
Hakim Belabbes
2021Boujad: A Nest in the Heat
Hakim Belabbes
Hakim Belabbes
Boujad: A Nest In the Heat is a personal and anguishing look at issues of separation, independence and return. As director Hakim Belabbes chronicles his journey from his home in Chicago to visit his family in his hometown of Boujad in Morocco, his exploration of family relationships is self-conscious and at times painfully honest. We witness his most private moments with his family. Belabbes' film intimately explores the domestic spaces and religious rituals of intra-family relationships, especially when compounded by one member's break with traditional values.
Boujad: A Nest in the Heat

Shi ghadi ou shi jay
Hakim Belabbes
Mohamed Benbrahim, Houda Sedki
In a tiny Moroccan village, a young father plans his illegal crossing into Spain. He assures his wife that he will telephone her three days after his departure, to confirm his safe arrival in Spain. However, the call never comes. |
Boiling Dreams

Ashlaa
Hakim Belabbes
An unflinchingly intimate chronicle of the filmmaker’s family in Morocco, made from footage collected over more than a decade, In Pieces captures the passage of time across generations. It is a poetic account of a country, as Belabbes, an eccentric figure in Moroccan cinema, records the extent to which larger social and political change has—or has not—affected his modest family. Narrated in a hybrid of first-person plural and singular, the film gracefully shifts between fiction and nonfiction.
In Pieces

Pluie de sueur
Hakim Belabbes
Fatima Zahra Bennacer, Amine Ennaji
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.
Sweat Rain

Defining Love: A Failed Attempt
Hakim Belabbes
Zineb Ennajem, Hamza Abderrazik
Hamza and Zineb travel to a remote area in the Atlas mountains in Morocco to research for parts they’re supposed to play in an upcoming rendition of the legend of Isli and Tisselt – a tale of two lovers whose tears are believed to have created the two lakes that bear their name.
Defining Love: A Failed Attempt
