Nisrin Erradi

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Casablanca, Morocco. A trio of women, with the police on their tail, embarks on a long escape that takes them across the rugged red terrain and flower-filled valleys of the Atlas to finally reach the Atlantic coast.

Hayat is released after serving a long prison sentence. She returns to her hometown in northern Morocco, where she finds herself faced with a brother who refuses to welcome her for fear of shame. Hayat merely wishes to see her son so she can explain the truth to him. She meets Amal, who works in a fruit factory and takes care of Houda, her sister who is two years her junior and suffers from a severe disability. The courage and strength of these three women drives them forward in the face of exclusion, exploitation and marginalization.

Touda is a Sheikha, a traditional Moroccan singer. Performing in the bars of her provincial town under the gaze of men, she plans to leave for the lights of Casablanca in search of recognition and to ensure a better future for her deaf-mute son.

An old man meets a eccentric young man in a police cell who claims that he comes from a remote galaxy in search of the only thing that could help him to save his endangered planet and which is known only to the inhabitants of Planet Earth...

In the Medina of Casablanca, Thami, a young man from a conservative family with a lineage of honourable Koranic lawyers, incenses his father as he decides to enter the profession of butchery. Whilst handling the meats, he soon discovers another taboo passion: women and love. “Love in the Medina” is about a journey of initiation, a quest for freedom and Thami’s revolution of romance in ever-changing Morocco.

A Moroccan wedding ceremony - the bride, deeply veiled, is entrusted to the groom. While the musicians play and the women emit traditional trilling sounds, the couple retreats to the unknown realms of their shared bedroom. There, a bizarre drama unfolds while the wedding party waits for the bloody linen cloth.

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.

Malak, a teen girl, discovers she's pregnant. Rejected by the baby's dad, she faces a world that rejects her for being a single mum.

A tragicomic story of several characters caught in a historic event, the cancellation of the sheep Aid in 1996: Lofti the amnesic, Mounir who is rejected by the family of the woman he wans to marry, a child who can't understand this cancellation and a person who needs help to commit suicide.

Hassan struggles to make a living as a fisherman in a small coastal town, where the sea provides less each year. Isolated by his faith, his only moments of tenderness are with single mother Latifah and her young daughter. When an old friend offers a dangerous alternative, Hassan becomes trapped between judgement and action.

Hasna and Meriem leave their native Morocco to work a season picking strawberries in Spain, until abuse and harassment shatter their hopes. Supported by a Spanish lawyer, they must decide whether to speak out against a powerful system.

As the famous lawyer Saad El Ghali lives a quiet life with his family, things take a shocking turn, the father tries hard to keep his family together, despite their vengeance-driven stories and their psychological conflicts and traumas.

The story chronicles the arduous journey of the rural girl Mariam who struggles in order to fulfill her dream of becoming a famous singer.