Videoteca

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Everybody Loves Touda 2024 star_border 7.5
Touda is a sheikha (traditional singer and dancer) who performs in dingy bars to make ends meet. But Touda has a passion. She struggles for her art to be recognized and to ensure a better future for her deaf-and-mute son Yassine.

The Blue Caftan 2023 star_border 7.3
Halim has been married to Mina for a long time, with whom he runs a traditional caftan store in the medina (old town) of Salé, Morocco. The couple has always lived with Halim's secret – his homosexuality – about which he has learned to keep quiet. However, Mina's illness and the arrival of a young apprentice upsets this balance. United in their love, each will help the other face his fears.

Casablanca Beats 2021 star_border 4.5
When a rapper-turned-teacher brings hip-hop to a community center in an impoverished area of Casablanca, his tough methods spark an explosion of talent.

Adam 2019 star_border 6.9
Abla runs a modest local bakery from her home in Casablanca where she lives alone with her 8-year-old daughter Warda. Their routine of housework and homework is interrupted one day by a knock on the door. It is Samia, a young woman looking for a job and a roof over her head. The little girl is immediately taken with the newcomer, but her mother initially refuses to allow a pregnant stranger into their home. Gradually, however, Abla's resolve softens and Samia's arrival begins to offer all of them the prospect of a new life.

Wa Drari 2019 star_border 8.5
For 8 months, the director, who signs with this documentary her first film, knew how to be accepted within the group Shayfeen. For the under thirty, Shayfeen is one of the figures of the Moroccan Rap scene. Shobee and Small X, two young people with complicated family lives, meet in Safi in 2006. Children of the new millennium, they have the verb and easy melody. Without makeup, with discretion and attention to detail, the camera of Fatim Zahra Bencherki reveals, through them, a complex youth, surprising, who sometimes feels "unloved" and is often a mirror of our contradictions.

Razzia 2017 star_border 6.8
Morocco, from the past to the present. Five people who are connected to each other – Abdallah, Salima, Joe, Hakim, and Inès – without realizing it. Different faces, different struggles, but one same breath. One city, Casablanca as a fragment of reality, as the myth of a film entirely shot in Hollywood studios, which reality has come back to claim.

Zwaj El Waqt 2017
Zwaj El Waqt explores the themes of love and marriage in Morocco. Told through the testimonies of diverse couples, it tackles the issues of relationships, social media, control and sexuality in a conservative society that still struggles to discuss freely about those topics.

Lost in agadir 2017
Hakim is an honest police officer deeply devoted to his daughter, finding great joy and happiness in her company. One day, his daughter is kidnapped. Hakim does everything in his power to find her, set her free, and bring her kidnappers to justice.

All Three of Us 2015 star_border 7.5
An Iranian family survives the shah and the ayatollah and moves to France. This story follows the family through it all. Despite the politics, revolution, prison, beatings, assassinations and suicides this is a comedy.

Much Loved 2015 star_border 6
A social drama about four marginalized prostitutes in Marrakech and their complex relations with their families and society at large.

Horses of God 2013 star_border 7.3
The film follows two brothers over the course of a decade. While they begin as kids in search of thrills in the sprawling slums of Morocco’s Sidi Moumen, we witness their gradual, and ultimately shocking, radicalisation.

Mirages 2011 star_border 4.8
Five people with contrasting profiles compete for a position within Matsuika, a multinational corporation recently set up in Morocco. Following an interview with the C.E.O., they are advised to undertake a mysterious test in a secret location. It will determine who will hold the position. All five applicants accept and are led into a distressing bus with no windows. After endless driving, an accident occurs with the candidates trapped in the wreck. Thanks to a joint effort, they manage to evacuate the bus only to find themselves lost in the desert with their driver nowhere to be found. They start to wander, questioning the nature of the accident. Is it part of the test? Despite their will to survive and an urge to find clues, mirages of their most intimate fears begin to haunt them.

My Land 2011
"My land" gives voice to old Palestinian refugees who fled in 1948 without ever returning to their land, and who have been living in camps in Lebanon for more than 60 years.

Whatever Lola wants 2007 star_border 6.3
A Brooklyn postal worker follows her Egyptian boyfriend to Cairo where she takes belly-dancing lessons from a legendary but disgraced Egyptian dancer.

The People of the Clock 2007
A musician whose career never took off decides one day to start a real career as an artist.

Bone of Iron 2006
Three close friends need to find 120 Dirhams to pay for their friend's bus pass so he doesn't drop out of college.. but are confronted with harsh reality. The cry of despair drives them to the ultimate act: taking a bus hostage.

Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets 2000 star_border 6.6
Ali, Kwita, Omar and Boubker are street kids. The daily dose of glue sniffing represents their only escape from reality. Since they left Dib and his gang, they have been living on the portside of Casablanca. They live in constant fear of Dib's revenge. Ali wants to become a sailor - when he was living with his mother, a prostitute, he used to listen to a fairy tale about the sailor who discovered the miracle island with two suns. Instead of finding his island in the dream, Ali and his friends are confronted with Dib's gang. Matters are getting serious.

On the Wire Release date not available
Hajar and Badr are two children who grew up on the streets, an experience that left an indelible mark on them. At 10 years old, Hajar already replaces her deceased mother and takes care of her younger sister. Badr, on the other hand, grew up with his grandfather, a Gnaoua musician, traveling through the city's streets. The two children meet in a circus school, a demanding place that forces them to undergo a radical transformation. They begin a new life where the only path forward is... on a tightrope.

Ana Bidaoui 2023
Through interviews with historians, architects, archaeologists and local organizations, this documentary series describes the history of Casablanca, from its origins to the present day.

Souhlifa 2018
The story of the comedy series “Souhalifa” begins when Al-Madani receives a call from his sister asking him to take care of her seven-year-old daughter, Israa. At that time, he did not know that the newcomer would turn his life upside down and break the monotony and silence of his home. “Souhalifa,” as he likes to call her, will make his life full of pranks and adventures, which will force him to change his entire lifestyle.