International Film Festival Of Marrakech Journey trough moroccan cinema 2004
LONGS FILMS :
Vaincre pour vivre (Struggle for life)
By Mohamed Tazi et Ahmed Mesnaoui
Morocco - 1968 - 105 mn
Carpenter, and a carpenter's son, Karim decides one day to leave his village in the Rif and to go to casablanca, the big city where he should struggle to live, and later express himself...
Soleil de printemps (Spring sun)
By Latif Lahlou
Morocco - 1969 - 86 mn
It is the story of an ordinary man from the countryside, a modest employee in Casablanca who cannot get adapted to the big city's life...
Traces (Marks)
By Hamid Bennani
Morocco - 1970 - 100 mn
It is the story of Messaoud, a rebellious young man, oppressed by both his family and by the sclerotic society.
O Les jours (O! Days)
By Ahmed Maânouni
Moroocco - 2000 - 86 mn
Abdelwahed, a young fellah, who dreams of wealth and goes againt traditions. Halima, his mother, a very strong charcter, dreads letting go her eldest son, who is the head of the family since his father's death...
Al kanfoudi
By Nabyl Lahlou
Morocco - 1978 - 86 mn
Hamid Kanfoudi, a conducter, dreams that he wins on the lottery of the poor...
Le coiffeur du quartier des pauvres (The hairdresser of the poor neighboorhood)
By Mohammed Reggab
Morocco - 1982 - 105 mn
Among people living in a popular neighborhood in Casablanca, there is a hairdresser who accepts his fate. His best friend never stops teaching him that struggle and resistence are the only qualities of a worthy man.
Titre provisoire (Provisionally title)
By Mustapha Derkaoui
Morocco - 1984 - 107 mn
A film that describes the manner in which someone, harassed by death, learns to suffer.
Hadda
By Mohammed Aboulouakar
Morocco - 1984 - 111 mn
Hamid, a young man who returns to his native village in order to get back his fortune. His uncle, Hadj Omar, will try to make failure of the company of the young heir in order to continue to enjoy this fortune. Hamid rapes Hadda, who undergoes her fate, she is accompanied by Aouicha who has a similar fate…
Cauchemar (Nightmare)
By Ahmed Yachfine
Morocco - 1984 - 100 mn
A return to the past through a sleepwalker who live again some adventures that happened in the Forties in Morocco. The dream is more authentic than reality, whose symbol is a key.
Badis
By Mohamed Abderrahman Tazi
Maroc - 1988 - 92 mn
Each day, a soldier crosses the tombolo that relates Badis to the Rif in order to fill a cistern from the spring. He falls in love with the daughter of an old fisher, who is also loved by the postman and the teacher who has just arrived to the village.
Un amour à casablanca (A love story in Casablanca)
By Abdelkader Lagtaa
Maroc - 1991 - 90 mn
Saloua, a young pupil confronted to her father's severity, she clings to Jalil, an 50 year old man, and becomes his mistress.
Frustrated and exhausted of Jalil's behavior, she falls in love with Najib, the young passionate photographer.
Femmes et femmes (Women and women)
By Saàd Chraibi
Morocco - 1998 - 98 mn
In 1997 in Morocco, four women struggle to prove their status, their place in the society, each one on her manner... At work against jealousy.
Adieu forain (Goodbye carnival)
By Daoud Aoulad syad
Morocco - 1998 - 90 mn
The film tells the story of three destinies related to each other by their common itineraries : That of Rabii with his dreams; that of Kecem, who is sick and who flees a dark past that he cannot forget; finally that of his only son Larbi, an ex-boxer, an ex-convict, a violent and mythomaniac who ends up in loneliness.
Les amis d'hier (Friends of the yesterday)
By Hassan Benjelloun
Morocco - 1998 - 95 mn
Friends of Yesterday is a tale that takes us in a recent story in order to exorcize demons of a long and intolerable thirst of confessions.
Ruses de femmes
By Farida Benlyazid
Morocco - 1999 - 90mn
Lalla Aïcha is the daughter of a rich merchant, who has always had all that she wants... One day she meets the king's son on the terrace where she wets her basil, this meeting changes completely her life.
Ali Zaoua
By Nabyl Ayouch
Morocco - 1999 - 105 mn
Ali, Kouita, Omar and Boubker are friends who met in street. Beyond all their daily problems, an indestructible friendship relates them. Ali is killed in a fight between rival bands. Since that day, these three friends have the same aim, offering him the funeral he deserves… A prince's funeral.
Elle est diabétique, hypertendue et elle refuse de mourir
(She Is Diabetic, Hypertensive, and she refuses to Die)
By Hakim Noury
Morocco - 2000 - 85 mn
A situation comedy in which Hamid is divided between his wife Souad, his mistress Leila and his mother-in-law Hajja.
Histoire d’une rose (Story of a rose)
By Abdelmajid R’chich
Morocco - 2000 - 85 mn
Married to Chaoui, Malika cannot forget Abdellah, her first teen-age love. Abdellah is liberated from prison. Tenting to join him, Malika wants to divorce, but her husband refuses.
Ali, Rabia et les autres (Ali, Rabia and others)
By Ahmed Boulane
Morocco - 2000 - 85 mn
Ali, implicated against his will in a political affair, spends twenty years in prison for murder. After his release, everything is different, his friends are separated, everyone has his own life...
L’homme qui brodait des secrets (The Man who embroidered Secrets)
By Omar Chraibi
Morocco - 2000 - 120 mn
Naji, a young university teacher, enamoured by poetry discovers a manuscript of a poet, dead without trace... he decides to do him justice... While discovering the poet's house, Naji decides to restore it.
SHORT FILMS :
Le fils maudit (The damned son)
By Mohamed Ousfour
Morocco - 1958 - 50 mn
A damned son has received his first deliquency lessons since his childhood because of his parents' negligence. He becomes a dangerous criminal whose sole aim is money. His acts lead him to crime.
Le mirage (The mirage)
By Ahmed Bouanani
Morocco - 1979 - 100 mn
A man discovers money in a flour bag. It is the beginning of a story between past and future, between silence and cry, and that ends like an disillusion.
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