Faouzi Bensaïdi

Dheepan

Jacques Audiard

Antonythasan Jesuthasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan

Three people who have lost everything, a soldier tired of fighting, a young woman and a little girl, pose as a family to escape the civil war in Sri Lanka. They emigrate to France and settle in a chaotic neighborhood on the outskirts of Paris, where apparently the law no longer exists; but they, who barely know each other, struggle to survive there, even when the ghosts of war begin to haunt them again.

عود الريح

Daoud Aoulad-Syad

Mohamed Majd, Faouzi Bensaïdi

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.

Loin

André Téchiné

Stéphane Rideau, Lubna Azabal

Serge is a long distance lorry driver between Morocco andEurope. In Tangier, he tries to reconcile with his former girlfriend, Sarah. She has refused to have anything to do with him since her mother’s death and intends to join her brother in Canada. Serge appeals to Sarah’s protector, a young Arab named Saïd, to allow him to meet up with Sarah, promising in return to smuggle Saïd into Europe...

Sofia

Meryem Benm'Barek-Aloïsi

Maha Alemi, Lubna Azabal

Sofia, 20, lives with her parents in Casablanca. Suffering from pregnancy denial, she finds herself breaking the law by giving birth to a baby out of wedlock. The hospital gives her 24 hours to provide the father's papers before informing the authorities…

Mort à vendre

Faouzi Bensaïdi

Fehd Benchemsi, Fouad Labiad

In Tetouan, at the northern edge of Morocco, three young men decide to rob a jewelry store. The heist goes awry, and their destinies part drastically.

Les Bienheureux

Sofia Djama

Sami Bouajila, Nadia Kaci

Algiers, a few years after the civil war. Amal and Samir have decided to celebrate their twentieth wedding anniversary in a restaurant. While on their way, their share their views on Algeria: Amal talks about lost illusions and Samir about the necessity to cope with them. At the same time, their son Fahim and his friends Feriel and Reda are wandering about in a hostile Algiers about to steal their youth.

Interdependence

Bettina Oberli, Salomé Lamas

Thor Kristjansson, Hera Hilmar

Started in 2018, the project – comprised of 11 segments by filmmakers from all around the world – reflects on the intertwined relationship between human society and nature that is aggravated by climate change on multiple scales, hinting at possible solutions.

La falaise

Faouzi Bensaïdi

In a small village near a beach, Hakim and his little brother Saïd do odd jobs (whitewash a tomb, resell empty bottles).

Le mur

Faouzi Bensaïdi

Zakaria Atifi, Reda Benouatir

The brief and unending story of a wall and its encounters with man.

وليلي

Faouzi Bensaïdi

Nadia Kounda, Faouzi Bensaïdi

Volubilis is a tale of love in a world of despair, of beauty among the ruins. In the Moroccan city of Meknès, recently married Abdelkader and Malika struggle to make ends meet. They dream of leaving the family house and finally starting a life of their own together. But one day at work, Abdelkader gets mixed up in a violent incident that will turn their lives upside down.

Mille Mois

Faouzi Bensaïdi

Fouad Labied, Nezha Rahile

1981, Morocco. A village in the Atlas mountains. A city in the distance. A child. A family facing its destiny.

Saint Laurent

Bertrand Bonello

Gaspard Ulliel, Jérémie Renier

1967-1976. As one of history's greatest fashion designers entered a decade of freedom, neither came out of it in one piece.

Goodbye Morocco

Nadir Moknèche

Lubna Azabal, Radivoje Bukvić

Tangier. Dounia decides to sell on the black market the antiques uncovered on the building site she manages. She hopes to raise enough money to be able to leave Morocco with her son, who she hardly ever sees since her divorce. The death of a worker disrupts her plan...

WWW: What a Wonderful World

Faouzi Bensaïdi

Faouzi Bensaïdi, Nezha Rahile

Casablanca, a city of contrasts, modern and traditional. Kamel is a murderer for hire who receives his encrypted assignments online. After his executions, he usually calls Souad, an occasional prostitute. But the phone is always answered by her friend Kenza, traffic officer and responsible for the largest roundabout in the city. Kamel soon falls in love with that voice and begins to seek her. Meanwhile, Hicham, a computer hacker, who dreams of emigrating to Europe, is infiltrated by chance in Kamel plans ...

مكتوب

Nabil Ayouch

Rachid El Ouali, Amal Chabli

A young woman attending a conference in Tangier with her husband is kidnapped and raped, but rebuilds her relationship with her husband on a trip to the south of Morocco.

Short Plays

Vincent Gallo, Pablo Stoll

Sami Samir, Kiki Sugino

Football seen through the eyes of some of the best directors of the world.