Morocco

The Message

The Message

The Message Al-Risalah   Lebanon, Libya, Kuwait, Morocco, UK / 1976 / English and Arabic dialogue with English subtitles / 181 min The Message is an epic classic about the birth of Islam set in the 7th century in Mecca. The powerful leaders are in conflict with...

Aya Goes To the Beach

Aya Goes To the Beach

Aya Goes To the Beach Aya wal bahr   NORDIC PREMIERE Morocco / 2015 / Arabic dialogue with English subtitles / 17 min Aya is ten years old and works as a maid in a small house in Casablanca. She dreams of a different life were she isn’t locked away from the world...

Zero

Zero

Zero   Morocco / 2012 / Arabic dialogue with English subtitles / 110 minutes Amine Bertale, nicknamed ”Zero” is a police officer in his mid thirties, pacing the streets of Casablanca surrounded by loss and futility and the corruption of everyone around him. He is...

Call of Trung

Call of Trung

Call of Trung L’Appel de Trung   Morocco / 2015 / Arabic and Vietnamese dialogue with English subtitles / 20 minutes An emotionally vibrating story of a loving couple who met during the Indochina war. They live together in the space between both the call of the...

The Blind Orchestra

The Blind Orchestra

The Blind Orchestra L'orchestre des aveugles   Morocco, France / 2015 / Arabic and French dialogue with English subtitles / 110 min In the early years of the reign of Hassan II, Houcine, a fan of the new king is the director of a popular orchestra and the proud...

Short Life

Short Life

Short Life Courte Vie   Morocco / 2010 / Arabic dialogue with English subtitles / 16 minutes Zhar is an unfortunate young man, whose mother died in childbirth. Short Life presentes various stages of Zhars life where his misfortune is always present and loss of...

Raja Bent El Mellah

Raja Bent El Mellah

Raja Bent El Mellah     Morocco / 2016 / Arabic and French dialogue with English subtitles / 70 min Najat, a young Moroccan woman, once met the French director Jacques Doillon and was casted in his film Raja for which she won the awards of Best Actress at...

Of Blood and Water

Of Blood and Water

Of Blood and Water   NORDIC PREMIERE Morocco / 2014 / Arabic dialogue with English subtitles / 15 min The film portraits the Moroccan understanding of water and blood is interpreted by a Moroccan family - the water symbolizes the source of life and blood the...

Change – Jerusalem echoes navigator

Change – Jerusalem echoes navigator

Change – Jerusalem echoes navigator   NORDIC PREMIERE Morocco / 2012 / Arabic dialogue with English subtitles / 86 min “Change – Jerusalem echoes navigator” follows the destiny of the Jewish communities that left the Berber village of Tinghir in Morocco in the...

Aida

Aida

Aida   NORDIC PREMIERE Morocco / 2015 / Arabic and French dialogue with English subtitles / 107 min Aida, a Jewish University professor of Moroccan origin who lives in Paris finds out that she’s suffering from cancer. She returns to her country of birth seeking...

The Man with the Dog

The Man with the Dog

The Man with the Dog Moul Lkelb   Palestine / 2015 / Arabic, English and Hebrew dialogue with English subtitles / 93 minutes Youssef lives as a secluded outcast. His sole friend is his dog, Chagadai. One evening at the beach, the dog disapprears. In order to find...

Small Pleasures

Small Pleasures

Small Pleasures Petit Bonheurs   NORDIC PREMIERE Morocco / 2015 / Arabic dialogue with English subtitles / 85 minutes After the death of her father, 17 year-old Noufissa follows her mother to go and live in the mansion of Lalla Amina, the wife of an important...

They are the dogs

They are the dogs

They are the dogs C'est eux les chiens   Morocco, France / 2013 / Arabic and French dialogue with English subtitles / 85 min A TV crew, preparing a program on the February 20 movement - crosses paths with Majhoul, a man who claims to have ”disappeared” for 30...

Crossings

Crossings

Crossings Leila Alaoui   25.9–16.10 2016 / C-salen, Malmö Konsthall Crossings explores the experience of sub-Saharan migrants who embark on the perilous journey to reach the elusive shores of Europe. The three-screen video installation focuses on the collective...

Six and Zero

Six and Zero

Six and Zero   INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE Morocco/ 2015 / No dialogue / 53minutes The beating hear of Casablanca. Six and Zero is a poetic documentary portrait of Casablanca between 6 am and midnight, striving to identify and highlight the different aspects and...

Trances

Trances

Trances El hal Morocco, France / 1981 / Arabic dialogue with English subtitles / 87 min Documentary about the influential Moroccan folk music group Nass El Ghiwane. In the film we meet them in long, mesmerizing concert scenes, during rehearsals and in interviews and...

Oh the Days!

Oh the Days!

Oh the Days! AlyamAlyam Morocco / 1978 / Arabicdialogue with English subtitles / 90 min Following his father’s death, Abdelwahad is expected to provide for his mother and his seven brothers. But faced with the cycle of poverty that rural farmers seem doomed to repeat,...