Imane, une jeune adolescente de 14 ans vivant à Taroudant, dans la plaine du Souss, joyeuse et férue de comédies musicales indiennes, s'ennuie et rêve de découvrir la cité balnéaire d'Agadir, non loin sur la côte atlantique. Leïla, la fille d'une voisine qui y réside, lors de l’une de ses nombreuses visites familiales à Taroudant, lui propose de s'y rendre. Une fois sur place, un tout autre monde que celui dont Imane rêvait lui est révélé…
Movie business is a powerful magnet for the inhabitants of Ouarzazate, Morocco. Many are those who dream of making it and getting rich thanks to the film industry, but it is just a decoy. Their salaries are still meager, and they make just enough to survive, even when they get real roles in major budget productions. The documentary follows in the footsteps of a young man who worked with Brad Pitt on Babel. Even so, he still lives modestly in the hills near Ouarzazate.
Brisé par la perte de son enfant, Nyla Jayde, une brillante avocate de la défense, travaille sur une affaire impliquant une légende marocaine du XIV siècle, un esprit vengeur nommé « Kandisha ».
Can cultural heritage and ancient customs help conserve the environment and biodiversity? This is what this documentary shows as it offers us images of typical plants from Morocco.
Taking the expedition of a group of Frenchmen following in the tracks of their fellow countrymen as a starting point, Bougafer 33 is a journey through time and space that tells of the battle that took place in 1933 at the foot of the Bougafer Mountain during the war Morocco fought against the French-Spanish colonial conquest. Eyewitness accounts, stock footage, written tales and songs all contribute to reinstate the history of the last resistants of the Ait Atta. An epic ordeal of fierce and highly organized battles in which women and children took part in the name of freedom.
In Pieces is a posy of images taken over the last ten years that show family moments, reflections on life and death, on disappointments and successes, on aging and exile. This family chronicle becomes the chronicle of a country, of a society, as observed by Hakim Belabbes from inside and outside.
Hajar and Badr are two boys who have grown up on the streets, something that has left them with permanent marks. At the age of ten, Hajar took over for his mother when she died, taking care of his little sister. Badar grew up with his grandfather, a Gnaoui musician who traveled the city streets. They meet at a circus training school, a demanding place that will make them change radically. They start their new lives that necessarily begins with walking the tightrope.
Morocco receives many emigrants whose ultimate destination is Europe. About a thousand of these migrants hold a political refugee card from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Agency (UNHCR). However, even those with this card face challenges.
Aziz dirige une usine de confection qui emploie une cinquantaine d'ouvrières qu'il terrorise. Le jour où sa femme découvre qu'il peut aussi être un gentleman lorsqu'il s'agit de convaincre une cliente étrangère, elle décide de lui jeter un sort.
Dans un petit village de pêcheurs près d'Agadir. Il y a sept ans que la majorité des hommes ont péri en mer. Depuis ce jour, les femmes sont tristes et le village se meurt.
When Abdelsellem gets out of prison, his friend Nourredine is waiting for him. They spend the night celebrating their freedom and reencounter in the streets of Tangiers. During their wanderings, they meet up with Marcela, a Brazilian woman of extreme and suicidal tendencies, who draws them inexorably down into her madness. The three characters plunge into the narrow city streets meeting glue-sniffers, hash-smokers, illegal immigrants, and letting themselves be dragged down into what seems like hell.
Casablanca, 1960. Henri and Brahim are childhood friends despite their different religions. They are managing the sawmill their fathers created and ran successfully for years. Their wives, Ruth and Fatima are working together in an insurance company, managed by Mr. Ouaknine, who is about to brad his estates to make his aliyah to Israel so he can live with his grandchildren. Shoshana Bouzaglo, a very religious and traditional widow, is really upset about her daughter Eliane dating Mehdi, a Muslim boy from her technical school. His father, Mr. Benchekroun, is a successful businessman who specializes in purchasing the estates of Jews who are brading their properties so they can emigrate. Mr. Benchetrit, an Israeli officer working with the Alliance Agency, is prompting the Jews to leave Morocco, pretending they aren't safe anymore. Mrs Attar is reluctantly leaving Morocco for Israel, following her son and his wife and kids. As they are leaving, she feels uprooted from her homeland. When Mama Hanna, Ruth's mother, is attacked after a synagogue service, Ruth and Henri decide that it may be the time for them to leave also.
Maarouf est un cordonnier marié à Aîcha, qui lui rendait la vie impossible en le maltraitant continuellement. Un jour, voulant assommer son mari par un marteau, Aicha a manqué son coup mais fait apparaître un génie qui expédie Maarouf dans une nouvelle vie dans la ville d'Orlando aux États-Unis d'Amérique.
Dans un jeu de miroir permanent, la vie et l’œuvre de Driss Chraïbi se confondent. Comment a-t-il réussi à investir la langue de l’ancien colonisateur de façon si irrévocable, à en faire l’expression originale et sincère de ses propres racines revendiquées, et à la rendre tour à tour arabe, andalouse ou amazigh dans toute la richesse de sa propre création?
Amin, qui vit en France, revient au Maroc pour revoir son oncle mourant : l’homme qui l’a élevé depuis la mort de sa mère et auquel il n'a jamais pardonné sa violence et sa cruauté.