journey towards Europe on his wind surfboard. But the pursuit of dreams does not come without sacrifice.
High Priest
Um jovem aprendiz de arqueólogo entra de cabeça em uma perigosa expedição nas areias ancestrais do Egito. Para conseguir descobrir seus mistérios, ele vai ter que se livrar de armadilhas mortais e monstros de outras eras. Sem avisos, ele descobre um segredo mais antigo do que a história, liberando uma ameaça que ninguém poderia prever. E pior: este pode ser o início do fim do mundo.
When 17-year-old Ben visits his father Heinrich in Marrakech, it is the start of an adventurous journey through a foreign country with a picturesque charm and a rough beauty where everything appears possible — including the chance that father and son will lose each other for good, or find one another again.
Hadj
Farid, a young 26-year-old Frenchman, must travel to Algeria to save his father's house. While discovering this country in which he had never before set foot, he succumbs to the charms of a host of astonishing characters whose humour and simplicity affect him deeply. Amongst these is his cousin, a bright and lively young man who has the dream of one day going to France...
Jefe
Malak, a teen girl, discovers she's pregnant. Rejected by the baby's dad, she faces a world that rejects her for being a single mum.
Abbas Bertale
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.
Hussein
A Fonte das Mulheres apresenta uma história que se passa em uma aldeia situada entre a África e o Oriente Médio, onde as mulheres são responsáveis por buscarem a água utilizada pelas famílias. Para isso, precisam caminhar grandes distâncias embaixo de sol escaldante, enquanto seus maridos ficam em casa bebendo e jogando. Um dos habitantes do vilarejo fica noivo de Leila, uma francesa que mora há algum tempo na região. A jovem não aceita a tradição e decide pôr fim a isso, exigindo que os homens passem a buscar água. Por se tratar de uma comunidade extremamente machista, a solução encontrada é fazer “greve de sexo”, o que, entre islamistas radicais, causa muitos problemas.
Old man
Three friends drive from Holland to Morocco to deliver a taxi to a family friend, but the trip turns out more complicated than expected.
Moroccan Hotel Owner
Hanna foi criada nas terras geladas da Finlândia por seu pai, um ex-agente da CIA. Treinada para se tornar a assassina perfeita, a jovem leva uma vida completamente diferente daquela das outras garotas da sua idade. Certo dia, seu pai lhe dá uma missão arriscada e ela precisa atravessar a Europa enganando agentes muito experientes. Mas logo alguns segredos vêm à tona e Hanna começa a questionar seus atos.
Man from Chamseddine #2
Nawal, uma mulher moribunda do Oriente Médio que vive em Montreal, deixa cartas para seus filhos gêmeos para serem lidas quando ela falecer. Jeanne deve entregar a dela para o pai que nunca conheceu e Simon deve entregar a dele para o irmão que nunca soube que tinha. Os irmãos viajam para o Oriente Médio separados e vivenciam atos de brutalidade, descobrem uma história familiar surpreendente e têm revelações sobre si mesmos.
The grandfather
In a farm in the North, lives a saddened family : the grandfather, the mother locked in his memories, and two twin children. Their daughter Malika drowned in the village river, seven years ago, according to their belief, but in reality she left with a man. Only Mohamed, her husband, knows the truth. Death will come, in the guise of a beautiful woman wearing white, bringing anxiety to this peaceful home; she comes to pick up Mohamed, this one will be spared by the children... That night, Mohamed reports from the river a young stranger, Hiba, who will replace little by little Malika... ... During the festival of Achoura, Death returns. Is it for Hiba?
A father searches for his son after he disappeared from view, especially after doubts were raised about his possibility of joining extremist groups
Following an unpunished crime, a village of fishermen in northern Morocco is rising up around Simo against the local drug boss.
Thami works as an extra in foreign films shot in a small village near Ouarzazate. He became a friend of Pier Paolo Pasolini, who shot in 1966 his movie Oedipus Rex in Morocco. Forty years later, an Italian crew comes to Ouarzazate to shoot a film. Thami thinks his friend Pasolini is back in town and thus triggering cinema fever in all the locals.
Mokhtar
Moroccan TV movie, its events revolve around the situation of a poor family living in one of the marginal neighbourhoods in the old city of Casablanca.
Bédouin
Esta é uma história de dois casos de amor. Um amor de um pai pelos seus cinco filhos e o amor de um filho pelo pai. Um amor tão forte capaz de fazê-lo viver uma mentira. Uma mística fábula sobre os dias modernos, C.R.A.Z.Y expõe a beleza, poesia e loucura do espírito humano e todas as suas contradições. O filho, Zac Beaulieu, nascido em 25 de dezembro de 1960, é diferente de todos os irmãos e tenta desesperadamente encaixar-se. Durante 20 anos, a vida o guiará por caminhos inesperados e surpreendentes, levando-o a aceitar sua verdadeira natureza e, ainda mais importante, levando seu pai a amá-lo como realmente é.
The Father
Reda, summoned to accompany his father on a pilgrimage to Mecca, complies reluctantly - as he preparing for his baccalaureat and, even more important, has a secret love relationship. The trip across Europe in a broken-down car is also the departure of his father: upon arrival in Mecca, both Reda and his father are not the characters they were at the start of the movie. Avoiding the hackneyed theme of the return to the homeland, the film uses the departure to renew a connection between two generation.
A young man has to return in Morocco to bury his father.
Grandfather
1981, Morocco. A village in the Atlas mountains. A city in the distance. A child. A family facing its destiny.
Kamel Raoui, a young police inspector in Tanger, investigates the murder of drug-dealer Hakim Tahiri. The victim's mistress Touria, just living for her fatally-ill younger brother Pipo, is considered the main suspect, so Kamel learns more and more about their hard life circumstances. During the observation, the sexually-confused Kamel falls in love with the young woman, but realizes the imminence for Touria and Pipo too late.
Le père
Samy, a young Franco-Algerian, hits a policeman at a roadblock and must flee France. He takes refuge with his grandfather in Algeria. But he does not speak the local language, and everything is strange to him, even members of his family: Nadia his cousin, a pregnant widow; and Qu'Issam another cousin, who was expelled from France, and hates everything French. Samy's grandfather lives in the memory of a piece of land that no longer produces any wealth. Samy will never give the reason for his presence, but the chaotic climate of the country will revive the chaos that is in him.
A young lawyer, defending her father, the accused, whom she sees since she was a child.
Mustapha, a young Moroccan living on small shots, meets a couple of Spanish tourists. The latter dragged him into a heavy traffic of hashish. Forced to flee his country, he finds himself on a makeshift boat, among other men. They are determined to clandestinely reach the Spanish shores in the hope of a bright future.
Tahar
Tahar is a retired blacksmith living with his son from his first marriage. After seeing his late second wife in a dream, he decides to visit her grave, in Azemmour. In the trip, he meets Driss who is going to Essaouira, looking for his mother whom he has never known after receiving a letter about her. The two men go to Marrakech together where Driss gets a combination motorbike that Tahar calls "wind horse". And they begin their journey together, first to Azemmour, then to Essaouira, looking for their past.
Officier jaâjâ
The film is a police story centered on the character of "Ould Hamriya", a young man who lived a difficult childhood and a social situation that led him to the professionalism of theft and robbery of luxury villas with two partners, which created confusion among the security men who became after him everywhere
Eliakim
Para alertar o povo de Jerusalém da destruição de sua cidade, Jeremias (Patrick Dempsey), abandona sua familia, mesmo perseguido e chamado de traidor pelo povo judaico, o profeta não abandona a cidade e testemunha sua invasão e a prisão do povo pelos persas.
Hanani
Davi, agora um homem velho, ainda é rei de Israel. Entre seus filhos, o ambicioso Adonias e o inteligente Salomão. Os dois jovens são rivais ferozes, pois ambos são herdeiros em potencial do trono e apenas um pode ser bem-sucedido. Durante uma expedição de caça, Adonijah desafia seu irmão mais novo, Salomão, a uma corrida de carros. Enquanto Salomão, apesar de corajoso, ainda mantém um pouco de cautela, o temerário Adonijah está ansioso por vencer a todo custo e perde o controle de sua carruagem. Salomão leva Adonias, gravemente ferido, de volta a Jerusalém. No caminho, eles encontram a atraente Abishag, que apesar de sua juventude é versada no uso de ervas medicinais. Ela realmente consegue ajudar o príncipe. Adonias se apaixona por Abishag, mas Bate-Seba organiza as coisas para que ela trabalhe para Davi, esperando que sua juventude, sua beleza e seus poderes de cura aliviem o sofrimento do velho rei.