The script centres on Ze who’s in his last year of high school; he is 17 years old and a shaman. One day he meets Marla, a delicate but distrustful young woman, who has come to visit Ze’s spirit because of her illness. For Ze, it is love at first sight. When Marla rejects his affection, Ze confronts for the first time the limits of spirituality, love and his own evolution… Ze ...
Floating In The Vacuum is the third feature from Tunisian director Mohamed Ben Attia, known for Hedi that won the best first film and best actor prizes in Berlin in 2016 and Dear Son that premiered at the Director’s Fortnight in Cannes in 2018. The film is produced by Tunisia’s Nomadis Image with Belgium’s Les Films du Fleuve and France’s Tanit Films. It is about a man fresh ou...
Working as a domestic helper, Nargis looks everywhere to find out whether her husband Manzoor, who was arrested after joining the armed rebellion, is dead or alive. She is fired when her employer learns that Manzoor is a militant. She returns to her hometown, and Yaseen, who has feelings for her, offers help. Then one day, Manzoor comes home, and the three of them experience su...
Les Meutes’ story is set in the working-class suburbs of Casablanca where father and son Hassan and Issam try to get by on a day-to-day basis, involving themselves in a string of petty dealings for the local mob. One evening, a man they were supposed to kidnap dies accidentally in their car. Hassan and Issam find themselves with a body they need to get rid of. Thus begins a lon...
Traffic rushes by as if nothing has happened. But beside the road, the rubble is smoldering, and firefighting helicopters are circling overhead. Ten minutes in, this is the first specific image we see of the devastating explosion that took place on 4 August 2020 at the Port of Beirut. Until this point, its presence in the film has been indirect—a man smoking beside a broken win...