Mohamed Bastaoui
1954 - 2014Mohamed Bastaoui in arabic [محمد البسطاوي] was born in Mrizig on june 3,1954 and died in rabat on decembre 17, 2014 with a career spanning 30 years.
He begin his acting career in the theater on 1987, with a theater group called "Masrah al Yaoum", Then ten years later with group "The sun".
In cinema, his career started in the late 1990s, exactly on 1998 into a movie "Adieu Forain"
And then rolled his roles simple and complex in several films, serials and plays.
His departure left a great sadness for his friends in the profession or the Moroccan public in general.
The Blind Orchestra
Mohamed Mouftakir
Younes Megri, Mouna Fettou
In the early years of the reign of Hassan II, Houcine, a fan of the new king, is the director of a popular orchestra and the proud father of Mimou. This is a very particular troupe, male musicians who are sometimes forced to pretend that they are blind in order to play at parties reserved for women in conservative Moroccan families. But then young Minou runs into Chama, the neighbor’s new maid
The Blind Orchestra
في انتظار بازوليني
Daoud Aoulad-Syad
Mohamed Majd, Mohamed Bastaoui
Thami works as an extra in foreign films shot in a small village near Ouarzazate. He became a friend of Pier Paolo Pasolini, who shot in 1966 his movie Oedipus Rex in Morocco. Forty years later, an Italian crew comes to Ouarzazate to shoot a film. Thami thinks his friend Pasolini is back in town and thus triggering cinema fever in all the locals.
Waiting for Pasolini
Jeremiah
Harry Winer
Patrick Dempsey, Oliver Reed
The young Jeremiah grows up in a priest's family in the village of Anathoth, near Jerusalem. God appears to Jeremiah in different human guises on several occasions, and makes it clear to him that he has been selected to announce God's message to the people of Jerusalem
Jeremiah
Sotto Voce
Kamal Kamal
Amal Ayouch, Mohamed Bastaoui
During the Algerian war, the road to Beni Boussaid on the Morocco-Algeria border is obstructed by the Morice line, a 430-mile long belt that is electrified and heavily mined. Moussa, a Moroccan friend of the revolution, helps refugees across the mountains. However, he must go through Beni Boussaid when he finds out that the path he usually takes is no longer safe. Hans, a Communist militant of the GDR, loses a leg on the way, while trying to remove a mine from a passageway. Normally, the wounded and sick are put to rest, but Hans is not a Muslim and cannot be a martyr.
Sotto Voce
Ayadin Khachina
Mohamed Asli
Mohamed Bastaoui, Abdessamad Miftah El Kheir
Mustapha is a forty-year-old barber in Casablanca. His clients are retired high-ranking government officials, former cabinet ministers and power brokers in Morocco. On the side, Mustapha has an underground business "facilitating" paperwork, using his privileged access to these retired bigwigs to grease the wheels of bureaucracy. While his operation thrives, Mustapha keeps a shameful secret: he is illiterate, and has hired Said to assist him with managing appointments and tracking transactions. He does not know that Said is being paid to monitor his underground dealings.
Rough Hands
Bye-Bye Souirty
Daoud Aoulad-Syad
Hassan Essakali, Mohamed Bastaoui
The nomadic life of Moroccan carnival performers forms the basis of this debut from director Daoud Aoulad-Syad. Rabi, a female impersonator who dances with traveling fairs, teams up with Kacem, who hires him to ballyhoo his gambling concession. While Rabi's lack of romantic interest in women befuddles Kacem's son, he does strike up a friendship with a schoolteacher (Nezha Rahile), who in her way is as much of a misfit as Rabi.
Bye-Bye Souirty
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
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 ...
WWW: What a Wonderful World
Paris or Perish
Reem Kherici
Reem Kherici, Cécile Cassel
Maya is living the ultimate fashionistas dream: she is working as a stylist for one of the French trend setters, in the capital of haute-couture: Paris. One of the IT girls of fashion, shes following her dreams until one night, when her life takes a sudden turn: shes being deported back to Morocco, after being stopped for over speeding, because her Visa expired some time ago. So in no more than 24 hours, shes deported back to her family and original country. The strong cultural shock and the judgmental differences are pushing the woman to obtain back her place in the city of dreams and her dreams, no matter the costs. But that doesn't mean she will have to return alone, as she finds other things also among her way back to the city.
Paris or Perish
كنوز الأطلس
Mohamed Abbazi
Mohamed Bastaoui, Mohamed Khouyi
In Morocco, just before modern times, Ould Bah is the eldest of a powerful man reigning on a kasbah on the side of the Saharian Atlas. A spoiled child, he was excluded from the succession of his younger brother. Ould Bah then decides to bend the spell ...
Atlas treasures
