International Film Festival Of Marrakech
Competition 2001
FEATURE FILMS
Adanggaman
By Roger Gnoan M’Bala
Côte d’Ivoire - 2000 - 90mn
The action takes place in the 17th centry. The African Chief of the village is intent on having his son Osei marry the daughter of a rich family despite his loving anotherwoman. Unable to love the bride-to-be, he decides to flee from the village...
C’est la vie
By babak Shokrian
France - 2001 - 113mn
Dimitri, 49 year-old, is confined into a place called "The House", which welcomes people who are past and beyond traditiona medecine. There, he meets Suzan, a voluntary helper dedicated to accompanying to their last terminaly-ill patients..
La comunidad
By Alex de la Iglesia
Espagne - 2000 - 105mn
Julia, awoman in her forties, is a real-estate agent. after she incidently comes upon three hundred million pesetas, hidden in the flat of a man who has just died, she is left but with one choice: face the anger of the very peculiar community of neighbours, led by an unscrupulous doorman who has no intention of letting her leave the building with nice little pack of money.
Eu, tu, eles
By Audrucha Waddington
Bresil - 2000 - 102mn
Darlene, taking her baby along, had hopedto leave her countryside-life for a wedding that never happened. Three years laters, an unwed mother, she returns home: a Brazilian small, sun-beaten town where time is but a meaningless notion.
Inch’Allah Dimanche
By Yamina Benguigui
France - 2001 - 98mn
In the early 60’s, straight from her native Algeria. Zouina arrives with her three children in French village in Picardie. she’s come to reunite with her husband Ahmed, whom she has hardly seen in the ten years since he moved to picardie to work...
Mirror image
By Ya-chuan hisao
Taiwan - 2000 - 82mn
Tree months ago, a car accident had drastically changed Tung-Ching’s life. Seeing that his injuries had erased his left hand life-lines, a nurse had warned the young man that his life would no longer be ruled by fate but by pure chance. When, three months later, Tung-Chin’s fother suffers a stroke and gets hospitalized, Tung-Ching has to work daily at the family pawn-shop...
Mona Saber
By Abdelhai Laraki
Maroc - 2001 - 92mn
Mona, a young French woman learns that his real fother is a Moroccan man. With some trails of memories: his name Mohamed saber, a black and white photo and a love letter which has not read, or badly read in another time, and which is read again to day, Mona goes to the Morocco to look for his man she has never known.
The Unsaid
By Tom Mc Loughlin
Etats-Unis - 2001 - 104mn
Despite his being psychologist, Doctor Michael Huntercould not prevent his son Kyle from commiting suicide. Year after the drama, one of his formestudents approaches him to look into Tommy'scase, an adolescent who eludes all forms of analysis and baffle all those attempting to understand his psychological profil.
The adolescent turns out to be an extremely fascinating case, Kyle. Through his deepty traumatic past presentmany analogies with his son’s Kyle...
Art of love
By Said Niciri
Maroc - USA - 2002 - 15mn
Spencer is a little boy with a gift for drawing. He has a lovely playmate named Veronica. As days go by, this childhood friendship turns into passionate love.
As Mulheres Choradeiras
By Jorane Castro
France-Bresil - 2000 - 15mn
Tree old ladies, hired mournes who are much appreciate for their professionalisme, make the most of their talents in an Amozinian village. when a body vanishes after some funerals, they suddently become the butt of all suspicions.
Bintou
By Fanta Régina Nacro
France-Zimbabwe-Burkina Fasso - 2001 - 31mn
Bintou, a mother of three who lives in Ouagandougou, decides one day against her husband’s opinion to send their daughter to school. But first, she has to make some money for it.
Upon a friend’s advice, she starts a small millet-seeds shop .
By Roger Gnoan M’Bala
Côte d’Ivoire - 2000 - 90mn
The action takes place in the 17th centry. The African Chief of the village is intent on having his son Osei marry the daughter of a rich family despite his loving anotherwoman. Unable to love the bride-to-be, he decides to flee from the village...
C’est la vie
By babak Shokrian
France - 2001 - 113mn
Dimitri, 49 year-old, is confined into a place called "The House", which welcomes people who are past and beyond traditiona medecine. There, he meets Suzan, a voluntary helper dedicated to accompanying to their last terminaly-ill patients..
La comunidad
By Alex de la Iglesia
Espagne - 2000 - 105mn
Julia, awoman in her forties, is a real-estate agent. after she incidently comes upon three hundred million pesetas, hidden in the flat of a man who has just died, she is left but with one choice: face the anger of the very peculiar community of neighbours, led by an unscrupulous doorman who has no intention of letting her leave the building with nice little pack of money.
Eu, tu, eles
By Audrucha Waddington
Bresil - 2000 - 102mn
Darlene, taking her baby along, had hopedto leave her countryside-life for a wedding that never happened. Three years laters, an unwed mother, she returns home: a Brazilian small, sun-beaten town where time is but a meaningless notion.
Inch’Allah Dimanche
By Yamina Benguigui
France - 2001 - 98mn
In the early 60’s, straight from her native Algeria. Zouina arrives with her three children in French village in Picardie. she’s come to reunite with her husband Ahmed, whom she has hardly seen in the ten years since he moved to picardie to work...
Mirror image
By Ya-chuan hisao
Taiwan - 2000 - 82mn
Tree months ago, a car accident had drastically changed Tung-Ching’s life. Seeing that his injuries had erased his left hand life-lines, a nurse had warned the young man that his life would no longer be ruled by fate but by pure chance. When, three months later, Tung-Chin’s fother suffers a stroke and gets hospitalized, Tung-Ching has to work daily at the family pawn-shop...
Mona Saber
By Abdelhai Laraki
Maroc - 2001 - 92mn
Mona, a young French woman learns that his real fother is a Moroccan man. With some trails of memories: his name Mohamed saber, a black and white photo and a love letter which has not read, or badly read in another time, and which is read again to day, Mona goes to the Morocco to look for his man she has never known.
The Unsaid
By Tom Mc Loughlin
Etats-Unis - 2001 - 104mn
Despite his being psychologist, Doctor Michael Huntercould not prevent his son Kyle from commiting suicide. Year after the drama, one of his formestudents approaches him to look into Tommy'scase, an adolescent who eludes all forms of analysis and baffle all those attempting to understand his psychological profil.
The adolescent turns out to be an extremely fascinating case, Kyle. Through his deepty traumatic past presentmany analogies with his son’s Kyle...
SHORT FILMS
Art of love
By Said Niciri
Maroc - USA - 2002 - 15mn
Spencer is a little boy with a gift for drawing. He has a lovely playmate named Veronica. As days go by, this childhood friendship turns into passionate love.
As Mulheres Choradeiras
By Jorane Castro
France-Bresil - 2000 - 15mn
Tree old ladies, hired mournes who are much appreciate for their professionalisme, make the most of their talents in an Amozinian village. when a body vanishes after some funerals, they suddently become the butt of all suspicions.
Bintou
By Fanta Régina Nacro
France-Zimbabwe-Burkina Fasso - 2001 - 31mn
Bintou, a mother of three who lives in Ouagandougou, decides one day against her husband’s opinion to send their daughter to school. But first, she has to make some money for it.
Upon a friend’s advice, she starts a small millet-seeds shop .
ce qui compte pour Matilde
By Stephanie Murat
France - 2001 - 09mn
Matild has a lunar personality. she dreams of being free. She even thinks she is. She is all about, dreaming, dancing, signing. She hates bothe rules and codes.
Unfortunatly, the word we all shar dictates its coded rules. Rules no one escapes from.
Les cimètres de miséricordes
By Ali Tahiri
Maroc - 2000 - 07mn
A water carrier who sells his duties to the inhabitants of Derb El Foukara is confronted by a problem, which theatens his only on source of life...
Elle pleure pas
By Steve suissa
France - 2001 - 11mn
A young mother discovers the body of her child, tabbed 17 times. she is taken into police custody. During 72 hours, she is interrogated, humiliated, ill-treated. This shattered woman shows no reaction, no tears. The inspector in charge of the case is convinced she did it.
