International Film Festival Of Marrakech
Competition 2004
El crimen ferpecto
By Alex de la Iglesia
Spain - 2004 - 1h45
Rafael is a Don Juan-type who works in the women's section of the department store where he was born. He seems to have time to wine and dine (and much more) all of his female co-workers, except for the less attractive Lourdes. His greatest ambition is to be the manager of the floor where he works; for this job, he must compete against Don Antonio...
100 KM
By Pablo José Meza
Argentine/France - 2004 - 1h33
A small town, 100 km away from the city of Buenos Aires. A small town with its idiosyncrasy, its lies, its secrets, its habits. A town that dreams about the country's capital city. A place lost in time. Esteban, Matias, Alejo, Damian and Guido were born in this small village 13 years ago. They have been friends ever since and together, they spend monotonous summer afternoons sitting on the entrance step of a lady's hair saloon. Anxious, restless, impatient for anything to change, they go through the most confusing period of their lives: going from childhood to adolescence.
Vento di terra
By Vincenzo Marra
Italy - 2004 - 1h30
Eighteen-year-old Enzo lives with his family in Secondigliano, a poor suburb of Napl es. His father's sudden death leaves the boy with the difficult task of caring for his mother and sister. Soon, Enzo finds his path crossed by a series of circumstances and vicissitudes which continually puts his integrity to the test. However his determination and courage finally prevail and his family regains the dignity it had seemingly lost for good.
Moolade By Ousmane Sembene
Sénégal/France - 2004 - 2h
Collé Gallo Ardo Sy, a circumcised woman had managed to help her only daughter escape from the ritual of purification organized every seven years. This year, four young girls have fled from the village to escape from excision and are seeking protection, "Moolaade", from Collé. The village is on a boil. Two kinds of values are confronting each other: the right to protection and the attachment in tradition symbolized by excision.
Lila dit ca
By Ziad Doueiri
France - 2004 -1h29
He has never talked to anyone about "it". She has never found anyone she wants to talk about "it" with. All she thinks about is him; and that she must talk about "it" with him if she wants his love. She's sixteen; he's nineteen.
Down to the bone
By Debra Granik
Etats-unis - 2004 - 1h41
In an upstate New York town, Irene struggles to raise two sons, keep her stale marriage together and manage a secret cocaine habit. Isolated by the strip malls and dying small towns that define the area, Irene's not sure when she went from high school partying to skimming off the grocery money to supply her growing habit. Desperate to alter her life, she puts herself in rehab, hoping that she can turn around the world she has made with her husband...
Jiang Hu
By Wong Ching Po
Hong Kong - 2004 - 1h23
When Triad leader Hung Yuan's wife gives birth to a baby boy, Hung Yuan considers leaving the world of the gangsters. Despite the fact that he is not sure of his decision, word gets out fast and now, a brutal war begins in "Jiang Hu" (the Chinese term for mafia world)...
Electric Shadows
By Wiao Jiang
China - 2004 - 1h35
Ling Ling is born during an outdoor movie screening near the end of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Her mother, whose life and singing career are destroyed by the unplanned pregnancy, considers suicide, but stops herself by finding strength and inspiration in the heroines of her favourite films. An outcast, Ling Ling meets and befriends Little Bing, the son of an abusive father.
NINA
By Heitor Dhalia
Brasil - 2004 - 1h23
Nina, a young girl of great sensitivity and a fragile psyche, struggles to survive in a hostile metropolis. In the midst of her drawings she makes everywhere and the fast pace of the São Paulo electronic music scene, Nina delves into the haunted depths of her subconscious until she finds herself involved in a crime.
Svoi
By Dimitri Meskhiyev
Russia - 2004 - 1h51
In August of 1941, as the Nazis advance on the Eastern front, a motley trio of Russian soldiers escapes while on a forced march to a detention camp. Tolya, a security officer, is posing as a civilian to avoid certain execution; Lifshits is a Jewish politico; and Mitya is a sniper from the region. Upon their escape, the three head for the property owned by Mitya's father, where they hope to take refuge from the Germans.
Lapsia ja aikuisia
By Aleksi Salmenpera
Finland - 2004 - 1h40
Venla works as a psychologist at a fertility clinic. She dreams of having a child with her long-term boyfriend Antero. What she doesn't know is that he's strictly against the idea. When Antero's secret vasectomy seriously reduces her options, her mind turns to the storeroom at work, housing millions of sperm samples lying dormant in liquid nitrogen. He is tall with brown hair and blue eyes. That's all that she knows about the future father...
Sideways
By Alexander Payne
USA - 2004 - 2h04
Miles, an un-recovered divorcé and would-be novelist with a wine fixation, decides to gift his old college buddy and washed-up actor Jack with a celebratory trip to the vineyards of the Central Coast the week before Jack's wedding.
The overture
By Itthi-Sunthom Wichailak
Thaïland - 2004 - 1h44
Sorn comes from a family of musicians and his natural talent requires little training. He plays the xylophone, from which he coaxes celestial rhythms. While Sorn is still a child, his older brother is beaten to death by rival musicians and the xylophone is forbidden in his family. Still, Sorn disobeys his father's orders and plays at night in secret in an abandoned temple...
Tenja
By Hassan Legzouli
Morocco - 2004 - 1h20
Nordine is a second generation Moroccan living in the North of France. His father, unlike other countrymen, never returned home. Now that he is dead, Nordine takes his father's body to Morocco since his last will was to be buried in his homeland. En route, he meets Mimoun, a clownish character from Tanger, and Nora, a kept woman embarking on a new life…
By Alex de la Iglesia
Spain - 2004 - 1h45
Rafael is a Don Juan-type who works in the women's section of the department store where he was born. He seems to have time to wine and dine (and much more) all of his female co-workers, except for the less attractive Lourdes. His greatest ambition is to be the manager of the floor where he works; for this job, he must compete against Don Antonio...
100 KM
By Pablo José Meza
Argentine/France - 2004 - 1h33
A small town, 100 km away from the city of Buenos Aires. A small town with its idiosyncrasy, its lies, its secrets, its habits. A town that dreams about the country's capital city. A place lost in time. Esteban, Matias, Alejo, Damian and Guido were born in this small village 13 years ago. They have been friends ever since and together, they spend monotonous summer afternoons sitting on the entrance step of a lady's hair saloon. Anxious, restless, impatient for anything to change, they go through the most confusing period of their lives: going from childhood to adolescence.
Vento di terra
By Vincenzo Marra
Italy - 2004 - 1h30
Eighteen-year-old Enzo lives with his family in Secondigliano, a poor suburb of Napl es. His father's sudden death leaves the boy with the difficult task of caring for his mother and sister. Soon, Enzo finds his path crossed by a series of circumstances and vicissitudes which continually puts his integrity to the test. However his determination and courage finally prevail and his family regains the dignity it had seemingly lost for good.
Moolade By Ousmane Sembene
Sénégal/France - 2004 - 2h
Collé Gallo Ardo Sy, a circumcised woman had managed to help her only daughter escape from the ritual of purification organized every seven years. This year, four young girls have fled from the village to escape from excision and are seeking protection, "Moolaade", from Collé. The village is on a boil. Two kinds of values are confronting each other: the right to protection and the attachment in tradition symbolized by excision.
Lila dit ca
By Ziad Doueiri
France - 2004 -1h29
He has never talked to anyone about "it". She has never found anyone she wants to talk about "it" with. All she thinks about is him; and that she must talk about "it" with him if she wants his love. She's sixteen; he's nineteen.
Down to the bone
By Debra Granik
Etats-unis - 2004 - 1h41
In an upstate New York town, Irene struggles to raise two sons, keep her stale marriage together and manage a secret cocaine habit. Isolated by the strip malls and dying small towns that define the area, Irene's not sure when she went from high school partying to skimming off the grocery money to supply her growing habit. Desperate to alter her life, she puts herself in rehab, hoping that she can turn around the world she has made with her husband...
Jiang Hu
By Wong Ching Po
Hong Kong - 2004 - 1h23
When Triad leader Hung Yuan's wife gives birth to a baby boy, Hung Yuan considers leaving the world of the gangsters. Despite the fact that he is not sure of his decision, word gets out fast and now, a brutal war begins in "Jiang Hu" (the Chinese term for mafia world)...
Electric Shadows
By Wiao Jiang
China - 2004 - 1h35
Ling Ling is born during an outdoor movie screening near the end of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Her mother, whose life and singing career are destroyed by the unplanned pregnancy, considers suicide, but stops herself by finding strength and inspiration in the heroines of her favourite films. An outcast, Ling Ling meets and befriends Little Bing, the son of an abusive father.
NINA
By Heitor Dhalia
Brasil - 2004 - 1h23
Nina, a young girl of great sensitivity and a fragile psyche, struggles to survive in a hostile metropolis. In the midst of her drawings she makes everywhere and the fast pace of the São Paulo electronic music scene, Nina delves into the haunted depths of her subconscious until she finds herself involved in a crime.
Svoi
By Dimitri Meskhiyev
Russia - 2004 - 1h51
In August of 1941, as the Nazis advance on the Eastern front, a motley trio of Russian soldiers escapes while on a forced march to a detention camp. Tolya, a security officer, is posing as a civilian to avoid certain execution; Lifshits is a Jewish politico; and Mitya is a sniper from the region. Upon their escape, the three head for the property owned by Mitya's father, where they hope to take refuge from the Germans.
Lapsia ja aikuisia
By Aleksi Salmenpera
Finland - 2004 - 1h40
Venla works as a psychologist at a fertility clinic. She dreams of having a child with her long-term boyfriend Antero. What she doesn't know is that he's strictly against the idea. When Antero's secret vasectomy seriously reduces her options, her mind turns to the storeroom at work, housing millions of sperm samples lying dormant in liquid nitrogen. He is tall with brown hair and blue eyes. That's all that she knows about the future father...
Sideways
By Alexander Payne
USA - 2004 - 2h04
Miles, an un-recovered divorcé and would-be novelist with a wine fixation, decides to gift his old college buddy and washed-up actor Jack with a celebratory trip to the vineyards of the Central Coast the week before Jack's wedding.
The overture
By Itthi-Sunthom Wichailak
Thaïland - 2004 - 1h44
Sorn comes from a family of musicians and his natural talent requires little training. He plays the xylophone, from which he coaxes celestial rhythms. While Sorn is still a child, his older brother is beaten to death by rival musicians and the xylophone is forbidden in his family. Still, Sorn disobeys his father's orders and plays at night in secret in an abandoned temple...
Tenja
By Hassan Legzouli
Morocco - 2004 - 1h20
Nordine is a second generation Moroccan living in the North of France. His father, unlike other countrymen, never returned home. Now that he is dead, Nordine takes his father's body to Morocco since his last will was to be buried in his homeland. En route, he meets Mimoun, a clownish character from Tanger, and Nora, a kept woman embarking on a new life…
