Fatima Hernadi (Raouia)
История
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
Сюжет повествует об эксперте по безопасности Сэм, которую нанимает богатая семья, чтобы она защитила Зои, избалованную наследницу их бизнес-империи. Вскоре на девушку открывают настоящую охоту, и Сэм остается ее единственным шансом на выживание.
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.
Действие происходит в Касабланке в Марокко. Во время семейного обеда у молоденькой девушки Софии начинает болеть живот, и ее двоюродная сестра Лина вдруг обнаруживает, что сестра рожает. В патриархальном обществе роды незамужней женщины это страшное преступление! Лина студент-медик, ей удается организовать роды Софии в больнице, но что делать дальше? Как быть с ребенком, как избежать позора, что рассказать родным?
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
Англия, XI век. Мать десятилетнего Роба Коула умирает в страшных мучениях: никто не знает ни природы её болезни, ни лекарства против неё. Маленький Роб, потрясенный до глубины души, во что бы то ни стало стремится разгадать эту тайну. Ему суждено пройти долгий путь, от Англии до Персии, его учителями становятся сначала обыкновенный шарлатан Барбер, а потом — великий лекарь Авиценна. Мудрый учитель видит в Робе необыкновенный талант к медицине, но советует ему не спешить делать вещи, которые не соответствуют веку. Но Роб ни перед чем не останавливается в своем желании научиться спасать людей от смерти, и над его собственной жизнью нависает угроза, ведь он дважды пошел против предрассудков: использовал для научных исследований тело человека и полюбил женщину, отданную в жены другому.
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.
Монастырь, расположенный в алжирских горах, 1990-е гг. Восемь французских монахов-христиан живут в мире и согласии со своими мусульманскими братьями. Но постепенно в регионе распространяется насилие и террор. Несмотря на растущую опасность, монахи хотят остаться в обители, чего бы им это ни стоило, и их решимость крепнет день ото дня…
The Villager
Монастырь, расположенный в алжирских горах, 1990-е гг. Восемь французских монахов-христиан живут в мире и согласии со своими мусульманскими братьями. Но постепенно в регионе распространяется насилие и террор. Несмотря на растущую опасность, монахи хотят остаться в обители, чего бы им это ни стоило, и их решимость крепнет день ото дня…
Действие фильма происходит в Саудовской Аравии. Отряд, состоящий из солдат иностранного легиона, отправлен на поиски пропавшего самолета с военными на борту. На месте крушения, среди погибших, находят кейс, с неизвестным содержимым, который пристегнут наручниками к важному чину. Попав в песчанную бурю, отряд выходит к неизвестной деревне, где начинают происходить мистические события, которые ставят под сомнение, реальность происходящего с ними. Но как не странно, все события, которые происходили в фильме, имели под собой реальную почву.
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.
