Tag: Moroccan Cinema
Lingering Influence: Meryem Benm’Barek Filming ‘Behind the Palm Trees’
A project initially scheduled for a 2023 shoot has finally been greenlit, with Cineuropa confirming that Meryem Benm’Barek has been filming her sophomore feature...
Interview: Asmae El Moudir – The Mother of All Lies
It's a hybrid docu made on the small scale and dealing with a past that is pieced together through memory and a maquette, the...
Interview: Sofia Alaoui – Animalia
When the balance of the universe is disturbed, the hierarchy of nature's totem can be reconfigured. If the earth's creatures are more closely attuned...
Slaughterhouse-Two: Asmae El Moudir’s Moving into Rabat for “Holy Cow”
Not to be confused with Louise Courvoisier's excellent feature debut which just received its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in the Un...
Interview: Halima Ouardiri – The Camel Driving School (Work in Progress)
Cutting her teeth on the short form for just over a decade with award-winning trio of films which have premiered at Rotterdam, the Berlinale...
Interview: Kamal Lazraq – Les meutes (Hounds)
Seeping with film noir elements, but working with a naturalism and with a moody underworld thriller genre with a certain dose of spirituality and...
Interview: Faouzi Bensaïdi – Déserts
The very first image we find in Déserts informs the viewer that we need directions and that its the elements that have a stronger...
Les meutes (Hounds) | 2023 Cannes Film Festival Review
Wash Away Your Sins: The Apple Falls a Bit Further Out From the Tree in Lazraq’s Stunning Debut
Father and son learn the power of...
The Unknown Saint | 2019 Cannes Film Festival Review
Gimme the Loot: Money is the Root of Good and Evil in Aljem’s Debut
Love the sinner and not the sin seems to be the...
Interview: Meryem Benm’Barek – Sofia | 2018 Cannes Film Festival
By way of the young, unmarried Moroccan titular protagonist, Meryem Benm'Barek cuts her teeth with a piece that looks at the unwanted pregnancy under the...