Monday, May 6, 2024 at 11:24
Madrid – Moroccan cinema will be featured at the 21st Tarifa-Tangier African Film Festival (FCAT), an event which will be held on both sides of the Strait of Gibraltar, from May 24 to June 1.
The feature film competition will offer twelve films, including two representing Morocco, the organizers announced Monday in a press release. These are the feature films “Indivision” by Leïla Kilani and “The Mother of All Lies” by Asmae El Moudir.
Thus, Leïla Kilani will unveil in Spain her new and ”highly anticipated” fiction ”Indivision”, considered a ”caustic, ambitious and formally innovative” work.
It is a story that revolves around two opposing worlds, tackling themes such as ecology, class struggle, the ultra destructive capitalism of real estate developers and a new female generation in Morocco, it is said. .
For her part, Asmae El Moudir presents at the FCAT her film ”The Mother of All Lies”, with which she won the prize for best direction in the ”un certain regard” section at Cannes, as well as the ‘Golden Eye for best documentary for its ”original, fascinating, corrosive and moving look at a past full of questions”.
”In Casablanca, the young filmmaker attempts to reveal, through this documentary, the lies surrounding her family and recreates her own story using a model of the neighborhood of her childhood and figurines of each of her loved ones’ ‘, adds the press release.
In the selection of short films, Morocco is represented by ”Bye Bye Benz Benz”, a comedy directed by Mamoun Rtal Bennani, in collaboration with Jules Rouffio, describing the relationship between a taxi driver and his Mercedes Benz.
