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- A father and son in the suburbs of Casablanca get by on petty crimes for a local mob. When a kidnapping goes wrong, they must find a way to dispose of the body.
- In 1975, 10-year-old Amar lives in a village in northern Morocco with his violent uncle, waiting for the unlikely return of his mother, who has left for Belgium. He finds a friend in Carmen, his neighbor, who is a Spanish exile and who works as an usher at the village cinema. Carmen helps him discover a world previously unknown to him.
- Two Young musicians want to travel across North Africa in a quest for the true Berber sound. In the middle of their journey, they meet a woman journalist who makes them decide to change their route in order to play music with the Tuaregs in northern Mali, but her intentions are not clear. When they realize that, it is too late.
- A film with a comedic tempo, but also the story of a clash between men used to their privileges and women fighting for their rights. Fadma and her family spend the holidays in a small village in Morocco. Soon Fadma leads a rebellion of the local women, compelled to both work and take care of the households for centuries.
- The Ait Atta tribe preserves their ancestral right of access to the agdal, a communal land management system that dates back hundreds of years in Morocco. The film follows Ben Youssef family's arduous transhumant journey from the desert-like landscape of Nkob to the green pastures of Agdal Igourdane, throughout uneven terrain of steep climbs and descents of the High Atlas mountains. A sensorial ethnographic story on the incredible movement and (im)mobilities of the family and their herd, the film juxtaposes the hopes and constraints, obligations and sacrifices of a family torn apart between their traditions and their need to adapt to modern life. Stretching over the past, present and the future, the film provides an inter-generational perspective on the essence and the very challenges of nomadism within an ever transforming Moroccan society.
- In Morocco, unmarried women who become pregnant still risk criminal prosecution and social exclusion. The Oum El Banine association in Agadir, headed by 62-year-old feminist Mahjouba Edbouche, is there to support them.
- This film, is about the courage and the determination of a young woman in djurdjur''as mountain in Algeria, fighting for her ancestor land during the earlier years of french occupation.
- Soleiman is a fisherman in an isolated island in northern Morocco (Al Hoceima). He lives with his wife, Aisha, and his son, Ismael who is sick with cancer. Soleiman and Aicha are in love and form a happy family... until one day Eva appears, and is captivated by Soleiman. Overtaken by jealousy Eric puts an end to their romantic vacations, leaving Eva behind and taking with him her passport and the rest of her possessions Now, more than ever, Eva will need Soleiman's presence. Gradually, Soleiman falls in love with Eva, disengages from his wife and starts drifting away from his son who is about to die. Aisha is unsettled and concerned by Eva's sudden and unjustified presence, causing marital conflicts with Soleiman. Despite this, Aisha makes an effort to keep her marriage alive for the sake of her son, who needs his father at this critical point in his life. Its a dramatic story of jealousy, love and deceits that only lead to hell.
- In a village in the High Atlas Mountains, at the crossroad between tradition and change, two sisters experience the last seasons of childhood.
- A young Moroccan man fulfills his dream of going to America only to find himself caught in a triangle of two warring mafia families and the FBI.
- A man must see his wife marry another in the hopes of regaining her love.
- In the northeast of contemporary Morocco, Zeinab, a young wife watches her husband leave the country to go underground the day after their wedding. Zeinab is expecting a child. While she is waiting for her husband to return she lulls the foetus to sleep. Time goes by and the husband does not come back.
- Khadija, a woman born in Amsterdam to Riffian parents, has not returned to Beni Chikar for 20 years. A small village near Melilla of which they are native and where they used to go every summers. Personal circumstances prevented her from returning there all the time. After this long absence, she returned to the village to reconcile with her past and her origins, but especially to learn more about her idol, her paternal grandmother, Mamma Allal. A strong and courageous woman that all the men of the village feared and who remains a living legend to this day.
- In 2011, the villagers of Imider shut down a water pipeline to Africa's biggest silver mine to save their oasis. Eight years later, they sing while harvesting the fruits of their militancy.
- From 1958 to 1959, residents of the Rif provinces suffered fierce repression in response to their uprising against the creation of the new Moroccan state. In their eyes, the centralist politics of the kingdom destroyed their political, social and economic structure. Fear settled in the Moroccan Rif for more than 50 years by creating a real taboo around the subject."Rif 58-59: Briser le Silence"
- Louisa, a mother in her forties, undergoes plastic surgery to lose some weight but she has a serious hemorrhage during the operation. The operation is stopped and she needs blood to be saved. Louisa discovers after leaving the clinic that her son is HIV-positive and that he has been a heroin addict. Louise decides to look for the person responsible for her son's addiction. She will enter a terrifying world from which it will be difficult for her to get out.
- Away from home, a group of young people survive without job and stable residence. The passage of time is transforming them. Immersed in constant scape and full of energy, they suddenly will face a fact that will test them.
- Alhoceima, Northern Morocco, has become the last reduct for thousands of Berbers in their last attempt to reach the European costline.
- In one of the Berber villages lives a man who claims to know the paranormal and magic matters, and the people of the village believe all his lies. But one day a blessed man named Sidi Mohamed Ouli comes to the village and tries to show all the tricks that the lying man comes up with.
- Waiting, waiting, waiting. This is the main feature of the lives of a group of men and women, brought together by fate, who crossed the sea in search of a better life. They live in a no man's land, somewhere on the coast of Spain between long rows of hermetically sealed greenhouses. Every now and again they get some work, but most of their time is spent in little ramshackle shacks built from pallets, bits of tarpaulin and anything else they can lay their hands on. They have no interaction with the rest of the world at all, although they occasionally refer to some shady lawyers who are supposed to be working on residence permits. The camera underlines this exercise in patience by always observing from the same position. Wait and see what happens. A woman sits next to a bottle of water. A man lies on a bed, or folds some children's clothes into a tiny pile. Calling home is a highlight: things are going well, I don't have much work, I don't have my permit yet, I'll have to stay another year, I miss you. During such conversations, their inertia falls away and the migrants become human again.
- Tafdnar, a small fishing village near Agadir; one day seven years ago most of the men died at sea. And ever the place has been in a kind of trance. The women who lost their husbands, brothers and sons have never gotten over it. The village is nothing but sadness. the women need to find a way to keep living, but they have succumbed to a deep depression that is destroying them. Amghar, the headman of the village, is one of the very few men who are still alive. He is a notorious alcoholic, but, he, nevertheless, tries to preserve some sort of normality in the village. And there is also Daoud, a young man who dreams of going fishing on the open sea.
- Shots, scenery and traditions of some Tuareg (plural of Targi) tribes, the Berber pre-Arab native camel-mounted nomads of the Sahara and bordering Sahel region. Their favorite pastime are stories, mixing truth, dreams, legends and poetic liberty, mainly told by the elderly and professional "griot", in tents or by the campfire, often accompanied on the single-string imzhad bow instrument. The central concept is "asshak", their ancient honor code, which stands for virtue, Allah's will and respect for life.
- About the Algerian revolution of liberation from France, that lasted from 1954 until 1962, the testimony of a group of Mujahideen from the region of Smash (the third historical region) in the state of Bouira.
- Casablanca and Chicago are Sister Cities, both have been promoting friendship and common goals for decades.
- At the outbreak of the Second World War, two friends, Mokrane and Menach, abruptly interrupt their studies and return to their remote native Kabylian village of Tagsa. While waiting to be drafted into the French Army they have time to woo. Mokrane falls for beautiful Aazi and soon marries her only to find out that she can bear no child. Menach, on his part, is stongly attracted to Davda, but the latter is already married to a rich merchant...Happiness does not seem to be in store for the two former students...
- In a village of Sous where traditions want the girls to wear the veil, the threads of the canvas intertwine and cross to weave the story of the marriage of two friends Brahim back in his village to get married, and Houssaine a farmer in the village, each marrying the other's sister - On the Net a love affair was born between Youssef and Zaina who decide to get married without ever having met, - as if the young people are repeating their parents' story in order to to right a wrong committed in the past .
- Ramadan month diaries and traditions in the small desert Berber region of Mzab Valley , southern Algeria . The film also demonstrates the history of Mozabit Berbers , their social system , traditions , values and religious life .
- Chirine, a Moroccan prostitute in her 30s, falls in love with a young painter from a high-ranking family. In order to try and lead a normal life like other respectable women, she tries to escape the nighttime world in which she lives. However, societal prejudices make it difficult for Chirine to escape her past.
- The performance consists of a group of horse riders, all wearing traditional clothes, who charge along a straight path at the same speed so as to form a line, and then at the end of the charge (about two hundred meters) fire into the sky using old muskets or muzzle-loading rifles. The difficulty of the performance is in synchronizing the movement of the horses during acceleration of the charge, and especially in firing the guns simultaneously so that one single shot is heard. The horses were bred from the Arabian and Barb breeds or a mixture of the two. The fantasia is considered a cultural performance and a kind of martial art; it also symbolizes a strong relationship between the man and the horse, as well as an attachment to tradition. It is historically related to the famous Numidian cavalry charge.
- The film chronicles the daily life of the inhabitants of a coastal village in southern Morocco. Here and like everywhere, the members of this small town are looking for peace and serenity. Out of any historical and temporal context, Ahmed Baidou offers to discover a reality of the Amazigh world through a very committed gaze. The film is mainly composed of three stories which revolve and intersect around the same theme: campaigning against the humiliation and injustice of Amghar and his men.
- Said is a young man in his thirties. He lives in Casablanca with his stepmother Halima. Halima, separated from the young man's father, is opposed to Said's relationship with his colleague Hayat. Unbeknownst to his stepmother, Said decides to join Hayat. However, tired of his hesitations, she ends up abandoning him for another man.