Section: Long Narrative
Country: Morocco
Production Year: 2018
Duration: 102 min
Cinematography: Luca Coassin
Screenplay: Mohamed Zineddaine, Olivier Bombarda
Editing: Elena Cabria
Cast: Fatima Attif, Mehdi El Arroubi, Ahmed El Moustafid, Nisrine Adam
Contact: [email protected]
Synopsis: 16-year old teenager Abdou lives on the outskirts of Khouribga, a mining town exploiting phosphates. He is helpful and caring, simple and down to earth, incapable of harm, and is anxious to regain the gift of human dignity through learning how to read and write. His adoptive mother Mbarka, a midwife and the neighborhood's healer, protects her privileged status with ways that the laws of obscurantism allow her
