Aïcha Mahmah
2021
Pour la Cause
Hassan Benjelloun
Ramzi Maqdisi, Julie Dray
Karim a Palestinian man and Sirine a French Women have to cross the border separating morocco from Algeria in order to join their band and give a concert in Oran . Because of the absurdity of the rules at the national borders, they find themselves trapped on a bridge in the middle of No Man's Land.
For the Cause
Waqa'i maghribia
Moumen Smihi
Aïcha Mahmah, Tarik Jamil
In Moroccan Chronicles, set in the ancient city of Fez, a working class mother, abandoned by her husband who has emigrated to Europe, tells three tales to her just-circumcised ten-year-old son. In the first, Smihi re-stages the Marrakech market scene from Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much, in which a monkey trainer makes children dance for tourists. In the second, two lovers meet on the ramparts of Orson Welles’s Essaouira locations for Othello and speak of their own forbidden love. And in the third, set in Smihi’s home town of Tangier, an old sailor dreams of vanquishing a sea monster: the Gibraltar ferry that connects Europe to Africa.
Moroccan Chronicles
طريق العيالات
Farida Bourquia
Mouna Fettou, Aïcha Mahmah
Amina is on a trip to the North where her husband is imprisoned for a drug case. When her car breaks down, she meets Lalla Rahma, an old lady who must also go to the North to make sure that her son did not die while illegally crossing the sea to Europe.
Women's Road
سيدة الفجر
Abdeslam Kelai
Meryem Raoui, Mohamed Majd
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?
Sayidat Al Fajr
